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Job Description
Staff Pharmacist - Closed Door Pharmacy - Hiring Immediately!
Position Summary
Reporting to the Pharmacist-in-Charge, the Staff Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring the safe, accurate, and effective dispensing of medications while providing clinical oversight, medication verification, and collaborative support to healthcare providers. This role combines clinical decision-making with operational excellence in a fast-paced closed-door pharmacy serving long-term care and assisted living facilities.
Essential Responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Perform clinical review and verification of prescriptions, evaluating appropriateness, interactions, allergies, dosing, renal adjustments, and therapeutic duplications.
- Conduct final medication verification to ensure accuracy and quality.
- Collaborate with prescribers and nursing staff to resolve medication-related issues and optimize therapy.
- Provide drug information and clinical guidance to pharmacy staff and healthcare providers.
- Accept and process verbal medication orders in accordance with applicable regulations.
Operations & Compliance
- Maintain compliance with all federal, state, DEA, and Board of Pharmacy regulations.
- Oversee controlled substance management and documentation.
- Review prescription data entry for accuracy.
- Support workflow to ensure timely medication delivery.
- Perform quality assurance activities and utilize pharmacy automation technology.
Quality & Compounding
- Prepare and oversee sterile and non-sterile compounded medications as needed.
- Participate in continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Maintain an organized, inspection-ready pharmacy.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements
This role requires frequent standing, walking, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 20 pounds. Candidates must possess the visual acuity necessary for accurate medication verification, including close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color differentiation, and the ability to adjust focus. Frequent communication with healthcare professionals, staff, and customers by telephone and in person is required.
Qualifications
- Required
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
- Active pharmacist license in the applicable state
- 1+ years of pharmacist experience
- Strong clinical judgment and attention to detail
- Preferred
- Long-term care pharmacy experience
- Experience with FrameworkLTC, Pyxis MedBank, or similar pharmacy software
Experience with Sterile or Non-sterile Compounding
Retail pharmacists are encouraged to apply. We provide comprehensive training to help experienced retail pharmacists transition successfully into long-term care pharmacy.
Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week
- Rotating weekends (or every third weekend, if applicable)
- Predictable scheduling
- Paid holidays and PTO
- Opportunities for overtime available
- Make the Change You've Been Thinking About.
If you're ready to leave the stress of retail pharmacy behind and join a collaborative healthcare team where your clinical expertise is valued, we'd love to hear from you.
Discover what pharmacy can be in a closed-door long-term care environment where patient care comes first, teamwork is the standard, and work-life balance is more than just a promise.
Key Responsibilities
The Staff Pharmacist is responsible for the safe and accurate dispensing of medications, including clinical review, verification, and collaborative support to healthcare providers. They must also maintain regulatory compliance, manage controlled substances, and oversee sterile and non-sterile compounding operations.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Certifications
Key Skills
Pharmacist Career Context
Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 56% are remote, 36% have no call, 62% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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