Pharmacist
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Job Description
Position Summary
The Clinical Pharmacist provides medication management services, supports providers in clinical decision making, and helps improve patient outcomes through safe and effective medication use. This role collaborates with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimize medication therapy.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Review medication regimens for safety, effectiveness, interactions, and appropriate dosing.
- Provide medication therapy management (MTM) and patient counseling.
- Identify and help resolve medication-related problems.
- Monitor patients' responses to medication therapy and recommend adjustments to prescribing providers.
- Assist with chronic disease management, including diabetes, hypertension, and other ongoing conditions.
- Support medication reconciliation during care transitions.
- Educate patients about medication adherence, side effects, and proper medication use.
- Collaborate with physicians, nurse practitioners, and other clinical staff.
- Support formulary management, medication safety initiatives, and evidence-based prescribing practices.
- Document clinical interventions and patient care activities in the electronic health record.
- Assist with quality improvement initiatives and compliance with applicable pharmacy regulations.
Minimum Qualifications
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from an accredited institution.
- Active, unrestricted pharmacist license in the state of practice.
- Strong knowledge of pharmacotherapy, drug interactions, and medication safety.
- Excellent communication, clinical assessment, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in ambulatory care, primary care, or clinical pharmacy services.
- Board certification, such as Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP), if applicable.
- Experience managing chronic diseases and working within an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Experience with electronic health records and medication therapy management programs.
Key Responsibilities
Review and optimize medication therapy, counsel and educate patients, monitor treatment outcomes, and recommend adjustments to prescribing providers. Collaborate with the healthcare team on chronic disease management, medication safety, care transitions, documentation, and quality improvement.
Requirements
Requires a PharmD from an accredited institution, an active unrestricted pharmacist license in the state of practice, and strong knowledge of pharmacotherapy, drug interactions, and medication safety. Preferred qualifications include ambulatory or clinical pharmacy experience, chronic disease management experience, interdisciplinary teamwork, electronic health record and medication therapy management experience, and applicable board certification.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Pharmacist Career Context
Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 44% have no call, 68% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Alabama is 88.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Alabama clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Pharmacist at Cahaba Medical Care Foundation a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Pharmacy — ranked against 10,244 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.
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