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Sentara Health
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Clinical Pharmacist

PharmacistIncludes weekendsNo callFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

City/State

Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift

Third (Nights)

Overview

  • Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital is hiring a full-time Clinical Pharmacist.
  • Location: Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital
  • Status: Full Time
  • Shift: Nights
  • Hours: 8PM-7AM; 7 days on 7 days off rotation
  • Weekends: Every other weekend

Holiday Rotation

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt pharmacy services. Participates in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to the patients in their assigned areas.

  • Demonstrates the ability to work in areas of pharmacy practice competently and independently
  • Manages patient drug therapy in accordance with applicable clinical practice standards
  • Assures the appropriateness of all provider medication orders in maintaining a high level of patient care and safety
  • Maintains current knowledge of medication use and disease states applicable to their area of practice
  • Serves as the primary resource for drug information and education
  • Provides in-depth patient counseling when required
  • Participates in the training of new employees as assigned
  • Assumes local responsibility and ownership for assigned tasks

Consistently Follows Policies and Procedures

Continually seeks out additional training opportunities and stays abreast of new and changing information for assigned areas

Demonstrates superior customer service, effective communication, decision-making, and organization to ensure efficient job performance and success

  • Serves as a role model in the following areas: professionalism, collaboration, and teamwork.
  • Ensures adequate supplies are available for continuous patient care
  • Triages and escalates any questions or issues outside the scope of practice as needed
  • Uses appropriate systems for processing of patient information
  • Ensures quality assurance is maintained according to departmental and legal requirements
  • Operates pharmacy equipment appropriately
  • Precepts pharmacy students as assigned
  • In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned

Education

  • Bachelors Level Degree in Pharmacy (Required)
  • Doctorate Level Degree in Pharmacy (Preferred)
  • Certification/Licensure
  • Virginia Pharmacist License (Required)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) (Required)
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (Preferred)

Experience

  • Previous Hospital Experience (Preferred)
  • Residency Trained (Preferred)

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Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

  • Medical, Dental, Vision plans
  • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
  • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
  • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
  • Emergency Backup Care
  • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k/403B with Employer Match
  • Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
  • Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
  • Pet Insurance
  • Legal Resources Plan
  • Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, located in Virginia Beach, VA, is home to the region’s only Level III Trauma Center. Our 273-bed facility has a long history of commitment to our communities of Virginia Beach, Eastern Shore, and Northeastern North Carolina, offering specialized tertiary services as well as many advanced clinical services. We are located just 15 minutes from VA Beach Town Center and just a few minutes to the Oceanfront.

As a recognized accredited Primary Stroke Center, and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, our hospital specializes in heart, vascular, neuroscience, neurosurgery, orthopedics and spine care, cancer care, advanced imaging, and behavioral health.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for providing safe, effective, and prompt pharmacy services while managing patient drug therapy. They serve as a primary resource for drug information, provide patient counseling, and participate in the training of new employees and students.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy and a valid Virginia Pharmacist License, with Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required. Previous hospital experience and residency training are preferred qualifications for this role.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication therapy managementPharmacy operationsPatient safetyPrecepting

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 18% are remote, 50% have no call, 54% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Pharmacy market look like in Virginia?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.4 / 10 · top 25% in pharmacyranked against 10,251 Pharmacy listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Cost of livingVirginia index 101.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Pharmacy listings in Virginia284 active10,250 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 18% remote · 50% no call · 54% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repayment$10k loan repaymentVirginia Pharmacist listings: 15% state a sign-on bonus · 18% offer loan repayment293 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (10,251 Pharmacy listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Clinical Pharmacist at Sentara Health a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Pharmacy — ranked against 10,251 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Top Pharmacist Jobs

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Salary Distribution

33 jobs · 30 employers
8
<$145k
4
$145k-165k
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

31 jobs · 30 employers
401k / retirement match
97% this job
Sign-on bonus
29%
Loan repayment
10%
CME allowance
6%
Relocation assistance
6%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 6.4
Better work-life than 90% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,251 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • Includes weekends
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About Sentara Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Virginia Beach, Virginia
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision plans
Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
Emergency Backup Care
Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
Life Insurance
401k/403B with Employer Match

Living in Virginia Beach

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$378k
Typical market rent
$2,098/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.