Pharmacist Specialist - Cardiac Intensive Care/Cardiac Acute Care

PharmacistIncludes callNo weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

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Work Shift

  • Day
  • Work Day(s)
  • Monday-Friday
  • Shift Start Time
  • 7:30 AM
  • Shift End Time
  • 4:00 PM
  • Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Children’s is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals. No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. We’re committed to putting you first, and that commitment is at the heart of our company culture: People first. Children always. Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children’s.

Job Description

Ensures safe, efficacious, rational, and cost-effective patient medication therapy by influencing physicians' use of resources and monitoring drug effectiveness. Develops and improves integrated clinical and distributive pharmaceutical services. Reviews physician orders, coordinates dispensing of medications, and provides clinical and educational services to other healthcare professionals and to pediatric patients and their families.

Experience

Experience in a hospital pharmacy in pediatrics

Preferred Qualifications

NA

Education

  • PharmD (or equivalent experience) and graduation from an accredited pharmacy school
  • Certification Summary
  • Georgia licensed pharmacist and residency or equivalent experience
  • American Heart Association Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Ability to work effectively with multiple groups of healthcare professionals and communicate effectively with patients and parents/caregivers

Job Responsibilities

  • Performs production and distributive pharmacy responsibilities as required.
  • Interacts and participates with team members and other healthcare providers for the provision of safe, cost-effective drug therapy for assigned patient care teams.
  • Provides drug information and medication use education to healthcare professionals.

Participates in developing and evaluating drug policies, conducting drug utilization evaluations, and reporting adverse drug reactions/adverse drug events.

Maintains accurate patient medication profiles, noting medication reconciliation drug-related problems and coordinating patient medication needs at transition of care.

Provides education and supports team participation in the provision of medication education to patients and families.

Serves as preceptor and clinical leader to new employees, post-graduate year one residents, and pharmacy students.

Maintains individual competence and develops professional practice management skills.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

  • Primary Location Address
  • 2220 North Druid Hills Road
  • Job Family
  • Pharmacy

Key Responsibilities

Ensures safe and cost-effective medication therapy for pediatric patients in cardiac care by monitoring drug effectiveness and influencing physician resource use. Coordinates medication dispensing, provides clinical education to healthcare professionals, and serves as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents.

Requirements

Requires a PharmD from an accredited school and a Georgia pharmacist license. Candidates must have residency or equivalent experience and American Heart Association CPR certification.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Pediatric PharmacyMedication Therapy ManagementClinical PharmacyDrug Utilization EvaluationPatient EducationPreceptingClinical LeadershipPatient Safety

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Pharmacist Specialist - Cardiac Intensive Care/Cardiac Acute Care at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta 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 9,813 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 32% are remote, 58% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Pharmacy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Loan repayment
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CME allowance
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 9,813 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • Includes call

Living in Atlanta

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$377k
Typical market rent
$1,944/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

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

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