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Beth Israel Lahey Health
Boston, Massachusetts

Staff Pharmacist Spec Pharmacy

PharmacistFull-Time

Listed compensation

$121k-$153k

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Job Description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Summary

Responsible for the operation and quality assurance of the services provided through the specialty pharmacy. Ensures the correct medications are dispensed to the correct patients in the most efficient and safe manner.

Medication compliance monitoring, chronic disease state management, patient consultation, and provider communications are a part of daily tasks. This position is a part of the interdisciplinary team that includes clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technician technicians and delivery personnel.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

Performs quality assurance of prescriptions and medications to dispense.

Performs clinical assessments and reassessments and performs and documents clinical interventions per protocol.

Dispenses prescribed medications, drugs, and other pharmaceuticals for patient care: reviews prescriptions issued by physician, or other authorized prescriber to assure accuracy; directs pharmacy personnel engaged in packaging, and labeling of pharmaceuticals; answers questions and provides information to pharmacy customers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage and storage of pharmaceuticals.

Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.

Enters data such as patient name, prescribed medication and cost, to maintain accurate/up to date pharmacy files, billing, and inventory.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy required.
  • License Pharmacist required.
  • 3-5 years related work experience required.
  • Possesses knowledge in drug information, disease state management, and legal requirements of pharmacy practices.
  • Understanding of insurance and adjudication processes.
  • Working knowledge of inventory processes.

Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in specialty pharmacy.
  • Board of Pharmacy Specialty Certification.
  • Experience with the 340B drug program and PGY training.

Competencies

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.

Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.

Team Work: Ability to lead collaborative teams for larger projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have implications for the management and operations of multiple areas of the organization.

Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Physical Nature of the Job

Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus

Pay Range

$120,640.00 USD - $153,001.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Key Responsibilities

The Staff Pharmacist is responsible for the operation and quality assurance of specialty pharmacy services, including dispensing medications and performing clinical assessments. They also provide patient consultations, monitor medication compliance, and communicate with providers to ensure safe and efficient patient care.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy and a valid Pharmacist license with 3-5 years of related work experience. Proficiency in drug information, disease state management, and pharmacy legal requirements is required, along with advanced Microsoft application skills.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication dispensingClinical assessmentInventory managementMicrosoft OfficeData entryHazardous waste disposalPharmacy operationsClinical interventionInsurance adjudicationRegulatory compliance

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 15% are remote, 55% have no call, 48% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$137k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $129k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Pharmacy market look like in Massachusetts?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$129k in purchasing powerMassachusetts index 105.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Pharmacy listings in Massachusetts315 active10,156 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 15% remote · 55% no call · 48% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedMassachusetts Pharmacist listings: 23% state a sign-on bonus (median $50k) · 16% offer loan repayment329 active listings, Nov 2026
New Pharmacy listings3,666 in the last 30 days3,150 the 30 days before (+16%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Pharmacy pay trend+3.3% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Benefits & Perks

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Better work-life than 10% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 9,956 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Beth Israel Lahey Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Newburyport, MA
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health System Benefits (details not specified)
PSLF Eligible Employer

Living in Boston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$800k≈ 6.6× annual pay
Typical market rent
$3,271/mo≈ 33% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
30 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.3
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.