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Alameda, California

Healthcare Services Pharmacist

PharmacistFull-Time

Listed compensation

$67.35-$82.3/hr

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Posted 32m ago · Verified live

Job Description

Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring the compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.

Job Responsibilities

Patient Experience

  • Engages patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves patient issues in a timely manner and answers questions to ensure a positive patient experience.
  • Models and shares patient service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and joyful experience, including interpersonal habits that show care (e. g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc.) and Walgreens service traits (e. g., demonstrating curiosity to identify needs and proactively helping, servicing until satisfied, championing empathy and inclusivity, etc.).
  • Connects with patients by anticipating needs and proactively offering services. Supports efforts on enhancing patient experience by increasing awareness of healthcare services offered through Walgreens (e. g., patient consultation, medication management, drug therapy reviews, and perform clinical, or wellness services such as immunizations, diagnostic testing, and patient outcomes services) thereby promoting the shift of the Walgreens pharmacy role from transactional to interpersonal.

Operations

  • Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.
  • Ensures the use of all elements of the Good Faith Dispensing policy in conjunction with state and federal controlled substance laws when filling prescriptions. The Product Review/Retail Fill Process Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring that elements of Good Faith are present.

Training & Personal Development

  • Maintains current knowledge and required licensing/credentialing/certification as established by federal and state regulations to provide such clinical services.
  • Maintains current knowledge and skills related to pharmacy and healthcare by reading pharmacy related journals, company publications, and communications.

Maintains awareness of developments in retail and management and pursues best practices that would enhance performance.

  • Obtains necessary certifications, education credits and training, including learning modules, as required by the Company.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (walgreens.com ) proudly serves more than 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,000 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 211,000 team members, including roughly 85,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

External Basic Qualifications

  • BS in Pharmacy or Pharmacist Degree from an accredited educational institution.
  • Current pharmacist licensure in the states within the district.
  • Certified Immunizer or willing to become an immunizer within 90 days of hire.

Preferred Qualifications

The Salary below is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Walgreens. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits.

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We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Key Responsibilities

Provides clinical services such as immunizations and medication therapy management while ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines. Engages with patients to resolve issues and proactively offers healthcare services to enhance the patient experience.

Requirements

Requires a BS in Pharmacy or a Pharmacist degree from an accredited institution. Must hold a current pharmacist license in the state and be a certified immunizer or willing to become one within 90 days.

Key Skills

Regulatory compliancePharmacy operations

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 44 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 39% are remote, 57% have no call, 61% require no weekends.

In California, the Pharmacy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$166k (147 salary observations; 369 listings), vs ~$139k nationally (1,119 salary observations; 5,179 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$156k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $141k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Pharmacy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs · 19 employers

401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
4%
CME allowance
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Relocation assistance
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Below most Pharmacy listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,209 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Alameda

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.19M
Typical market rent
$2,953/mo
Residents’ average commute
32 min
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
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.