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UMass Memorial Health
Worcester, Massachusetts

Clinical Pharmacist, Outpatient Pharmacy-Prescription Center, Per Diem

PharmacistNo weekendsPer Diem

Listed compensation

$47.53-$85.55/hr

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Job Description

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Exemption Status

Non-Exempt

Hiring Range

  • $47.53 - $85.55
  • (based on a full time schedule of 40 hours per week).

Please note that the final offer will vary based on scheduled hours. Compensation for part-time or reduced schedules will be prorated based on scheduled weekly hours, experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details

Monday through Friday, Saturday

Scheduled Hours

rotating schedule between the hours of 6:45am to 7pm and every 5th Saturday 8:30am to 5pm.

Shift: 4 - Mixed Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 0

Cost Center

  • 10010 - 3808 Prescription Center Memorial
  • This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve.

We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Major Responsibilities

Participates in drug therapy management and documents the care provided in patients’ medical records. Participates in interdisciplinary reviews of patients’ progress, as well as communicates pertinent patient information to other health care providers when patients change care settings to ensure continuity of care.

  • Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
  • Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.

Contacts and confers with physicians and other practitioners to optimize drug therapy and advising of needed interventions.

Assists patients in gaining access to medications (e. g., working with payers to resolve issues that may impede access to medication therapies) when applicable.

Interprets and responds to clinical decision support and drug utilization review from internal and external systems on patients’ drug therapy.

Provide individualized health promotion and disease prevention, including administration of immunizations where legal and authorized.

Provides computer order entry, ensuring proper technique and accurate preparation of all pharmaceutical products.

  • Supervises technicians as needed.
  • Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration.
  • Provides pharmacological information by answering requests of health care professionals.
  • Counseling patients on drug therapies.
  • Report all adverse drug reactions and drug related events to proper persons.

Maintains all records need for the proper handling of 340b purchased medications and facilitates the most cost-effective means for the procurement of pharmaceuticals.

Precepts Early Pharmacy Practice Experience (EPPE) rotation students, and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) rotation students, and pharmacy residents consistent with academic credentials and clinical experience.

Prepares presentations, publications and other information sharing activities for the health care community and general public.

Participates in continuing education programs, meetings, training programs and related activities.

Position Qualifications

License/Certification/Education:

Required

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D) degree or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSPharm) degree.

Licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Experience/Skills

Required

  • 3 years ambulatory experience.
  • Must have essential skills to implement motivational interviewing skills to assist the patient in taking an active part in their health care and promote healthy lifestyles.
  • Must be able to cross-cover in a variety of practice areas within the pharmacy as requested by supervisor.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and optimize outpatient drug therapy by reviewing prescriptions, preparing and dispensing medications, counseling patients, and coordinating with physicians and other care providers. Support medication access, immunization services, regulatory compliance, pharmacy staff and learners, and accurate records, including those for 340B medications.

Requirements

Requires a Pharm.D. or BSPharm degree, an active Massachusetts pharmacy license, and three years of ambulatory experience. Candidates must be able to use motivational interviewing to engage patients in their care and cross-cover different pharmacy practice areas as needed.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication Preparation and DispensingMedication CompoundingPatient CounselingImmunization AdministrationMedication Access AssistanceInterdisciplinary CommunicationPharmacy Order EntryTechnician Supervision340B Medication RecordsAdverse Drug Event ReportingPharmacy Student Precepting

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 53% have no call, 75% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$138k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $131k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Clinical Pharmacist, Outpatient Pharmacy-Prescription Center, Per Diem at UMass Memorial Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Pharmacy — ranked against 10,137 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 6.0
Better work-life than 80% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,137 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends

Living in Worcester

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$449k
Typical market rent
$2,130/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
State income tax
Up to 5%
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.