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Santa Clarita, California

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PharmacistFull-Time

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Job Description

Pharmacist-Foundation

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Pharmacist is a licensed professional responsible for delivering safe, effective, and comprehensive patient care. This role ensures compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, as well as standards set by regulatory and accrediting bodies such as The Joint Commission. The Pharmacist performs medication management functions including analysis, verification, monitoring, compounding, and dispensing of medications.

Serving as the medication management expert, the Pharmacist provides accurate and timely drug information to providers, nurses, and other clinical staff. The Pharmacist also supervises pharmacy technicians during assigned shifts and supports the training and education of pharmacy personnel. Collaboration with colleagues and a commitment to excellent customer service for patients and staff are essential to this role. Additional responsibilities may include participation in quality improvement, performance initiatives, and other duties as assigned by Pharmacy Leadership.

As a successful candidate, you will

  • Support and promote the efforts of all care providers to deliver quality care.
  • Promote the delivery of quality care consistent with the scope of practice of the discipline.

Ensure self-competence and promotes adherence to professional practice standards through education, training, coaching and monitoring.

Participate with the Director and managers in the implementation and evaluation of new services/programs.

Supervise personnel and personally delivers pharmaceutical care and service/ information/ medication/ products by serving as a role model and through effective use of change-agent strategies.

Supervision of Pharmacy Technician to ensure compliance with cleanroom standards, accuracy of medication inventory and accuracy of IV compounded products.

  • Keep up-to-date with USP 797 & 800 guidelines and work with interdisciplinary team to ensure compliance.
  • Maintain Pharmacy Technician IV compounding annual competencies.

Effectively communicates/educates all customers to meet organizational goals and customer service expectations.

Maintain current knowledge, skills and competencies through involvement in professional continuing education activities.

Manage/supervise the efficient and effective utilization of resources and staff (technicians, students, interns, etc.) and serves as a role model in training programs.

  • Fosters involvement in performance improvement activities to promote continuous improvement in care delivery.
  • Demonstrates assimilation of core organizational values within own performance.
  • Monitor drug therapy; recommends alternate more efficient drug therapy when appropriate.
  • Prepare and dispense medications in strict adherence to department policies and procedures.

Your qualifications should include

  • Graduate of ACPE-accredited Pharmacy School or School with ACPE accreditation pending
  • Current CA Pharmacist License
  • BLS through the American Heart Association

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

  • City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
  • To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide safe, comprehensive pharmaceutical care by reviewing, monitoring, compounding, and dispensing medications, and by advising clinical staff on drug information and therapy options. Supervise and train pharmacy technicians, ensure regulatory and cleanroom compliance, and contribute to service implementation and quality improvement.

Requirements

Applicants must graduate from an ACPE-accredited pharmacy school or a school with ACPE accreditation pending, hold a current California pharmacist license, and have BLS certification through the American Heart Association. The role also requires maintaining professional competencies and knowledge of USP 797 and USP 800 standards.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication VerificationDrug Therapy MonitoringMedication CompoundingMedication DispensingPharmacy Technician SupervisionUSP 797 And 800 ComplianceRegulatory ComplianceStaff Training And Education

Pharmacist Career Context

City of Hope holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 71/100, 53 active listings.

In California, the Pharmacy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$160k (126 salary observations; 316 listings), vs ~$137k nationally (1,289 salary observations; 5,647 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 32% are remote, 42% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Pharmacy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks33 jobs

401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
21% this job
Sign-on bonus
15%
Loan repayment
6%
PSLF eligible
6% this job

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Work-life snapshot

1.5/ 10
Listing-based score

Living in Santa Clarita

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$740k
Typical market rent
$2,787/mo
Residents’ average commute
34 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
113.6
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.

BEA 2024 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About City of Hope

Hospitals and Health Care
Duarte, CA
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive Benefits
PSLF Eligible