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Humboldt Park Health
Chicago, Illinois

Clinical Staff Pharmacist

PharmacistFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 7mo ago

Job Description

1. Reviews, processes, and modifies, as necessary, all medication orders to maintain a current and accurate medication profile.

2. Supervises, directs and reviews all activities involved with the compounding, storing, inventory, labeling, recording, or preparing medications by pharmacy technicians.

3. Monitors drug therapies to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic levels, drug interactions, and therapeutic duplication.

4. Monitors the use of drugs for compliance with prescribing criteria, guidelines, formulary, and protocols established by Norwegian American Hospital.

5. Detects, monitors, documents and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors.

6. Serves as a resource of drug information for all practitioners and patients (i. e. drug identification, side effects, adverse events, interactions, medication counseling, etc.).

7. Participates in pharmacy quality assessment/performance improvement (QA/PI) projects and/or initiatives.

8. Assures proper control, documentation, and record keeping of controlled substances.

9. Ensures all state and federal regulatory requirements are maintained.

Requirements

Graduate of an ACPE accredited college of pharmacy.

Pharmacist licensure required.

The hospital prohibits discrimination based on age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Staff Pharmacist is responsible for reviewing and modifying medication orders, supervising pharmacy technicians in medication preparation, and monitoring drug therapies for appropriateness and compliance with hospital protocols. This role also involves detecting and reporting adverse drug reactions and serving as a drug information resource for practitioners and patients.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Medication Order ReviewInventory ManagementDrug Therapy MonitoringDrug Utilization ReviewAdverse Drug Reaction ReportingMedication Error DocumentationControlled Substance ManagementRegulatory Compliance

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 56% are remote, 38% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks32 jobs · 31 employers

401k / retirement match
94%
Sign-on bonus
31%
Loan repayment
6%
PSLF eligible
6%
Relocation assistance
3%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 3.0
Better work-life than 50% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,288 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Chicago

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$356k
Typical market rent
$2,342/mo
Residents’ average commute
33 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.