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Clearway Health
Boston, Massachusetts

Senior Clinical Pharmacist

PharmacistFull-Time

Listed compensation

$146k-$182k

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Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

Welcome to Clearway Health - At Clearway Health, we’ve been recognized as a Great Place to Work® for three years in a row—and we’re just getting started. We’re redefining specialty pharmacy by improving access to care, delivering personalized support, and helping patients navigate complex medication needs.

Our award-winning culture is built on empowering our people to grow, contribute, and make a difference every day. If you’re driven to create meaningful change and thrive in a collaborative, purpose-driven environment, you’ll fit right in. If you’re looking for a role where you can truly make an impact, keep reading below!

Position Summary

As a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, you play a strategic and advanced clinical role across multiple client sites within a defined multi-state region.

This role serves as a deployable clinical asset, providing critical on-site coverage during staffing transitions, leaves of absence (e. g., FMLA), or new site implementations. You ensure optimal patient outcomes related to chronic, complex, and specialty drug-related disease states while providing high-level clinical oversight, compliance leadership, and cross-site operational support.

In addition to delivering direct patient care, you are responsible for overseeing clinical standards, auditing practices, and regulatory compliance. You serve as a clinical authority and specialty pharmacy expert to patients, caregivers, providers, site leaders, and interdisciplinary teams.

With expanded licensure requirements, you ensure consistent, high-quality pharmacotherapy, support site readiness for internal and external audits, and partner closely with the Site Director to maintain full adherence to clinical, operational, and regulatory expectations.

You could mentor and develop pharmacists, residents, and trainees, contributing to the advancement of clinical practice across all supported locations.

Essential Responsibilities/Duties

Clinical Practice and Patient Care

Provide advanced direct patient care in ambulatory and specialty settings, focusing on chronic and specialty drug-related disease state management.

Conduct detailed health and medication histories; perform limited physical assessments to determine medication therapy effectiveness.

Modify and optimize pharmacotherapy in collaboration with referring physicians, following evidence-based and specialty-specific guidelines.

Educate patients, caregivers, and multidisciplinary team members on disease states, therapies, and specialty medications.

Clinical Oversight and Compliance

  • Oversee clinical practice standards and medication management processes across multiple client sites.
  • Serve as the clinical and compliance lead, ensuring adherence to organizational, state, and federal regulations.
  • Monitor compliance metrics; identify gaps and implement corrective action plans.

Lead quality assurance activities, including adverse drug reaction reporting, medication error prevention, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Operational and Stakeholder Collaboration

Seamlessly integrate into local site workflows to provide extended clinical coverage (weeks to months) during staffing vacancies or extended leaves.

Utilize expertise to guide drug utilization, therapy optimization, and specialty program development.

Support cross-site 340B program operations, patient eligibility identification, and staff education as applicable.

Serve as a liaison between outpatient pharmacies, clinic staff, payers, and internal partners to resolve coverage challenges and workflow barriers.

Document all patient interactions and clinical interventions in the electronic medical record with accuracy and timeliness.

Leadership and Professional Development

Support clinical pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and students; contribute to the professional development of all site pharmacy teams.

Facilitate in-service education, clinical trainings, and competency development across supported regions as needed.

Assist with prescription filling, verification, or dispensing activities as operationally needed.

Job Requirements

Required Education & Experience

  • PharmD or bachelor’s degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy required.
  • Completion of PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency, or 3+ years of direct clinical pharmacy experience required.

Completion of PGY-2 Ambulatory Care, Specialty Pharmacy, or a related specialty residency/fellowship preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations Required

  • Active, unrestricted pharmacist licensure in good standing.
  • Multi-state pharmacist licensure is required.
  • Ability to obtain additional state licenses as required by organizational needs
  • Board Certification required, Certified Specialty Pharmacist (CSP) preferred.
  • Ability to obtain applicable State Board of Pharmacy preceptor license(s) within one year of hire.

Knowledge / Skills / Ability

Advanced knowledge of medications, drug interactions, specialty therapies, diagnostics, and disease state management.

Demonstrated ability to lead clinical programs and maintain compliance across multiple sites.

Strong understanding of accreditation standards, specialty pharmacy regulatory requirements, and audit processes.

Ability to manage multiple priorities, oversee cross-site responsibilities, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.

  • Strong analytical skills with a proven track record in process improvement and quality initiatives.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, EMR systems, and clinical documentation workflows.

Special Working Conditions (on-Call, Travel, Shift, Coverage)

Travel to client sites is estimated to fall between 50% of the time

This information is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Clearway Health. The current annual compensation range for this position is $146,000 - $182,000.

The actual rate 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.

In addition to a competitive base salary, this role is eligible to participate in the company’s bonus program as part of its comprehensive and rewarding benefits package. This opportunity offers a compelling combination of compensation and performance-based incentives designed to recognize and reward contributions.

The above statements in this job description are intended to depict the general nature and level of work assigned to the employee(s) in this job. The above is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of accountable duties and responsibilities required.

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case-by-case basis.

Key Responsibilities

Provide advanced clinical pharmacy services and patient care across multiple client sites in a multi-state region. Oversee clinical standards, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide operational support during staffing transitions.

Requirements

Requires a PharmD or bachelor's degree in pharmacy, active multi-state licensure, and board certification. Candidates must have a PGY-1 residency or 3+ years of direct clinical pharmacy experience.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification (preferred)

Key Skills

Pharmacotherapy OptimizationPatient EducationMedication Therapy ManagementClinical AuditingInterdisciplinary CollaborationEMR ProficiencyClinical Leadership

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 45 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 58% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$164k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $155k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
86%
Sign-on bonus
36%
Loan repayment
5%
Relocation assistance
5%
PSLF eligible
5%

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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 10,350 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Boston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$813k≈ 5.6× annual pay
Typical market rent
$3,338/mo≈ 27% 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 (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 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.

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About Clearway Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Boston, MA
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Bonus program
Comprehensive benefits package
Great Place to Work certified