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Staff Pharmacist Part Time

PharmacistNo weekendsPart-Time

Listed compensation

$16-$29/hr

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Job Description

Explore opportunities with CPS, part of the Optum family of businesses. We’re dedicated to crafting and delivering innovative hospital and pharmacy solutions for better patient outcomes across the entire continuum of care.

With CPS, you’ll work alongside our team of more than 2,500 pharmacy professionals, technology experts, and industry leaders to drive superior financial, clinical, and operational performance for health systems nationwide. Ready to help shape the future of pharmacy and hospital solutions? Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Silver Oaks Behavioral Hospital provides mental health and substance use disorder treatment for adolescents to senior adults.

Pharmacy Location: Located within Silver Oaks Behavioral Hospital 1004 Pawlak Pkwy New Lenox, IL 60451

Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 7:30am to 4pm and Saturdays and Sundays 7:30am to 1pm

Primary Responsibilities

  • Reviews, verifies, and dispenses medication orders to ensure appropriateness, safety, and accuracy
  • Provides clinical pharmacy services, including medication therapy management and pharmacokinetic dosing and monitoring
  • Collaborate with physicians, nurses, and care teams to optimize medication regimens for hospitalized patients
  • Oversee sterile and non-sterile compounding activities, ensuring compliance with USP and hospital standards
  • Monitors patient outcomes and medication safety, identifying and preventing adverse drug events
  • Supervises and supports pharmacy technicians and interns, ensuring efficient and compliant workflow
  • Ensures regulatory and accreditation compliance, including Joint Commission, state, and federal requirements

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

  • Graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy- ACPE-accredited pharmacy degree
  • Active Illinois state pharmacist license in good standing
  • 2+ years of pharmacist experience in a hospital setting

Skilled with Pharmacy Systems and Microsoft Office

Demonstrated ability to review, verify, and dispense medication orders to ensure appropriateness, safety, and accuracy

Demonstrated ability to provide clinical pharmacy services, including medication therapy management and pharmacokinetic dosing and monitoring

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with physicians, nurses, and care teams to optimize medication regimens for hospitalized patients

Demonstrated ability to monitor patient outcomes and medication safety, identifying and preventing adverse drug events

Demonstrated ability to supervise and support pharmacy technicians and interns, ensuring efficient and compliant workflow

Demonstrated ability to ensure regulatory and accreditation compliance, including Joint Commission, state, and federal requirements

Preferred Qualification

PharmD

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The hourly pay for this role will range from $16 - $29 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life.

Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes.

We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Key Responsibilities

The Staff Pharmacist is responsible for reviewing, verifying, and dispensing medication orders while providing clinical pharmacy services such as therapy management and pharmacokinetic monitoring. They also collaborate with care teams to optimize patient regimens and supervise pharmacy staff to ensure regulatory compliance.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an ACPE-accredited pharmacy degree and an active Illinois pharmacist license. A minimum of two years of hospital pharmacy experience is required, along with proficiency in pharmacy systems and clinical monitoring.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Joint Commission standardsPatient outcome monitoringTeam collaborationSupervisionMedication verification

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 33% are remote, 40% have no call, 75% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$47k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $47k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

UnitedHealth Group holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 75/100, 1,405 active listings.

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Staff Pharmacist Part Time at UnitedHealth Group a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Pharmacy — ranked against 10,286 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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Loan repayment
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Relocation assistance
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 6.4
Better work-life than 90% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,286 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends

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.

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Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive Benefits Package
Incentive and Recognition Programs
Equity Stock Purchase
401k Contribution