Pharmacist - Full Time (40 hours/week)
Listed compensation
starts at $61 /hr
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Job Description
Company Description
KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.
Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at kvhealthcare.org.
KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program.
KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision.
We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay toS encourage continuing education. We want our employees to know they are valued.
One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -
Benefits - KV Healthcare
kvhealthcare.org
Job Description
The staff pharmacist will be responsible for the provision of progressive and comprehensive pharmaceutical services to the hospital patients and the retail pharmacy. The staff pharmacist will work closely with other health care providers to ensure positive patient outcomes associated with safe medication practices.
The retail pharmacy fills prescriptions for KVH Hospice under a collaborative practice agreement with our Hospice Medical Director utilizing algorithms approved by the Board of Pharmacy
Qualifications
- What is required...
- Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy
- Current license to practice Pharmacy in the State of Washington
- Familiarity with Automated Dispensing Cabinetry (ex. Pyxis)
- Current CPR card (maintenance required)
- Current PALS card (maintenance required)
- What is preferred...
- Two years’ work experience in a hospital setting
- Amerisource Bergen, Cerner experience
- CPOE, Emar, Rx Informatics experience
- Bar Code at the Bedside experience
- Retail Pharmacy Experience
- Knowledge of the 340B Program
- Prior experience with Hospice protocols and guidelines
Additional Information
Wage: Wage range currently starts at $61.21/hour and goes up to $92.78/hour. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.
- FTE: 1.0 (40 hours/week)
- Benefits: This position is benefits eligible
- Union Status: This is a non-union covered position
Compensation: USD 61.21 - USD 92.78 - hourly
Key Responsibilities
The staff pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical services to hospital patients and the retail pharmacy. They collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure safe medication practices and positive patient outcomes.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Pharmacist Career Context
Of the 45 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 56% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Washington is 107.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$160k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $150k in an average-cost state. 59.8% of Washington clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Pharmacist - Full Time (40 hours/week) at Kittitas Valley Healthcare a 6.1 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.
Location & Logistics
Washington has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$160k midpoint, that is roughly $6k–$11k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.
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