Pharmacist
Listed compensation
$80-$120.01/hr
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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Job Description
Join Cottage Health as a Pharmacist. As a Pharmacist, you will provide appropriate Pharmaceutical care to patients and staff of Cottage Hospital including distributive as well as clinical pharmacy functions.
At Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, scheduling is geared to provide a comfortable work/life balance with 10-hour shifts. We have a decentralized clinical program and our health system is committed to maintaining state of the art pharmaceutical services.
New hires receive a six-week intensive clinical pharmacy orientation and training program.
We enjoy outstanding relationships with our nursing and physician colleagues. Our upbeat atmosphere fosters learning, improvements in patient safety and outstanding pharmaceutical care.
Our benefits program is called Choices…for Health…for Wealth…for Life. We take great pride in continuously evaluating our Choices program to offer the most competitive benefits in the health care industry.
We offer employees excellent traditional benefit plans like medical, dental, life insurance, and disability coverage, along with a leading-edge Wellness Program of health improvement opportunities.
The program provides tools that allow you to bring the same attention to your health that Cottage Health does to the health of our patients.
Qualifications
- Current California Pharmacist license
- 3 years of hospital pharmacy experience or completion of a PGY-1 residency preferred
Cottage Health is a leading acute care hospital system, located on the central coast of California, widely known for our superior patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health system operates primarily in Santa Barbara, Ca, since 1888, and consists of three acute care hospitals, a Rehabilitation Hospital, multiple clinics and a multi-site Urgent Care system.
Our mission is to serve the central coast communities with excellence, integrity, and compassion. Every day we touch thousands of lives in many different ways, resolute in our mission to put patients first. We take pride in helping our patients get back to living their lives - in the places they love.
Cottage Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Cottage Health applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, transgender, gender expression and identity, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military status or any other classification protected by law.
This policy applies to all aspects of the relationship between Cottage Health and an applicant or employee. Cottage Health is committed to upholding discrimination-free hiring practices.
We strive to cultivate an environment where exceptional people bring diverse perspectives and find belonging, support and connection to their work.
Any Cottage Health applicants who require assistance or reasonable accommodations during the application process may request the need for accommodation with the Recruiter.
If you're already a Cottage Health employee, please apply on this link only.
Key Responsibilities
The Pharmacist will provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care, including both distributive and clinical pharmacy functions for patients and staff. They will participate in a decentralized clinical program to ensure high standards of patient safety and pharmaceutical services.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Pharmacist Career Context
Of the 45 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 56% have no call, 62% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$208k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $188k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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