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Shriners Children's
Boston, Massachusetts

Pharmacist

PharmacistPer Diem

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Job Description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact.

We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

Shriners Children's Boston has a PRN opportunity available for a Clinical Pharmacist.

Under the supervision of the Director of Pharmacy, this position will provide clinical pharmacy services, pharmacy student teaching and pharmacy operational duties as appropriate. Maintains clinical pharmacy services on all hospital units. Manages the pharmacy inventory control program and ordering of pharmaceuticals. Assists in all pharmacy operations as appropriate, including supervision of the pharmacy technician staff.

Key Responsibilities

Reviews physician's drug orders and provides quality and timely advice to ensure that they are accurate, appropriate, and complete.

Appropriately prepares and oversees the preparation of medications and compounded sterile products for use.

Conducts and oversees the preparation and dispensing of medications, guided by professional standards of practice.

Oversees inventory management in the pharmacy and in all medication storage areas to ensure proper and appropriate stock at all time.

  • Recommends, monitors and evaluates patient-specific pharmacotherapy.
  • Assists the Director with precepting pharmacy technicians and students.
  • Reviews controlled substance records.
  • Promotes medication event management and tracking.
  • Assumes Operational aspects of the Pharmacy Department in the Director's absence.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor in Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy license in state of practice

Preferred Qualifications

  • PharmD
  • 2 years Hospital Pharmacy experience

The pay range for this position is $ XX. XX-XX. XX hourly

Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor in Pharmacy and a valid pharmacy license in the state of practice. A PharmD and at least 2 years of hospital pharmacy experience are preferred.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Medication DispensingSterile CompoundingPharmacotherapy MonitoringDrug Order ReviewStaff SupervisionControlled Substance Management

Pediatrics — Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacist listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 38% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks29 jobs

401k / retirement match
86%
Sign-on bonus
34%
PSLF eligible
10%
Loan repayment
3%
Relocation assistance
3%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 1.5
Below most Pediatrics (Pharmacy) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 51 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site

Living in Boston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$813k
Typical market rent
$3,338/mo
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.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Shriners Children's

Hospitals and Health Care
Montreal, Quebec
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

PRN Opportunity
Pediatric Specialty Care
Nonprofit Organization