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Shriners Children's
St. Louis, Missouri

Pharmacist (Weekend Option)

PharmacistIncludes callIncludes weekendsPer 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 St. Louis has an opportunity for a PRN Pharmacist. In this role the pharmacist properly checks, prepares, and distributes medications, and ensures proper control measures of medication and medication storage areas. Join a team of professionals committed to improving children's lives. Our top healthcare professionals excel in their practices and provide compassionate, family-centered care to children who need it most.

Key Responsibilities

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

  • Receive prescriptions and medication orders from providers
  • Check medication orders for proper dosing, contraindications, interactions
  • Prepares, fills, and dispenses medications based upon physician orders

Assesses the appropriateness of medications prescribed, monitors medication effects on the patient and provides drug information to hospital and medical staff

Assist the Pharmacy Manager in planning, developing, coordinating and controlling pharmacy department functions and in training, supervising and evaluating pharmacy support personnel

Orders CII controlled substances and maintain control of all controlled substances

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor in Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy license in state of practice

Preferred Qualifications

  • PharmD
  • 2 years Hospital Pharmacy experience
  • 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 dispensingPharmacy operationsDosing verificationContraindication screeningDrug interaction monitoringPatient medication assessmentPharmacy staff supervisionControlled substance managementCII substance orderingPharmacy trainingClinical pharmacy practicePediatric pharmacy

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 42% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Pharmacist (Weekend Option) at Shriners Children's 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 10,095 active Pharmacy listings on WeekdayDoc.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs

401k / retirement match
93%
Sign-on bonus
21%
PSLF eligible
11%
Loan repayment
7%
CME allowance
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 6.1
Better work-life than 80% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,095 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site
  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends
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About Shriners Children's

Hospitals and Health Care
Montreal, Quebec
51-200 employees