Specialty Pharmacist 20hrs (M-F 4PM to 8PM EST)
💊 Specialty Pharmacist – Second Shift
📍 Join a high-impact, patient-first pharmacy team
🕐 Shift: 4-hour shifts between 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Monday–Friday
📅 Weekend Rotation: Saturdays or Sundays – as needed
🌟 Job Purpose
Provides integrated support to patients and physicians by delivering a hands-on, total quality patient care experience. This role ensures seamless coordination across specialty and retail pharmacy services, enabling smooth patient transitions and timely access to medications.
The Specialty Pharmacist will manage both retail and specialty pharmacy operations, ensuring:
- ✅ Safe and effective medication dispensing
- ✅ Comprehensive patient counseling
- ✅ Clinical oversight and support
🔑 Key Responsibilities
💼 Clinical & Patient Care
- Prepare and dispense medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detect therapeutic incompatibilities
- Perform Medication Therapy Management (MTM), including:
- Reviewing and monitoring medication regimens
- Advising clinicians on evidence-based therapies
- Documenting interventions
- Provide patient counseling and clinical support
- Make referrals to other healthcare professionals when necessary
⚙️ Operational Excellence
- Complete pharmacy operational requirements by:
- Organizing and directing technicians’ workflow
- Verifying preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals
- Verifying prescriptions
- Coordinate patient care, including:
- Identifying and resolving insurance-related issues
- Recognizing opportunities for financial assistance programs
- Manage, organize, and update relevant data using database systems
🛡️ Compliance & Regulatory
- Ensure compliance with:
- State Board of Pharmacy regulations
- DEA regulations
- Company policies and procedures
- Maintain controlled substance records
- Remove outdated or damaged medications from inventory
- Supervise support personnel work quality
- Maintain licensure and stay current on legislation
- Ensure adherence to:
- 340B program compliance
- Specialty pharmacy accreditation standards
- Medication safety protocols
📈 Continuous Improvement
- Identify trends, resolve problems, and recommend process improvements
- Actively participate in process improvement initiatives
- Apply insights to enhance productivity, quality, and customer service
- Support organizational excellence through innovation and change implementation
🎓 Education & Leadership
- Participate in ongoing professional development
- Train and mentor:
- Pharmacy staff
- Students, interns, externs, and residents
- Healthcare professionals
- Maintain professional networks and stay current through publications and organizations
🤝 Organizational Contribution
- Protect organizational value by maintaining strict confidentiality
- Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to support business needs
- Perform additional duties as assigned
- Contribute positively to team culture and company success
🎯 Qualifications & Experience
🎓 Education & Licensure
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or BS in Pharmacy
- Active Pharmacist license in the applicable state
📊 Experience
- ✅ Required: 1+ years in retail or specialty pharmacy
- ⭐ Preferred: 5+ years in a dispensing or specialty setting
🧠 Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of:
- Pharmacology
- FDA regulations
- Clinical best practices
- Ability to:
- Analyze information and exercise sound judgment
- Accurately administer and review medications
- Manage workflows and processes efficiently
- Leadership and team management capabilities
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Advanced computer proficiency
💡 Personal Attributes
- Organized, dependable, and high-integrity
- Empathetic and patient-focused
- Excellent listener and communicator
- Energetic, highly motivated, and team-oriented
- Maintains discretion when handling sensitive information
💰 Compensation & Benefits
💵 Salary Range: $125,000 – $159,000 annually
🎯 Bonus eligibility based on applicable plans
Compensation is determined by experience, seniority, geographic location, and other lawful factors.
🌍 Equal Opportunity & Transparency
This information is provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Shields Health Solutions.
🚀 Why Join Us?
Be part of a forward-thinking pharmacy team where your expertise directly impacts patient outcomes, innovation, and quality care delivery.
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- Do you hold a current/active Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or BS in Pharmacy and are you a licensed Pharmacist for the state of Massachusetts?
- This is a 2nd shift role - please confirm that you are willing and able to work between 4PM and 8PM, Monday through Friday with weekends, as needed.
- Are you authorized to work in the United States?
- Do you now or in the future require sponsorship to continue to be eligible to work in the United States? (Including transfers) or Are you an F-1 non immigrant whose eligibility to work is based on optional practical training (OPT) and you require company cooperation in completing a Form I-983 training plan for STEM-OPT employment?
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