Pharmacist

• Lead the development and implementation of strategic pharmacy initiatives across the Beth Israel Lahey Health system and member institutions
• Manage and refine the enterprise strategic planning function for pharmacy services
• Lead and participate in cross-institutional projects with multiple stakeholders
• Establish project timelines, goals, objectives, and milestones
• Direct process improvement activities and create efficiencies
• Develop and implement project tracking and monitoring tools
• Direct cross-functional business development assessments and finalization
• Evaluate business development opportunities within pharmacy services strategy
• Prepare and present business opportunities to senior leadership
• Cultivate long-term collaborative relationships with stakeholders and other organizations
• Mediate and negotiate with internal and external individuals and groups
• Establish organizational communication, development, and governance processes
• Provide motivation, coaching, guidance, feedback, and mentoring to teams
• Oversee contracted environmental services, security, and maintenance

Director, Pharmacy Strategy Planning

• Answer telephone calls and triage customer requests to pharmacist staff
• Triage pharmacy window requests
• Deliver medications to patient care areas and pick up physician orders and returned medications
• Complete scheduled rounds on patient care areas
• Manage inventory, including ordering, receiving, storing, labeling, and checking expiration dates of medications and supplies
• Package unit-dose medications with appropriate labeling
• Pre-pack bulk medications and compound ointments, creams, oral solutions, and other medications as needed
• Complete drug distribution tasks under pharmacist supervision
• Operate and maintain Pyxis distribution systems, including refilling, loading, inventory maintenance, expiration dating, troubleshooting, customer service resolution, and controlled-substance discrepancy assistance
• Assist with Pyxis inventory optimization and identify quality and customer-service improvements
• Train colleagues and technical staff as needed
• Complete IV room distribution assignments following USP 797 standards and pharmacy policies
• Prepare patient-specific IV medications, batch IV products, parenterals, syringes, infusions, TPNs, and other IV preparations
• Complete IV room quality-control tasks, including hood-cleaning documentation, temperature logs, and daily cleaning
• Complete TPN and chemotherapy production according to internal policies and procedures
• Complete nursing-unit inspections and identify safety, quality, workflow, and efficiency improvements
• Act as a pharmacy liaison while delivering medications to patient care areas
• Troubleshoot drug-distribution issues for nursing
• Provide customer service to nursing and pharmacy teams
• Participate in departmental and interdisciplinary teams, goals, objectives, and process improvements
• Comply with departmental policies, health and safety regulations, documentation requirements, and attendance standards
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Pharmacy Technician – Per Diem

• Perform medication-related tasks under the direct supervision of a technician supervisor and pharmacist
• Package and prepare all forms of medications
• Process orders using the pharmacy computer system
• Deliver patient medications and stock automated medication stations (Pyxis machines)
• Troubleshoot routine technical problems with pharmacy technology and equipment
• Prepare sterile products using aseptic technique, including parenteral nutrition, antibiotics, and other IV drugs
• Maintain inventory, reorder and restock medications, and monitor expiration dates
• Maintain required documentation and patient confidentiality
• Assist in generating pharmacy reports
• Conduct medication room inspections
• Assemble drugs accurately and efficiently for pharmacist review
• Repackage bulk drugs in unit-of-use containers
• Assist with quality indicator monitoring and yearly inventory
• Participate in problem-solving, operational improvement, Continuous Quality Improvement activities, and teams
• Comply with departmental policies, procedures, objectives, and regulatory requirements
• Attend required meetings, conferences, and seminars
• Maintain a clean, orderly, professional, tolerant, civil, and accepting work environment
• Perform other similar and related duties as required or directed

Certified Pharmacy Technician

• Perform benefit investigations, including running test claims, submitting prior authorizations, documenting patient charts, and conducting patient outreach and follow-up calls
• Complete benefit investigations requested by the Advanced Therapeutics PharmD and APP team and document results in the electronic medical record
• Submit prior authorizations online and by telephone; appeal decisions and follow up with insurers
• Communicate manufacturer patient savings opportunities to providers and patients
• Contact patients regarding insurance decisions, rejections, and prescription-filling information
• Maintain perpetual inventory of appropriate medications from internal pharmacies and communicate updates to the clinic team daily
• Coordinate prescription delivery with patients and Home Delivery pharmacy and queue prescriptions for the home delivery team
• Maintain a clean work area and assist with quality-indicator monitoring
• Identify problems and improvement areas, assist with problem-solving projects, improve operations, and participate in Continuous Quality Improvement activities and teams
• Work under the direct supervision of the operations manager

Pharmacy Technician Liaison, Advanced Therapeutics

• Support the pharmacy team in delivering operational and service excellence
• Serve as a first point of contact for patients and customers
• Follow pharmacy workflow procedures for production, pick-up, drive-thru, and drop-off
• Fulfill prescriptions promptly, safely, and accurately
• Provide caring, empathetic, and personalized patient service
• Offer immunizations and other services at the register and over the phone
• Solve or escalate patient problems
• Complete inventory activities, including medication deliveries, cycle counts, returns-to-stocks, and waiting-bin inventories
• Follow company SOPs and comply with federal, state, and local laws and CVS policies
• Contribute to a safe, inclusive, and engaging team environment
• Travel voluntarily to market stores to work shifts as needed
• Deliver additional health care services, including immunizations, point-of-care testing, and offsite clinics where permitted
• Complete additional licensure and training to obtain Technician Immunizer status where applicable
• Educate patients about vaccines and refer vaccination questions to the Pharmacist-on-duty
• Monitor and respond to adverse reactions and report events
• Review, collect, track, and document patient information
• Monitor and manage vaccine supplies
• Perform additional tasks as directed by a Supervisor or Manager

Pharmacy Technician

• Support the pharmacy team in delivering operational and service excellence
• Serve as an initial point of contact for patients and customers
• Follow company SOPs and pharmacy workflow procedures
• Fulfill prescriptions promptly, safely, and accurately across production, pickup, drive-thru, and drop-off workstations
• Provide empathetic, personalized patient service and resolve or escalate patient problems
• Offer immunizations and other services where permitted
• Complete inventory activities including medication deliveries, cycle counts, returns-to-stocks, and waiting-bin inventories
• Expand clinical and technical knowledge and respond to feedback
• Maintain scheduling flexibility and voluntarily travel to nearby market stores for shifts as needed
• Comply with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, professional standards, ethics, and CVS policies
• Deliver additional services such as immunizations, point-of-care testing, and offsite clinics when legally permitted and appropriately trained
• Where permitted, obtain Technician Immunizer status and support vaccine preparation and administration
• Educate patients about vaccines and refer vaccination questions to the Pharmacist-on-duty
• Monitor and respond to adverse vaccine reactions and report events
• Review and collect patient information and maintain documentation
• Monitor and manage vaccine supplies
• Perform additional tasks assigned by the Supervisor or Manager

• Serve as a leader in clinical pharmacy practice in anticoagulation and other clinical areas as determined by hospital needs
• Provide comprehensive clinical and distributive medication management services
• Use advanced clinical skills to provide evidence-based, safe, and cost-effective drug therapy
• Serve as a drug information and educational resource for pharmacy staff, patients, residents/students, medical staff, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals
• Participate in developing clinical guidelines/protocols and new programs/services
• Facilitate professional development activities
• Practice pharmacy in accordance with Massachusetts regulations, departmental policies, and applicable federal requirements
• Monitor patients in specific units/specialty services by collecting patient data, interpreting laboratory data, performing physical assessments, interviewing patients, and identifying therapy goals
• Develop, administer, and improve ambulatory pharmacy programs and services
• Independently develop drug use evaluations, ADR reporting, clinic development and management, and business plans
• Initiate, adjust, monitor, and recommend drug therapy changes under protocol
• Document clinical interventions in the electronic health record
• Coordinate and interpret laboratory monitoring, including serum drug levels and electrolytes
• Monitor and optimize patient outcomes, drug utilization, and compliance while detecting or minimizing ADRs and unnecessary drug use
• Coordinate continuing education for medical and nursing staff and orient new pharmacy employees
• Contribute to pharmacy newsletters, journal clubs, and professional in-services
• Precept PGY1 and PGY2 residents and pharmacy students
• Contribute to staff development and collaborate with clinical pharmacy specialists to improve pharmacy skills and workflows
• Work Monday to Friday on the day shift

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Anticoagulation

• Process medication orders entered by prescribers
• Provide medications promptly and accurately for patient administration
• Supply timely and accurate medication information to healthcare workers and patients
• Represent Pharmacy on key programs, including nutrition support and the Safety Committee
• Act as a liaison, serve on committees, recommend policies and procedures, and review drug and supply requirements
• Coordinate daily workload with department needs
• Check medication fills, including cassettes, Omnicells, and floor stock
• Prepare and process IV admixtures
• Process sufficient quantities of prescriber medication orders
• Provide drug consultations to healthcare personnel and patients
• Detect and document adverse drug events, including adverse reactions, medication errors, and near misses
• Perform and document target drug interventions
• Maintain necessary records
• Provide training and in-service education to Pharmacy, Nursing, and medical staff
• Ensure proper drug security and control
• Complete assigned medication inventory duties
• Perform additional duties as requested by the Pharmacy Director or Assistant Director

Pharmacist jobs in Massachusetts

Director, Pharmacy Strategy Planning

Pharmacy Technician – Per Diem

Certified Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician Liaison, Advanced Therapeutics

Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Anticoagulation

Senior Pharmacist