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In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for helping to interpret, maintain, and implement clinical practice standing orders, drug therapy management protocols and guidelines (e.g., collaborative protocols with providers); coordinating interrelated trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students; independently providing direct patient care for medication initiation, medication selection, dosage titration, drug monitoring, patient engagement, medication adherence counseling, side effect management, medication discontinuation, with occasional review; regularly collaborating with providers to align drug conversion, drug tapering, and discontinuation initiatives and determine opportunities; independently adhering to initiative implementation of processes and workflow for assigned service areas; following formulary adherence guidelines, seeking input when needed; and implementing new services for a disease state or care grouping/specialty (e.g., MTM) with general understanding of strategy and services, seeking guidance when needed.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
- Supports drug education and training efforts by: coordinating interrelated trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students.
- Supports pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: developing and sustaining productive relationships with care providers and members; providing standard and nonstandard case-specific drug information (e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling) to health care providers and members, with regular review; following designated drug therapy needs of patients and/or monitoring progress of therapy through interviews, physical assessment, patient education and clinical laboratory monitoring, with limited guidance; collecting, analyzing, and presenting standard and nonstandard therapeutic outcomes to health care providers to help identify possible drug plan improvements, independently; implementing, tracking, evaluating and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes to evaluate impact of initiative work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; developing, implementing, and analyzing clinicians decisions, support, and feedback using tools, effectively engaging support for the drug use management process; and independently coordinating standard and nonstandard pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from acute and ambulatory patient-care settings.
- Leverages, maintains, and complies with all internal and external quality, safety, emergency, and accreditation policy and procedures by: adhering to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) and relevant internal regional and national policies; ensuring patient safety in the preparation and provisioning of care (e.g., medications, procedures, infection prevention), regularly sharing work with team and manager, including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs; reporting safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions; and collaborating with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to provide information about and assure quality and process outcome measures.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND completion of a Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) residency at time of hire AND minimum one (1) year of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field OR Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND minimum three (3) years of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field.
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National Provider Identifier within 6 months of hire
- Pharmacist License (Nevada) required at hire
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Cost Optimization; Confidentiality; External Health Care Compliance
- One (1) year of clinical pharmacy experience.
- Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY2) residency or fellowship.
PrimaryLocation : Nevada,Reno,Fifth Street Medical Offices
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : M-F
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-NV-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Pharmaceutical Services
Department : Reno 803 W 5th St - Clinical Pharm- Primary Care - 3841
Travel : Yes, 15 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for helping to interpret, maintain, and implement clinical practice standing orders, drug therapy management protocols and guidelines (e.g., collaborative protocols with providers); coordinating interrelated trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students; independently providing direct patient care for medication initiation, medication selection, dosage titration, drug monitoring, patient engagement, medication adherence counseling, side effect management, medication discontinuation, with occasional review; regularly collaborating with providers to align drug conversion, drug tapering, and discontinuation initiatives and determine opportunities; independently adhering to initiative implementation of processes and workflow for assigned service areas; following formulary adherence guidelines, seeking input when needed; and implementing new services for a disease state or care grouping/specialty (e.g., MTM) with general understanding of strategy and services, seeking guidance when needed.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
- Supports drug education and training efforts by: coordinating interrelated trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students.
- Supports pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: developing and sustaining productive relationships with care providers and members; providing standard and nonstandard case-specific drug information (e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling) to health care providers and members, with regular review; following designated drug therapy needs of patients and/or monitoring progress of therapy through interviews, physical assessment, patient education and clinical laboratory monitoring, with limited guidance; collecting, analyzing, and presenting standard and nonstandard therapeutic outcomes to health care providers to help identify possible drug plan improvements, independently; implementing, tracking, evaluating and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes to evaluate impact of initiative work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; developing, implementing, and analyzing clinicians decisions, support, and feedback using tools, effectively engaging support for the drug use management process; and independently coordinating standard and nonstandard pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from acute and ambulatory patient-care settings.
- Leverages, maintains, and complies with all internal and external quality, safety, emergency, and accreditation policy and procedures by: adhering to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) and relevant internal regional and national policies; ensuring patient safety in the preparation and provisioning of care (e.g., medications, procedures, infection prevention), regularly sharing work with team and manager, including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs; reporting safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions; and collaborating with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to provide information about and assure quality and process outcome measures.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND completion of a Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) residency at time of hire AND minimum one (1) year of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field OR Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND minimum three (3) years of experience as a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacist Intern in pharmacy or a directly related field.
-
National Provider Identifier within 6 months of hire
- Pharmacist License (Nevada) required at hire
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Cost Optimization; Confidentiality; External Health Care Compliance
- One (1) year of clinical pharmacy experience.
- Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY2) residency or fellowship.
PrimaryLocation : Nevada,Reno,Fifth Street Medical Offices
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : M-F
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-NV-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Pharmaceutical Services
Department : Reno 803 W 5th St - Clinical Pharm- Primary Care - 3841
Travel : Yes, 15 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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Who's Hiring
- Cleveland Clinic13
- University Hospitals11
- Memorial Healthcare System11
- University of Maryland Medical System8
- Houston Methodist7
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services49
- Education4
- Science & Research4
- Non-Profit & Social Services2
- Transportation & Logistics1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in clinical pharmacy specialist jobs.
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited program required
- Active and unrestricted state pharmacist license in the state of practice
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program
- PGY2 specialty residency or equivalent clinical specialist experience preferred
- Board certification in a relevant specialty such as BCPS, BCOP, or BCCCP
- Experience developing or managing clinical protocols, drug use evaluations, or formulary reviews
Tips for Your Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Job Search
Tailor your CV to practice settings
Hospitals and ambulatory care clinics screen for different clinical competencies. Align your CV to the setting by foregrounding inpatient medication management for acute-care roles and chronic disease protocols for outpatient or specialty clinic postings.
List your specialty certifications prominently
Board certifications like BCPS, BCOP, or BCCCP carry real screening weight. Place them immediately after your name and credentials, not buried in a separate section, so hiring managers spot them in the first scan.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists clinical pharmacy specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that name your therapeutic area
Job titles vary widely: some postings say clinical pharmacy specialist, others say clinical pharmacist or pharmacy practice specialist. Search by therapeutic area, such as oncology or critical care, to surface roles your title search might miss.
Prepare protocol-based case examples for interviews
Interviewers for specialist roles frequently ask you to walk through a clinical scenario or a protocol you developed. Prepare two or three structured examples using SBAR format, with specific outcomes like formulary cost savings or adverse event reductions.
Follow up on collaborative practice agreements
If a role involves prescriptive authority or collaborative practice agreements, ask during the offer stage which protocols are already in place and how long credentialing typically takes. This signals clinical readiness and helps you avoid delays in starting patient care duties.
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most clinical pharmacy specialists?
The most active employers for clinical pharmacy specialists right now are Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and Memorial Healthcare System, and the most openings are in Florida, Ohio, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Large academic health systems and integrated hospital networks tend to post the highest volume of specialist-level openings.
How many clinical pharmacy specialist jobs are remote?
About 27% of clinical pharmacy specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though direct patient care roles are almost exclusively on-site. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements include managed care pharmacy, medication therapy management, and population health programs that do not require bedside rounding.
How do you become a clinical pharmacy specialist?
You start by earning a Doctor of Pharmacy from an accredited program, then complete a PGY1 general pharmacy residency to build a broad clinical foundation. From there, a PGY2 specialty residency in your target area, such as oncology or critical care, is the most direct path to specialist-level roles. Sitting for the relevant board certification exam after residency strengthens your candidacy considerably.
Can you get hired as a clinical pharmacy specialist without specialist experience?
Some health systems will hire candidates who have strong PGY1 residency training and board certification but no formal PGY2 experience, particularly in settings with structured mentorship or in therapeutic areas with high demand. Demonstrating project leadership during residency, such as a drug use evaluation or a formulary presentation, helps offset limited post-training experience when applying to entry-level specialist postings.
What does the clinical pharmacy specialist interview process look like?
Most health systems run a multi-stage process that begins with a phone screen from HR or a pharmacy director, followed by a clinical panel interview with pharmacists, physicians, and sometimes nursing staff. Many programs include a case presentation or journal club component where you work through a patient scenario or evaluate a clinical study. Final rounds often involve a tour of the practice area and a conversation about research or quality improvement expectations.
Where can I find and apply to clinical pharmacy specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to clinical pharmacy specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that match your specialty area and experience level, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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