Mid Level Lead Clinical Pharmacist Jobs
Mid level lead clinical pharmacist jobs go to pharmacists ready to own medication management initiatives, guide pharmacy technicians and residents, and make formulary decisions with limited oversight. Hiring runs across Healthcare & Medical Services, Education, and Insurance, with a mix of on-site, hybrid, and remote settings, with employers like Sutter Health, UW Health, and Cone Health competing for lead clinical pharmacists at this level now.
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Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist, Emergency Department | UPMC Hamot
Join UPMC Hamot as a Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist and play a vital role in providing high-quality pharmaceutical care in a fast-paced clinical environment. This position is dedicated to supporting emergency medicine services while collaborating closely with physicians, nurses, and interdisciplinary healthcare team members to optimize patient outcomes.
Schedule:
- Full-time, Night Shift
- 7-on/7-off schedule
- 10-hour shifts (70 hours worked, paid for 80 hours)
- Shift hours: 9:30 PM to 7:30 AM
- Weekend and holiday rotation required
Preferred Experience
Candidates with the following experience are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Acute care hospital pharmacy practice
- Emergency medicine or critical care pharmacy services
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
- Medication safety initiatives and regulatory compliance
- Clinical decision-making and evidence-based pharmacotherapy
- Pharmacy technology and workflow optimization
Preferred Qualifications
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or a minimum of three years of clinical pharmacy experience
- Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) certification preferred
- Previous emergency medicine pharmacy experience preferred
Why Join UPMC Hamot?
- Opportunity to work within a nationally recognized, innovative health system
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary healthcare teams
- Active involvement in clinical and operational pharmacy initiatives
- Participation in quality improvement and patient safety programs
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- Exposure to advanced pharmacy technology and evolving clinical practices
Position Overview
The Clinical Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care services to patients within the emergency setting. This role works collaboratively with providers and clinical staff to ensure safe, effective, and evidence-based medication use. The pharmacist serves as a clinical resource, supports quality and safety initiatives, contributes to departmental goals, and promotes optimal patient outcomes through direct patient care and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Job title and salary will be determined based on qualifications and career ladder placement.
Responsibilities:
- Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs.
- Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards.
- Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs.
- Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices.
- Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice.
- Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control.
- Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs.
- Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs.
- Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs.
- Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care.
- Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety.
- Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations.
- Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
- Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate.
- Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center.
- Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems.
- Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs.
- Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures.
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff.
- Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs.
- Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing.
- Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment.
- Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment.
- Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities.
- Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement.
- Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills.
- Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities.
- Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs.
- Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy.
- B.S. degree in Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; PharmD preferred.
- Required: Current licensure as a Pharmacist in practicing state.
- Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or 3 years clinical pharmacy experience.
- Knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice and service, comprehensive medication management, and evidence-based medicine in specialized area appropriate for clinical assignments.
- BPS Board Certification preferred.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Pharmacist
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist, Emergency Department | UPMC Hamot
Join UPMC Hamot as a Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist and play a vital role in providing high-quality pharmaceutical care in a fast-paced clinical environment. This position is dedicated to supporting emergency medicine services while collaborating closely with physicians, nurses, and interdisciplinary healthcare team members to optimize patient outcomes.
Schedule:
- Full-time, Night Shift
- 7-on/7-off schedule
- 10-hour shifts (70 hours worked, paid for 80 hours)
- Shift hours: 9:30 PM to 7:30 AM
- Weekend and holiday rotation required
Preferred Experience
Candidates with the following experience are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Acute care hospital pharmacy practice
- Emergency medicine or critical care pharmacy services
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
- Medication safety initiatives and regulatory compliance
- Clinical decision-making and evidence-based pharmacotherapy
- Pharmacy technology and workflow optimization
Preferred Qualifications
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or a minimum of three years of clinical pharmacy experience
- Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) certification preferred
- Previous emergency medicine pharmacy experience preferred
Why Join UPMC Hamot?
- Opportunity to work within a nationally recognized, innovative health system
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary healthcare teams
- Active involvement in clinical and operational pharmacy initiatives
- Participation in quality improvement and patient safety programs
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- Exposure to advanced pharmacy technology and evolving clinical practices
Position Overview
The Clinical Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care services to patients within the emergency setting. This role works collaboratively with providers and clinical staff to ensure safe, effective, and evidence-based medication use. The pharmacist serves as a clinical resource, supports quality and safety initiatives, contributes to departmental goals, and promotes optimal patient outcomes through direct patient care and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Job title and salary will be determined based on qualifications and career ladder placement.
Responsibilities:
- Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs.
- Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards.
- Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs.
- Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices.
- Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice.
- Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control.
- Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs.
- Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs.
- Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs.
- Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care.
- Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety.
- Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations.
- Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
- Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate.
- Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center.
- Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems.
- Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs.
- Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures.
- Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff.
- Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs.
- Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing.
- Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment.
- Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment.
- Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities.
- Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement.
- Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills.
- Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities.
- Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs.
- Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy.
- B.S. degree in Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; PharmD preferred.
- Required: Current licensure as a Pharmacist in practicing state.
- Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or 3 years clinical pharmacy experience.
- Knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice and service, comprehensive medication management, and evidence-based medicine in specialized area appropriate for clinical assignments.
- BPS Board Certification preferred.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Pharmacist
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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Mid Level Lead Clinical Pharmacist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level lead clinical pharmacist job?
Position yourself by highlighting ownership, not just participation. Emphasize clinical programs you led, protocols you developed, or interdisciplinary teams you coordinated. Tailor your resume to show measurable outcomes, such as improved patient adherence rates or reduced medication errors. Certifications like BPS specialty credentials and experience with formulary management or antimicrobial stewardship signal readiness for a lead role at this level.
Which companies hire mid level lead clinical pharmacists?
Companies hiring mid level lead clinical pharmacists right now include Sutter Health, UW Health, and Cone Health, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to come from health systems, integrated hospital networks, specialty pharmacy groups, and large retail pharmacy chains building out their clinical leadership teams.
Are there remote mid level lead clinical pharmacist jobs?
Yes, though the role is predominantly on-site or hybrid given the clinical coordination it requires. About 12% of mid level lead clinical pharmacist openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with fully remote roles most common in utilization management, medication therapy management, and payer-side clinical pharmacy programs.
How do I move up to a mid level lead clinical pharmacist role?
Progression from entry level to mid level comes from deliberately building ownership over your first few years. Take on project-based responsibilities like developing clinical guidelines, precepting students, or leading quality improvement initiatives. Gaining a board certification, completing a PGY-2 residency, or demonstrating consistent impact on patient outcomes and pharmacy operations are the signals that move pharmacists from staff to lead roles.
Which industries hire the most mid level lead clinical pharmacists?
Mid Level lead clinical pharmacist roles concentrate in Healthcare & Medical Services, Education, and Insurance, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they require clinical pharmacists who can independently manage complex medication regimens, lead multidisciplinary care teams, and ensure regulatory compliance across high-volume patient populations.