Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
Arroyo Grande, CAJob$72.88–108.42/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Clinical Pharmacist Specialist provides leadership and clinical pharmacy services, implements pharmacy initiatives, and establishes and maintains clinical pharmacy programs. The role mentors staff pharmacists, educates pharmacy residents and students, supports service lines, and collaborates with facility pharmacy leadership on campus initiatives. It also promotes planning, standardization, evidence-based pharmaceutical care, committee participation, and regulatory compliance.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
This position is responsible for providing leadership and clinical pharmacy services, including the implementation of System, Region, and Facility Pharmacy Services initiatives. The incumbent will provide leadership in establishing and maintaining clinical pharmacy programs, mentor staff pharmacists to clinical pharmacy activities, educate pharmacy residents and students affiliated with the facility, provide clinical pharmacy support to one or more Service Lines, and collaborate with the facility Pharmacy leadership team in establishing action plans to support department initiatives at the campus level. Ensures that all actions taken and methods to produce the results outlined below incorporate and promote CSH’s mission, vision, and values.
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Promotes long and short-range planning to respond and integrate within the market, Region, and system.
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Works collaboratively with pharmacy peers to standardize clinical pharmacy systems when appropriate
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Works, as directed by facility pharmacy leadership, on developing, coaching and mentoring pharmacy staff to maximize their scope of practice in the provision of clinical pharmacy services and scholarly activities across the continuum of care.
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Educates the medical staff regarding cost-effective, quality pharmaceutical care based on evidence based medicine and best practices.
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Participates in assigned committees relevant to their knowledge, experience and practice area
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Assures that clinical pharmacy initiatives are in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Job Requirements
Required
Education and Experience
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Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree
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Residency completion or 3 years of clinical experience
Licensure and Certifications
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Active State Pharmacist License in good standing in the state in which the employee works: PHARM:CA
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Board Certification (e.g. BCCP, BCPS) required within 3 years of hire - any incumbents would not be required to obtain board certification
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AHA BLS-CPR
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AHA ACLS
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training
- Must possess strong knowledge of Pharmacy Services; knowledgeable and skilled in current practice concepts of different pharmacy practice settings; strong knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and professional standards; strong project management skills; good strategic planning skills; strong change management skills; must demonstrate personal traits of a high level of motivation; team orientation; professionalism; trust; and place a high value on treating others with dignity and respect.
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.
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Pay Range
$72.88 - $108.42 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,539 open Clinical Pharmacist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$72.88–108.42/hr
- California median$83–116/hr84 hourly ranges
- US median$61–84/hr601 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $90.65/hr, is 9% below the California median midpoint ($99/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Clinical Pharmacist hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 101 open Clinical Pharmacist jobs in California and 1,539 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health38 open
- Stanford Health Care10 open
- Sharp HealthCare9 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Clinical Pharmacist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (634 postings).
- Education
- 807 of the 1,539 open Clinical Pharmacist jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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