Float Pharmacist

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Fully On-Site

Work Schedule

varied shifts, depending on department needs, including weekends and holidays

Posted Date

08/25/2025

Salary Range: $91.06 - 106.67 Hourly

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

career

Job #

26302

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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You bring more than skill, knowledge, and expertise to your role as an allied health professional. You bring a deep passion for improving the lives of everyone around you. At UCLA Health, we're committed to fostering a working environment where you are supported and empowered to be your best. You'll love it here!

As a Float Pharmacist at UCLA Health, you'll play a vital role in delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care across our inpatient settings. Working under supervision, you'll prepare and dispense medications, maintain and review patient medication profiles, and counsel patients on appropriate drug use. You'll collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, and other health professionals to ensure optimal therapy and prevent misuse or medication errors. In addition, you'll provide a wide range of clinical pharmacy services, including pharmacokinetic dosing, therapeutic interchange, IV/PO conversions, TPN management, and pharmacist-led interventions, in alignment with departmental policies and best practices.

At UCLA Health, passionate clinicians in a wide range of disciplines have enabled us to become a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and more than 270 community clinics throughout Southern California. We're also home to the world-class medical research and clinical education capabilities of the David Geffen School of Medicine. If you're looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, come to UCLA Health.

Schedule: varied shifts, depending on department needs, including weekends and holidays

Hourly Salary Range: $85.87 - $100.58 (Union represented, step-based salary depending on years of experience)

Bargaining Unit: HX-UPTE

Job Qualifications

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We're seeking a dedicated clinical professional with:

• Pharm D. degree and current CA Pharmacy license
• ASHP-accredited residency (preferred).
• 2 years inpatient pharmacy experience
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organizational and follow-through skills.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform age specific and disease specific pharmacokinetic calculations.
• Ability to compound intravenous admixtures and other sterile products.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.