Clinical Pharmacist - Medication Quality, Performance Improve & Safety

This is afoundational, enterprise-impact role designed to strengthen medication safety, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness across UVA Health. As a key member of a growing team, you will directly support system-wide initiatives that ensure safe, effective, and data-driven pharmacy practices across inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory, and specialty settings.

In this newly created role, you will collaborate closely with pharmacists and operational leaders to transform complex data into actionable insights. This position is ideal for a pharmacist or pharmacy professional with a strong interest inmedication safety, compliance, process improvement, and cross-setting pharmacy operations .

The Role

This role sits within theInpatient Pharmacy cost center while supporting enterprise-wide operations , reflecting UVA Health's integrated approach to medication safety and regulatory excellence. You will serve as a key operational partner to pharmacists, helping advance audit readiness and strengthen compliance infrastructure across diverse care settings.

On a typical day, you will blenddata analysis, clinical insight, and process improvement to support medication safety initiatives and reporting needs.

What you will do

• Partner with pharmacists to support daily reporting, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance efforts
• Review patient charts and complex datasets to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement
• Analyze and interpret medication-related data across ambulatory, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty environments
• Develop structured reports, dashboards, and breakdowns that inform medication safety and operational decisions
• Support process improvement initiatives , particularly in ambulatory and outpatient medication safety workflows
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to enhance safe medication use practices across the enterprise
• Contribute to evolving workflows in a newly established role , helping shape how this function grows within UVA Health

Why UVA Health

• Academic Excellence & Innovation
  Work within a Magnet Recognized academic medical center and part of a health system consistently recognized by U.S. News & World Report for high-performing specialties and programs.
• Enterprise Impact
  This role supports medication safety across inpatient, ambulatory, outpatient, and specialty pharmacy services , offering a broad and unique systems-level perspective .
• Build Something New
  As a newly created position , you will help define workflows, support audit readiness initiatives, and shape how medication safety data is leveraged across the organization.
• Professional Growth in Medication Safety
  Ideal for candidates with ambulatory or operational pharmacy experience looking to deepen expertise in compliance, informatics, and med safety , with opportunities to expand into specialized focus areas over time.
• Collaborative, Expert Team Environment
  Join a highly engaged pharmacy team that values process improvement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and continuous learning .

Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education: Bachelor's in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. from an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy is required.
• Experience: No experience required. PGY-1 residency or equivalent clinical experience preferred.
• Licensure: Virginia State Board of Pharmacy License or within 60 days of hire. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.
• Physical demands: Job requires sitting for prolonged periods; repetitive motion: typing. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; attention to detail and ability to write legibly; ability to lift/push/pull less than 20 lbs. May be exposed to fumes, chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The pay range for this role is $64.37 - $87.33 hourly. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.

Job Profile

J1735 - Pharmacist I

Career Stream and Level

Clinical Professional-C2

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