General Information

Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA Work Schedule Varied 10-hour shifts, depending on department needs, including weekends and holidays Posted Date 10/06/2026 Salary Range: $95.61 - 112.00 Hourly Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career Duration Indefinite Job # 33378

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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!

In this key role, you will work across multiple pharmacy locations, primarily the intensive care unit, on a variety of shifts, including float shifts. As a Critical Care Pharmacist, you will respond to codes, review and verify medication orders, patient medical records, and medication profiles, and optimize safe medication therapy. You will interact and/or round with other health professionals to promote the safe and effective use of medications, and provide clinical services to neonatal, pediatric, and adult patients in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, including pharmacokinetic dosing, therapeutic interchange, IV/PO conversions, TPN and aminoglycoside monitoring, and pharmacist interventions. You will also prepare and dispense medications in all inpatient settings, counsel patients on appropriate drug use, and oversee the dispensing, return, and waste of controlled substances on your assigned shift/unit. Working in assigned centralized and decentralized pharmacy areas and patient care units, you will complete operational and clinical projects as assigned by Pharmacy Management.

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 290 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 10-hour shifts, depending on department needs, including weekends and holidaysHourly Salary Range: $95.61-$112.00Bargaining Unit: HX-UPTE

Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a dedicated clinical professional with:

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree required
• Active California Pharmacist license required
• Minimum 2 years of hospital inpatient experience or completion of an ASHP-accredited residency
• PGY2 residency training in Critical Care or related field strongly preferred
• Knowledge of and ability to perform age specific and disease specific pharmacokinetic calculations.
• Skill in preparing sterile intravenous hazardous and non-hazardous medications, using aseptic technique and following approved policies and procedures.  
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organizational and follow-through skills

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.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.