As a Pharmacist at Cottage Health, you'll provide pharmaceutical care, manage clinic operations, and work closely with medical professionals to ensure patient safety and excellence in care.
Join Cottage Health as a Pharmacist. As a Pharmacist, you will provide appropriate Pharmaceutical care to patients and staff of Cottage Hospital including distributive as well as clinical pharmacy functions. At Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, scheduling is geared to provide a comfortable work/life balance with 10-hour shifts. We have a decentralized clinical program and our health system is committed to maintaining state of the art pharmaceutical services. New hires receive a six-week intensive clinical pharmacy orientation and training program.
We enjoy outstanding relationships with our nursing and physician colleagues. Our upbeat atmosphere fosters learning, improvements in patient safety and outstanding pharmaceutical care.
Our benefits program is called Choices…for Health…for Wealth…for Life. We take great pride in continuously evaluating our Choices program to offer the most competitive benefits in the health care industry. We offer employees excellent traditional benefit plans like medical, dental, life insurance, and disability coverage, along with a leading-edge Wellness Program of health improvement opportunities. The program provides tools that allow you to bring the same attention to your health that Cottage Health does to the health of our patients.
Qualifications
We enjoy outstanding relationships with our nursing and physician colleagues. Our upbeat atmosphere fosters learning, improvements in patient safety and outstanding pharmaceutical care.
Our benefits program is called Choices…for Health…for Wealth…for Life. We take great pride in continuously evaluating our Choices program to offer the most competitive benefits in the health care industry. We offer employees excellent traditional benefit plans like medical, dental, life insurance, and disability coverage, along with a leading-edge Wellness Program of health improvement opportunities. The program provides tools that allow you to bring the same attention to your health that Cottage Health does to the health of our patients.
Qualifications
- Current California Pharmacist license
- 3 years of hospital pharmacy experience or completion of a PGY-1 residency preferred
Cottage Health is a leading acute care hospital system, located on the central coast of California, widely known for our superior patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health system operates primarily in Santa Barbara, CA, since 1888, and consists of three acute care hospitals, a Rehabilitation Hospital, multiple clinics and a multi-site Urgent Care system. Our mission is to serve the central coast communities with excellence, integrity, and compassion. Every day we touch thousands of lives in many different ways, resolute in our mission to put patients first. We take pride in helping our patients get back to living their lives - in the places they love.
*Pay for non-physician positions is determined based on related years of experience and internal equity. Eligible employees may also receive additional forms of compensation, including shift differentials, on-call pay, incentive pay, and bonus opportunities, where applicable. Manager and above positions may participate in Cottage Health’s annual management incentive program. Physician compensation is determined based upon specialty and may include bonus potential. For more information on our comprehensive Total Rewards offerings, please visit https://cottagehealth.org/careers/total-rewards.
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