Pharmacy Careers

Outpatient

Working directly with our members, you’ll perform critical roles that could include filling prescriptions for patients, safeguarding controlled substances, and providing medication therapy management. You’ll also share your skills with patients, physicians, and colleagues.

Call Center and Mail Order

While taking inbound calls from our members and fulfilling orders, this team directly communicates with physicians and works in a collaborative environment. As part of an integrated health care system, our telepharmacy/mail order services provide our members with time saving options to meet their pharmacy needs.

Inpatient

While collaborating regionally and locally with physicians and other members of the integrated care team, you’ll help manage all aspects of drug therapy in both central and satellite pharmacy settings. This could include distributing medications, rounding with care teams, monitoring therapy, and providing pharmacy consultations. Additionally, you will provide robust clinical services, make rounds, and direct therapies for the NICU, Infectious Disease, and Critical Care.

Home Infusion

Working as part of an integrated care system, this team utilizes each patient’s complete medical records and a highly automated process to dispense critical medications for patients needing home therapy. This will include preparing sterile and non-sterile medications and working directly with physicians to administer and manage treatment plans for patients.

Ambulatory Care — Primary Care

You’ll work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary care team in a variety of settings to treat a diverse patient population while practicing with collaborative practice agreements. This could include providing direct patient care and medication, partnering with physicians, promoting health and wellness, coordinating care, and benefiting from our national support structure.

Ambulatory Care — Specialty Care (e.g., Psychiatry, Oncology, or Infectious Diseases)

This team utilizes their unique skills to treat patients in a variety of areas that range from psychiatry and behavioral health to infectious diseases and many others. Working closely with other members of your health care team, you’ll be involved in initiating and adjusting medications, promoting the health and well-being of your patients, and overseeing their care plan.

Leadership/Management

As part of our leadership team, you’ll bring your spirit of continuous innovation and collective inspiration to our pharmacy. While working in a variety of practice settings in traditional and nontraditional roles, your work could involve optimizing the use of pharmacy resources, maximizing the safety of systems, and developing your staff and future leaders.

Nontraditional Roles

We also employ many professionals that are pharmacists and non-pharmacists in our pharmacy department that work behind the scenes and help the entire team deliver high-quality patient care. Opportunities may be available in the following areas:

Residency Programs

The Kaiser Permanente Residency Programs offer pharmacy graduates the opportunity to gain clinical and leadership skills in an innovative, award-winning, integrated care delivery system. Working with high-caliber, experienced, and qualified preceptors, you’ll experience firsthand how our seamless care improves outcomes, patient satisfaction, and affordability. Kaiser Permanente Residency Programs participate in the National Matching Process and all ASHP guidelines are followed for application submission. Please visit our programs to learn about application requirements and submission deadlines.

PGY1 Residencies

PGY2 Specialty Residencies