Pharmacist, Long-Term Care Pharmacy Operations

MedWiz of Illinois LLC • Woodridge, IL

14h

About The Position

MedWiz is a pharmacy partner for long-term-care communities, focused on patient care, simplifying medication management, and improving communication among stakeholders in the medication ordering and administration lifecycle. Its technology, pharmaceutical products, and services support customer needs while adhering to federal and state regulations.

Pharmacists at MedWiz provide safe, accurate, timely, and compliant pharmacy services. They review and verify medication orders, exercise professional judgment, resolve medication-related issues, guide pharmacy technicians, and support production and clinical workflows.

Requirements

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited pharmacy program.
• Active and unrestricted pharmacist license in the state of practice.
• Ability to exercise independent professional and clinical judgment in a high-volume pharmacy environment.
• Strong attention to detail, medication-safety orientation, communication skills, and ability to prioritize competing demands.
• Ability to work the schedule associated with the position and maintain all professional requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in long-term care, institutional, closed-door, specialty, infusion, IV, or high-volume pharmacy practice.
• Experience with pharmacy management systems, automation, and electronic medication-order workflows.
• Experience collaborating with pharmacy technicians and interdisciplinary healthcare partners.

Responsibilities

• Review, interpret, and clinically verify prescriptions and medication orders for accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, and compliance.
• Perform final verification of prepared medications and ensure product quality before dispensing.
• Identify and resolve interactions, duplications, dosing concerns, contraindications, allergies, and other medication-safety issues.
• Communicate with prescribers, facilities, caregivers, and internal partners to resolve prescription or medication concerns.
• Provide pharmacist oversight and direction to pharmacy technicians and student pharmacists within applicable law.
• Support controlled-medication, emergency-kit, MedBank, DOSIS, compounding, and other pharmacy workflows as qualified and assigned.
• Maintain complete documentation and comply with privacy, security, quality, controlled-substance, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in quality assurance, service recovery, and continuous improvement activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time