Staff Pharmacist, Tennessee

Blink Health

About The Position

Blink Health is a healthcare technology company focused on making prescriptions accessible and affordable. BlinkRx provides a digital concierge service for patients prescribed branded medications, with transparent pricing, home delivery, and patient support. The Staff Pharmacist serves as the clinical backbone of BlinkRx’s closed-door fulfillment facility. The pharmacist verifies prescriptions, provides phone-based patient counseling, collaborates with prescribers, supervises pharmacy technicians, and supports safe, accurate medication fulfillment in a structured, high-throughput environment. The role is full-time and salaried, 40 hours per week, with Monday–Friday coverage across rotating shifts between 7:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. ET, plus rotating Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET.

Requirements

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy.
Active Missouri Pharmacy License in good standing with the Missouri Board of Pharmacy.
Strong written and verbal command of English.
Demonstrated ability to perform high-volume prescription verification with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn pharmacy management systems, verification platforms, and internal workflow tools.
Active pharmacy licensure in the home state; candidates must obtain licensure in three additional listed states within the first nine months of hire.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual Spanish skills for phone-based patient counseling.
Three or more years of experience in a mail-order, specialty, retail, or closed-door fulfillment pharmacy.
Prior licensure in one or more of the listed states: AK, AL, AR, CA, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MS, NE, NV, OK, OR, TN, TX, VA, or WV.
Familiarity with pharmacovigilance or adverse drug event reporting protocols.

Responsibilities

Review and clinically verify new and refill prescriptions for therapeutic appropriateness, drug interactions, contraindications, and dosing accuracy.
Validate pharmacy technician data entry against provider orders and transfer records.
Verify filled prescriptions in the closed-door fulfillment environment, including drug, dose, quantity, NDC, and labeling, before shipment.
Perform daily prospective drug utilization reviews and resolve clinical flags before fulfillment.
Manage specialty medication handling requirements, including cold-chain verification.
Provide proactive outbound counseling to patients about medication use, side effects, dosing, storage, and adherence.
Handle inbound clinical calls and direct non-clinical inquiries to the patient support team.
Document patient interactions in the pharmacy management system.
Provide bilingual counseling to Spanish-speaking patients where applicable.
Contact prescriber offices to clarify incomplete, ambiguous, or clinically inappropriate prescriptions.
Coordinate therapeutic substitutions, DAW overrides, and formulary alternatives with prescribers.
Supervise pharmacy technicians across data entry, processing, packaging, and fulfillment workflows in accordance with state regulations and in collaboration with technician management.
Conduct real-time quality checks of technician work and provide corrective feedback.
Identify and escalate technician performance trends, and participate in coaching and training as directed.
Ensure compliance with HIPAA, state pharmacy practice acts, federal DEA regulations, and company policies.
Oversee proper handling, documentation, and destruction of records and materials containing PHI.
Participate in audits, prescription error tracking, near-miss reporting, and other quality assurance activities.
Report adverse drug events and medication errors through established pharmacovigilance channels when applicable.
Maintain fulfillment-area standards, including proper storage of temperature-sensitive medications.
Collaborate with pharmacy leadership and patient services, clinical, compliance, and technology teams on operational and clinical improvements.
Coordinate with shipping and fulfillment teams to resolve packaging errors, return-to-sender issues, and delivery failures affecting medication access.
Provide clinical input on technology enhancements, workflow tools, and software configurations affecting prescription verification or patient counseling.
Participate in team huddles, quality reviews, and department meetings to support continuous improvement.