Temporary Support Pharmacist
About The Position
The Temporary Support Pharmacist provides safe, accurate, timely, and compliant pharmacy services to support operational continuity during staffing vacancies, transitions, volume increases, backlogs, new-business ramp-up, and other short-term workforce needs. The position performs professional pharmacy responsibilities, including prescription verification, medication safety, technician oversight, and support of assigned production and clinical workflows. Pharmacists are hired directly by MedWiz for assignments of up to 60 days through standard hiring and screening practices. The role offers an opportunity to demonstrate clinical competency, operational effectiveness, and potential for regular employment. MedWiz may evaluate clinical competency, performance, attendance, reliability, learning progress, and overall fit when considering the employee for an approved regular position. Conversion is not guaranteed, and the assignment may conclude at the end of the established period.
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 medication-safety orientation, attention to detail, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to adapt to assigned workflows, prioritize competing demands, and maintain professional standards.
- Ability to maintain licensure, work assigned schedules, and perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation, including applicable physical and environmental requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in long-term care, institutional, closed-door, specialty, infusion, or high-volume pharmacy practice.
- Proficiency with pharmacy management systems, automation, and electronic medication-order workflows.
- Experience collaborating with pharmacy technicians and interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
Responsibilities
- Review, interpret, and clinically verify medication orders for accuracy, appropriateness, and compliance.
- Perform final verification of prepared medications and ensure product quality before dispensing.
- Identify and resolve medication safety concerns, including interactions, dosing issues, allergies, and contraindications.
- Communicate with prescribers, facilities, caregivers, and internal teams to resolve medication-related concerns.
- Provide pharmacist oversight and direction to pharmacy technicians and student pharmacists.
- Support controlled-medication, emergency-kit, MedBank, DOSIS, compounding, and other pharmacy workflows as qualified and assigned.
- Maintain accurate documentation and comply with applicable privacy, quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Support production priorities, service recovery, quality assurance, and operational continuity.
- Complete required onboarding, safety training, systems instruction, and job-specific training.
- Demonstrate consistent attendance, reliability, professional judgment, and performance throughout the assignment.
- Perform other activities assigned by leadership.
