The Temporary Support Pharmacist provides safe, accurate, timely, and compliant pharmacy services while supporting operational continuity during staffing vacancies, transitions, volume increases, backlogs, new-business ramp-up, and other short-term workforce needs. This 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 position provides an opportunity to demonstrate clinical competency, operational effectiveness, and potential for regular employment.

Essential Job Functions and 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Physical and Work Environment

The employee must regularly lift or move up to 20 pounds and frequently stand, walk, bend, and perform repetitive hand and arm movements. Duties require verbal communication, hearing, and visual capabilities including near and distance vision, color distinction, depth perception, and focus adjustment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. Work schedules vary by assignment and location.

Temporary Assignment Conditions

This is a temporary, directly employed MedWiz position with a defined assignment of up to 60 days. 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.