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Munson Healthcare
Traverse City, Michigan

PRN Clinical Pharmacist

PharmacistPer Diem

Compensation

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Job Description

Company Description

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material.

To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.

Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.

Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.

Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

A Day in the Life

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for the provision of safe, effective, appropriate and cost-efficient medication therapy to patients.

The Clinical pharmacist will work directly with providers, other health professionals, and patients to ensure that the medications prescribed for patients contribute to the best possible health outcomes.

Clinical pharmacists verify orders for medications, monitor patient medication therapies, provide drug information, and supervise and direct support personnel.

Qualifications

  • What’s Required
  • Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a BS Pharmacy degree or higher
  • Currently licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Michigan or eligible for licensure*

Eligible for Licensure/licensure Requirements Is Defined As

  • State of Michigan licensure as a Registered Pharmacists is required within 90 days of employment
  • Those seeking licensure in the state of Michigan will have 90 days to do so.

If at 90 days licensure is not obtained, continued employment will be evaluated and termination of employment may occur.

All clinical pharmacists job duties will be performed under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist until licensure in the State of Michigan is obtained AND training has been successfully completed.

  • Health-system experience or PGY-1 residency completion preferred, but not required
  • PGY-2 Residency completion desired but not required for specialty areas (ED, OR, ONC)
  • Board Certification preferred, but not required
  • Additional Information
  • Schedule: Per diem or scheduled as needed

Are you Munson Material? Apply today!

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.

Shift: Variable Shift

Status: PRN

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for providing safe, effective, and cost-efficient medication therapy to patients. They work directly with healthcare providers to monitor patient therapies, verify medication orders, and supervise support personnel.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Medication therapy managementClinical pharmacyOrder verificationPatient carePharmacologyClinical monitoring

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 42% have no call, 88% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Pharmacy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Top contract/1099 Pharmacist Jobs

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Salary Distribution31 jobs · 26 employers

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<$145k
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$145k-165k
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$165k-185k
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$185k-205k
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$214k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
92%
Sign-on bonus
17%
CME allowance
8%
Loan repayment
4%
Relocation assistance
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$75.03-$102.91/hr
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#3

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 4.8
Better work-life than 70% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,058 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site

Living in Traverse City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$441k
Typical market rent
$1,888/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.4
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Traverse City, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Munson Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Traverse City, MI
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Holidays
Generous PTO
Employee Discounts
Free Retirement Counseling
Wellness Platform
Career Development