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Meriden, Connecticut

Pharmacist - Per Diem

PharmacistIncludes weekendsPer Diem

Listed compensation

$55-$65/hr

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Job Description

At Curaleaf, we’re redefining the cannabis industry with a strong commitment to quality, expertise, and innovation. As a leading global cannabis provider, our brands—including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots—offer premium products and services in both medical and adult-use markets.

Join us at Curaleaf to be part of a high-growth, purpose-driven company that champions corporate social responsibility through our Rooted in Good initiative, supporting community outreach and positive change. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, drive innovation, and help shape the future of cannabis.

  • Pharmacist Per Diem
  • Type of Work: Per Diem
  • Location: 443 South Broad Street, Meriden, CT 06450

Why You’ll Love Working Here

No dealing with insurance companies or vaccines! Spend more time providing personalized guidance to medical patients.

  • We offer weekdays, evenings, weekends, and holidays with a focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
  • Join a team that values collaboration, respect, and exceptional care for our customers.

Who You Are

As a Pharmacist at Curaleaf, you’ll play a key role in our retail dispensary, ensuring smooth operations and compliant distribution of cannabis products. You are a customer-focused and detail-oriented professional passionate about patient care. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, guiding patients and dispensary staff with your expertise in product knowledge, dosing, and consumption methods.

You excel at educating, consulting, and ensuring compliance with inventory, security, and regulatory protocols, helping create an outstanding patient experience while supporting business goals.

What You’ll Do

Patient Consults: Provide patients with accurate product recommendations, dosing, consumption methods, and product details.

Patient Care: Assist patients with questions, concerns, and complaints, adjusting recommendations and/or dosing based on patient feedback.

Team Training: Train team members on product knowledge, ensuring they provide proper recommendations to patients.

Patient and Physician Outreach: Build and maintain relationships with physicians, patients, politicians, and professionals in the community.

Cannabis Knowledge: Deepen your understanding of cannabis products, dosing, drug interactions, side effects, and the efficacy of different strains and delivery methods.

Store Operations: Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and all federal and state laws. Oversee inventory audits and dispensing operations.

Inventory Monitoring: Assist with inventory forecasting, product intake, and maintaining systems for regulatory reporting and sales analysis.

What You’ll Bring

  • An active Pharmacy License in the state you’re applying for.
  • Strong knowledge of the retail and pharmacy landscape.
  • A passion for patient care and the medical cannabis industry.
  • Effective communication skills at all levels inside and outside the organization.
  • Outstanding customer service skills, with the ability to address concerns professionally.
  • Flexibility with scheduling, able to work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, use hands and finger to feel, reach with hands and arms, and lift up to 25 pounds. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, and lift up to 25 pounds. This position requires close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less).

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional retail environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, POS systems, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. This position has allergen warnings including potential exposure to dust, pollen, and plant pathogens and requires the ability to work in confined spaces, have a high stress tolerance, adaptability, and be flexible to work in an ever-changing environment.

  • Curaleaf Pay Transparency
  • $55—$65 USD

What We Offer

  • Career Growth Opportunities
  • Competitive Pay and Benefits
  • Generous PTO and Parental Leave
  • 401(K) Retirement Plan
  • Life/ Disability Insurance
  • Community Involvement

Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts

Benefits vary by state, role type, and eligibility.

Follow Us on Social Media

  • Instagram: @curaleaf. usa
  • Twitter: @Curaleaf_Inc
  • LinkedIn: Curaleaf LinkedIn

Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant.

As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company, and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, Grassroots, Find, and Anthem provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets.

Curaleaf International is powered by a strong presence in all stages of the supply chain. Its unique distribution network throughout Europe, Canada and Australasia brings together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Home | Curaleaf | Cannabis with Confidence

Our Vision: To be the world's leading cannabis company by consistently delivering superior products and services and driving the global acceptance of cannabis.

Our Values

Lead and Inspire.

Commit to Win.

ONE Curaleaf.

Driven to Deliver Excellence.

Curaleaf is an equal opportunity employer. Curaleaf recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Individuals adversely impacted by the war on drugs are encouraged to apply.

Current Curaleaf employees should apply for open positions through our Internal Job Board, which can be accessed via the link on The Leaf.

  • ## Please note that U.S. immigration rules and regulations are governed by federal law; not state law. Although Curaleaf operates in states that have legalized and decriminalized marijuana, it is still considered a controlled substance under federal regulations and thus illegal under federal law. For this reason, unless and until federal law changes, Curaleaf is prohibited from offering sponsorship for any non-immigrant or immigrant visas.

*Please also note that while candidates who are Lawful Permanent Residents (such as those with Green Cards) are eligible for employment with, and are hired by Curaleaf, working for a company engaged in a business that grows and sells a product that is illegal under federal law might compromise the candidate’s immigration status. Before a Lawful Permanent Resident accepts an offer of employment, Curaleaf recommends that the candidate seek the advice of an immigration lawyer.

Key Responsibilities

The pharmacist will provide personalized patient consultations regarding cannabis products, dosing, and consumption methods while ensuring compliance with all regulatory protocols. They are also responsible for overseeing inventory audits, training staff, and maintaining professional relationships with the community.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an active Pharmacy License in the state of Connecticut and possess strong knowledge of the retail pharmacy landscape. The role requires excellent communication skills, a passion for patient care, and the flexibility to work nights, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Regulatory ComplianceInventory ManagementDosing ConsultationRetail OperationsProblem SolvingAttention To Detail

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 48% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Connecticut is 103.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$125k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $120k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Connecticut clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Below most Pharmacy listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,286 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Meriden

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$354k
Typical market rent
$1,903/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
State income tax
Up to 7%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

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

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About Curaleaf

Alternative Medicine
New York, New York
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Career Growth Opportunities
Competitive Pay and Benefits
Generous PTO and Parental Leave
401(K) Retirement Plan
Life/Disability Insurance
Community Involvement
Referral Bonuses
Product Discounts