Healthcare Services Pharmacist

Walgreens•Tucson, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies, and procedures. The role focuses on enhancing the patient experience by engaging patients, resolving issues, and promoting healthcare services offered through Walgreens, shifting the pharmacy role from transactional to interpersonal. Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves more than 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,000 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 211,000 team members, including roughly 85,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Requirements

BS in Pharmacy or Pharmacist Degree from an accredited educational institution.
Current pharmacist licensure in the states within the district.
Certified Immunizer or willing to become an immunizer within 90 days of hire.

Responsibilities

Engages patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services.
Resolves patient issues in a timely manner and answers questions to ensure a positive patient experience.
Models and shares patient service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and joyful experience, including interpersonal habits that show care (e.g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc.) and Walgreens service traits (e.g., demonstrating curiosity to identify needs and proactively helping, servicing until satisfied, championing empathy and inclusivity, etc.).
Connects with patients by anticipating needs and proactively offering services.
Supports efforts on enhancing patient experience by increasing awareness of healthcare services offered through Walgreens (e.g., patient consultation, medication management, drug therapy reviews, and perform clinical, or wellness services such as immunizations, diagnostic testing, and patient outcomes services) thereby promoting the shift of the Walgreens pharmacy role from transactional to interpersonal.
Provides clinical services to patients, such as immunizations or MTM interventions, ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, company policies and procedures.
Ensures the use of all elements of the Good Faith Dispensing policy in conjunction with state and federal controlled substance laws when filling prescriptions.
Ensures that elements of Good Faith are present in the Product Review/Retail Fill Process.
Maintains current knowledge and required licensing/credentialing/certification as established by federal and state regulations to provide such clinical services.
Maintains current knowledge and skills related to pharmacy and healthcare by reading pharmacy related journals, company publications, and communications.
Maintains awareness of developments in retail and management and pursues best practices that would enhance performance.
Obtains necessary certifications, education credits and training, including learning modules, as required by the Company.