Intern Pharmacist

Meijer•Goshen, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a family company, Meijer serves people and communities by providing career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth, and development. The Intern Pharmacist will be responsible for having basic pharmacy knowledge to provide customer service, to process and fill prescriptions, to provide third party functions, to manage inventory, and to provide clinical services. This role is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; the intern may perform other duties as assigned or required.

Requirements

Enrolled in an accredited pharmacy school.
Pharmacy Intern License (state specific).
Positive attitude.
Excellent communication skills.
Neat and legible penmanship.
Organizational skills.
Prioritization skills.
Team-oriented mindset.
Timeliness & dependability.
Basic math skills.
Drive to stay current and competent in all pharmacy-related functions.
Excellent customer service skills.
Empathy.
Professional appearance.
Understanding of the importance of patient confidentiality.
Understanding of all patient care services available at Meijer Pharmacy.
Knowledge of Third Party Help; prescription split billing.
Knowledge of health screening tests available; knowledge of immunizations available; ability to perform health screening tests and immunizations after proper training and state-specific authorization; knowledge of MTM platforms and working under a pharmacist to perform these services when applicable & allowed.
Knowledge of brand/generic medication names; knowledge of applicable medical/pharmacy terminology; knowledge about various dosage forms; ability to perform pharmaceutical calculations.
Knowledge of MP6.

Responsibilities

Customer service: Communicating with patients in person and via telephone; assisting patients with product selection; obtaining medication prices (internally and from competitors) pursuant to patient requests.
Processing and filling prescriptions: Using pharmacy computer system for prescription data entry & third party adjudication; pulling correct products from the shelf; counting and labeling prescriptions appropriately at fill station; receiving new prescriptions from patients, selling prescriptions to patients at the Will Call station.
Third-party functions.
Inventory management: Updating balance on hand (BOH); product ordering; looking up Meijer codes; checking-in and putting away orders; processing vendor charge backs (VCBs)/transfers/salvage.
Clinical services.