Pharmacy/Pharmacist Floater (Ad)

Kroger•Cypress, TX

12d

About The Position

Provide professional pharmacy services, including filling prescriptions, counseling patients, and supervising pharmacy technicians. Ensure that services comply with professional standards and applicable statutes and regulations, while demonstrating the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The pharmacist floater works at multiple locations as needed and performs daily operational duties under the direction of the pharmacy manager. The role includes direct patient clinical services, such as patient coaching and medication therapy management, as well as immunization administration under defined protocols. The pharmacist must follow pharmacy operating procedures and safety, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Physical demands include regular close-vision use, depth perception, adjusting eye focus, handling objects or controls, talking and hearing; frequent standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, or crouching; and lifting or moving objects weighing up to 25 pounds. The essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Minimum Board of Pharmacy license.
Effective interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Friendly, approachable, and outgoing demeanor; ability to work as a team player.
Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
Ability to preserve the confidentiality of information.
Strong math skills, including calculating discounts, proportions, and percentages.
Basic algebra and geometry skills, including calculating circumferences and volume.
Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

APhA Immunization Certified.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate teamwork to support customer satisfaction and a pleasant working and shopping environment.
Provide friendly, efficient customer service, showing sincerity, patience, and respect and thanking customers for their business.
Follow local, state, and federal health and civil codes, as well as licensing and dispensing guidelines.
Interpret physicians’ prescriptions and enter prescription and patient data into the computer system.
Provide prescription information to pharmacy technicians and supervise prescription filling.
Counsel patients in person and by phone about medication side effects, administration, and possible drug/food or drug/drug interactions; ensure patients understand their medication treatment programs.
Consult with prescribers about the appropriateness of drug therapy.
Follow approved efficiency and accuracy procedures when filling prescriptions.
Administer immunizations under defined protocols.
Provide direct patient clinical services, including patient coaching and medication therapy management.
Monitor and maintain patient profiles.
Monitor inventory levels to ensure adequate service levels.
Perform daily operational duties under the direction of the pharmacy manager.
Follow department policies, procedures, and best practices for pharmacy operations.
Ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy regulations.
Follow merchandising, labor control, expense and supply control, loss prevention, and maintenance rules; report illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
Comply with and reinforce food safety, sanitation, and safety requirements; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
Maintain the ability to work at multiple locations as needed.