PHARMACIST FLOATER

The Kroger Co.•Carson City, NV

About The Position

Provide professional pharmacy services, including filling prescriptions, counseling patients, and supervising pharmacy technicians. Ensure that all services comply with professional standards and applicable statutes and regulations. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The role requires the ability to work at multiple locations as needed and to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

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 meet the stated physical demands, including regularly using close vision, depth perception, and eye-focus adjustment; handling, holding, or feeling objects, tools, or controls; and talking and hearing; and frequently standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, or crouching and lifting or moving objects up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

APhA Immunization Certified.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate teamwork to support customer satisfaction and a pleasant working and shopping environment.
Provide friendly and efficient customer service, demonstrating sincerity, patience, and respect in customer interactions and thanking customers for their business.
Adhere to local, state, and federal health and civil codes, as well as state and federal guidelines regarding annual licensing and restrictions on dispensing drugs.
Interpret physicians’ prescriptions and enter prescription and patient data into the computer system.
Provide pharmacy technicians with prescription information and supervise prescription filling.
Counsel patients in person and by phone about medication side effects, proper administration, and potential drug/food or drug/drug interactions; ensure patients understand their medication treatment program.
Consult with prescribers about matters affecting 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 current 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 regulations, guidelines, procedures, and programs; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
Maintain the ability to work at multiple locations as needed.
Perform the position’s essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.