PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-INTERN

The Kroger Co.•Highlands Ranch, CO

11d•$28 - $32

About The Position

The Pharmacist Intern helps create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and maintains a safe, clean department that encourages customers to return. The role assists the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals and monitors established quality assurance standards. The intern supports the Customer 1st strategy, encourages excellent customer service, and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position involves providing pharmaceutical information and counseling, processing and dispensing prescriptions accurately, assisting customers with insurance and transactions, supporting immunizations under pharmacist supervision, and maintaining pharmacy stock and cleanliness. It also requires cooperative conduct, sound judgment, and prompt reporting of safety concerns, accidents, prescription incidents, and illegal activity.

Requirements

Actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy.
Hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Create a welcoming environment by answering customers’ questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Gain and maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and discuss them competently with customers and prescribers.
Provide drug counseling to customers and assist with recommendations for over-the-counter medications.
Accurately enter patient and prescription information into the pharmacy computer system.
Dispense the correct medication.
Contact prescribers’ offices for authorization.
Bag filled prescriptions and accurately deliver them to customers.
Process third-party insurance information and contact insurance companies on customers’ behalf when necessary.
Facilitate charge purchases for customers.
Accurately accept and interpret oral and written prescriptions for filling or refilling.
Clean the department.
Provide immunizations under the supervision of a pharmacist.
Compare and check incoming orders, stock them properly, and return unused medication stock bottles to stock.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Notify the pharmacist on duty of any prescription incident they become aware of.
Report safety risks or issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict reasonably, cooperatively, and without confrontation.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, subject to plans and eligibility.
Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles.
Paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
Employee Assistance Program counseling and confidential financial tools and coaching.
Associate discounts on purchases.
Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over a career through the Continuing Education program.
Training programs and career pathways.
Paid vacation, sick leave, and parental leave, subject to eligibility.
401(k) plan and/or Taft-Hartley pension fund participation, subject to eligibility.
Group term life insurance, subject to eligibility criteria.
Potential bonus eligibility, depending on criteria.
Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, depending on location and eligibility.
Internal training and development resources.