Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Intern

Kroger•Boulder, CO

10d

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching department sales and profit goals and monitor established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to provide excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The Pharmacist Intern supports pharmacy operations by counseling customers, handling prescriptions, assisting with medication recommendations, processing insurance information, stocking and managing medication inventory, and providing immunizations under a pharmacist’s supervision. The role also involves customer and associate safety, accurate handling of prescription information, and cooperative service in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

Actively enrolled in a pharmacy school in the United States.
Hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.
Ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Help customers feel welcome and appreciated by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and discuss them competently with customers and prescribers.
Provide drug counseling to customers.
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 deliver them accurately to customers.
Process third-party insurance information for customers and contact insurance companies on their behalf when necessary.
Facilitate charge purchases for customers.
Accurately accept and interpret oral and written prescriptions for fills and refills.
Clean the department.
Provide immunizations under the supervision of the pharmacist.
Compare and check incoming orders, stock them properly, and return unused medication stock bottles to inventory.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Notify the pharmacist on duty about any prescription incident of which they become aware.
Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
Handle customer and business information with honesty and 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.