Pharmacist Intern

Kroger•Idaho Falls, ID

23h

About The Position

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, and monitor established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver 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, processing and dispensing prescriptions, assisting with over-the-counter medication recommendations, providing immunizations under a pharmacist’s supervision, and maintaining department cleanliness and stock. The intern must perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Be 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 competently discuss them 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 accurately deliver them to customers.
Process customers’ third-party insurance information 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 a pharmacist.
Compare and check incoming orders.
Properly stock incoming orders.
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.