PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-INTERN
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 intern assists the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals and monitors quality assurance standards. The role supports the Customer 1st strategy and encourages excellent service, while demonstrating the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The intern develops and maintains knowledge of pharmaceutical products, counsels customers, assists with over-the-counter recommendations, and supports prescription processing and dispensing under applicable supervision. The position also involves customer assistance, inventory handling, department cleaning, and reporting safety concerns and incidents. The employer describes a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment and requires the ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
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 for customers and answer questions about products sold in the department and store.
- Gain and 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 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 known prescription incident.
- Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
- Work cooperatively in a high-paced and sometimes stressful environment and manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively.
- Act honestly and with integrity when handling customer and business information.
- Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
- Provide direct support and assistance to 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 eligibility and plan terms.
- Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles.
- Paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
- Free counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.
- Free confidential financial tools and coaching through Goldman Sachs Ayco.
- Associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, and technology.
- Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over a career through the Continuing Education program.
- Training programs and career pathways.
- Paid time off such as vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
- 401(k) plan and/or Taft-Hartley pension fund participation, subject to eligibility.
- Group term life insurance, subject to eligibility and other criteria.
- Potential bonus eligibility, depending on criteria.
- Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, depending on eligibility and location.
- Internal training and development resources.
- Mental and emotional support resources through the Employee Assistance Program.
- Retirement benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
