Pharmacist Intern

Kroger•North Las Vegas, NV

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 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, and providing immunizations under a pharmacist’s supervision. The role also includes maintaining pharmacy inventory and cleanliness, supporting customers and associates, and reporting safety concerns and prescription incidents.

Requirements

Actively enrolled in a U.S. school of pharmacy.
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.
Create a welcoming environment by answering customer 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 and assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Accurately enter patient and prescription information into the pharmacy computer system.
Dispense the correct medication and accurately bag and deliver filled prescriptions to customers.
Contact prescribers’ offices for authorization and accept and interpret oral and written prescriptions for fills and refills.
Process third-party insurance information, contact insurance companies when necessary, and facilitate customer charge purchases.
Provide immunizations under the supervision of a pharmacist.
Compare and check incoming orders, stock them properly, and return unused medication stock bottles to inventory.
Clean the department.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents and notify the pharmacist on duty of prescription incidents.
Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
Follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment and manage conflict reasonably, cooperatively, and without confrontation.
Act honestly and with integrity when handling customer and business information.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.