Pharmacist Intern
About The Position
The Pharmacist Intern helps create an outstanding customer experience by providing exceptional service and maintaining a safe, clean department. The role supports the department manager in meeting sales and profit goals and monitoring quality assurance standards. The intern embraces the Customer 1st strategy, encourages excellent customer service, and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position includes pharmaceutical customer support and prescription-processing duties, such as counseling customers, assisting with over-the-counter medication recommendations, entering patient and prescription information, dispensing and delivering prescriptions, and handling insurance transactions. The intern also supports pharmacy operations by maintaining stock, cleaning the department, and reporting safety concerns and prescription incidents. Immunizations are provided under pharmacist supervision.
Requirements
- Be actively enrolled in a school of pharmacy in the United States.
- Hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.
Responsibilities
- Promote trust and respect among associates.
- Help customers feel welcome and appreciated by answering questions about products sold in the department and 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 accurately deliver them to customers.
- Process customers’ third-party insurance information.
- Contact insurance companies on customers’ 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.
- 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 known prescription incident.
- Report safety risks or issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
- Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, subject to plan availability 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.
- Free counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.
- 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, including vacation, sick leave, and parental leave, subject to applicable terms.
- 401(k) plan and/or Taft-Hartley pension fund participation, subject to eligibility.
- Group term life insurance, subject to applicable criteria and eligibility.
- Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, depending on location and eligibility.
- Internal training and development resources.
- Retirement benefits.
- Mental health resources.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
