Pharmacist - Retail
About The Position
As our Pharmacist focused on Retail, you will be a cornerstone of patient well-being, delivering exceptional pharmaceutical care with precision and compassion. Every day you will seamlessly collaborate with our pharmacy manager to provide vital support to patients, physicians, nurses, and all healthcare staff, ensuring optimal medication management. You'll be at the forefront, impacting lives daily with your expertise and dedication. To be successful in this role, you will masterfully balance operational excellence with unparalleled customer service, consistently achieving both financial targets and exceeding patient expectations to reinforce our commitment to community health.
Requirements
- Bachelors Science in Pharmacy
- PharmD from an accredited school of pharmacy
- Pharmacist: CA
- Basic Life Support - CPR
Nice To Haves
- One year of work experience in a retail pharmacy setting
- Doctor Of Pharmacy PharmD from an accredited school of pharmacy, upon hire
Responsibilities
- Facilitates accurate, safe, efficient, and timely dispensing of prescription and OTC medications in accordance with Company and department policies and procedures, and all state and federal regulations
- Counsels, and educates patient, physicians, residents, nurses and other healthcare providers on drug/OTC information in accordance with state law
- Oversees and directs the workflow of pharmacy ancillary staff
- Accurately complete prescription orders received from patients and providers to include data entry, data verification, drug utilization review (i.e dosing and indication verification, therapeutic duplications and interactions, allergy review, and other safety verifications), filling, labeling, final product verification, and staging for delivery
- Consults with insurance companies to obtain authorization for prescription coverage.
- Follow-up with medical providers to clarify prescribed medications and prescriptions
- Handles customer service issues as appropriate
- Answers the telephone in a courteous and timely manner
- Able to assist and perform basic cash register operations in accordance with cash handling policies
- Works collaboratively with all pharmacy staff to meet operational, financial, and customer service goals to include inventory management and reduced prescription wait times through adherence to applicable departmental policies
- Participates in department quality programs as evidenced by documentation of meeting attendance, meeting participation and reports produced.
- Keeps pharmacy surface areas, shelving, equipment and flooring clean, neat and well organized as evidenced by inspection
- Responsible for opening and closing of pharmacy and shift change duties
- Maintain current knowledge, skills, and best practices as related to retail pharmacy and healthcare.
- Maintains current knowledge of information technology associated with pharmacy systems
- Demonstrates proper use of communication tools/materials for effective communication and understands how the culture(s) of patient populations can affect communication, collaboration and the provision of care, treatment and services
- routine immunizations, travel immunizations, compounding, bedside delivery with medication consultation or meds to beds program, participation in applicable collaborative practice agreements or therapy protocols, MTM participation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
