PHARMACIST- STAFF (Blytheville,AR)

The Kroger Co. • Blytheville, AR

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist provides an outstanding customer experience by following the Customer 1st strategy and encouraging associates to deliver excellent service. The role is responsible for maintaining a safe, clean environment, achieving department sales and profit goals, meeting quality assurance standards, controlling expenses, and scheduling and staffing technicians to meet business needs. The pharmacist monitors department functions and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

The position fulfills customers’ prescription needs accurately, provides counseling and pharmaceutical care, and ensures compliance with applicable laws and company policies. It also involves oversight of pharmacy operations, records, inventory, controlled substances, equipment, product returns, and the professional appearance and organization of the pharmacy. The pharmacist is expected to continue developing personal pharmacy knowledge and skills and to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy.
• Current pharmacist licensure in good standing in the state of employment.
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• One year of retail experience.
• Ability to speak, read, and/or write a second language.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill customers’ prescription needs with careful attention to prescription accuracy.
• Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
• Ensure pharmacy compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
• Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct, attitude, pharmacy condition, and adherence to pharmacy and company dress standards.
• Develop a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and its competition.
• Promote a positive pharmacy image through strong service, friendliness, and cooperation with customers, associates, and outside vendors.
• Monitor stock replenishment, inventory levels, policies and procedures, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment operation, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, management reports, and product recalls in accordance with company policy.
• Maintain appropriate records, inventory, and security for scheduled drugs, including controlled substances and narcotics.
• Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources.
• Use accuracy tools appropriately, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report.
• Maintain records required for legal compliance, company and accounting policies, and requested reports.
• Keep work areas clean, neat, sanitary, and organized, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
• Ensure product returns are processed promptly and according to company policy.
• Maintain pharmacy equipment, including computers, printers, accuracy scanners, and cash registers, in working condition.
• Organize and maintain policy manuals, reference books, state laws, and required equipment, and verify that staff know how to use them.
• Maintain required pharmacy signage, including store hours, counseling and services signs, pharmacist photographs and names, and other requested signs.
• Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
• Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, through company or collective bargaining agreement plans.
• 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 the course of a career through the Continuing Education program.
• Training programs and career pathways offering potential for growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time