Pharmacist

Kroger•Hilliard, OH

About The Position

The Pharmacist creates an outstanding customer experience and inspires associates to deliver excellent customer service. The role establishes and maintains a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return, achieves department sales and profit goals, controls quality assurance standards and expenses, and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The Pharmacist monitors department functions, duties, and activities and demonstrates the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position fulfills prescription needs with a focus on accuracy, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and administers vaccines as needed. It ensures legal and company-policy compliance, maintains pharmacy operations and records, and supports a professional, sanitary, organized environment. The Pharmacist also maintains knowledge of the trade area, customers, competition, pharmacy practices, and applicable laws.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy.
Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
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 in a second language.

Responsibilities

Fulfill customers' prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
Administer vaccines as needed.
Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
Ensure the pharmacy complies with all local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
Develop thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and its competition.
Create a positive pharmacy department 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, reports to management, and product recalls in accordance with company policy.
Maintain proper records, inventory, and security for scheduled drugs, including controlled substances and narcotics.
Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources.
Ensure accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report, are used appropriately.
Establish and maintain record-keeping practices necessary for legal compliance, company policies, accounting policies, and requested reports.
Maintain a clean, neat work area, including work counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter, to present a professional, sanitary, and organized image.
Ensure product returns are handled promptly and in accordance with company policy.
Maintain equipment, such as computers, printers, accuracy scanners, and cash registers, in working condition.
Maintain and organize policy manuals, reference books, state laws, and required equipment, and verify staff members know how to use them.
Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and services signs, pharmacists' 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 of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.