Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Casual

Kroger • Louisville, KY

8d

About The Position

The Pharmacist provides exceptional customer service while maintaining a safe, clean department and supporting pharmacy sales, profit, and quality-assurance goals. The role models the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. It requires accurate and legally compliant prescription processing, patient counseling, support for immunizations and other trained clinical activities, and oversight of pharmacy operations when the department manager is absent. The position may require work at various locations and independent travel.

Requirements

• Current pharmacist license in the state of employment, without stipulations or Board-ordered restrictions.
• Graduate of a U.S. School of Pharmacy or have passed a foreign equivalency exam.
• Successfully passed the NAPLEX exam.
• Ability to work at various locations.
• Ability to travel independently.
• Ability to stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

• Staff pharmacist experience or background.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create a welcoming environment and answer customer questions about products in the department and throughout the store.
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers and store personnel.
• Maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and supplies to make recommendations to patients and prescribers.
• Receive verbal prescription orders and accurately document them in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
• Interpret, fill or refill, label, and bag prescription orders accurately and completely.
• Evaluate prescription orders for appropriateness, patient safety, and legal compliance.
• Provide drug counseling to customers and prescribers.
• Use third-party billing procedures and facilitate customer charges.
• Maintain accurate records, including insurance information; receive prescription information from customers and accurately deliver prescriptions to them.
• Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
• Contact prescribers and their office staff by phone as needed.
• Use the prescription computer system accurately and efficiently.
• Maintain and reconcile inventory, and research controlled substances in compliance with recordkeeping requirements.
• Promote appropriate immunizations and administer them safely and effectively.
• Participate in clinical activities for which appropriate training has been received.
• Delegate monitoring and ordering of supplies, stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
• Assist with supervision and delegation of responsibilities to associates.
• File prescription orders and records according to state and federal regulations and procedures.
• Help resolve customer and personnel conflicts and problems in the department manager’s absence.
• Run, review, and interpret reports.
• Oversee departmental administrative needs in the department manager’s absence.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report pharmacy incidents and dispensing errors to store management and Sedgwick within the timeframes specified in the Corporate Accuracy Policy.
• Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

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