Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Casual

Kroger•Loveland, CO

About The Position

The Pharmacist helps create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and maintains a safe, clean environment. The role assists the department manager in achieving department sales and profit goals and monitors quality assurance standards. The Pharmacist models the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position provides pharmacy services, including processing prescriptions, counseling patients and prescribers, supporting immunization and other trained clinical activities, maintaining controlled-substance records and inventory, and assisting with department operations. In the department manager’s absence, the Pharmacist helps resolve customer and personnel issues and oversees administrative needs.

Requirements

Hold a current Pharmacist license in the state where employment is sought, without stipulations or Board-ordered restrictions.
Graduate from a U.S. School of Pharmacy or pass a foreign equivalency exam.
Successfully pass the NAPLEX exam.
Be able to work at various locations.
Be able to travel independently.

Nice To Haves

Staff pharmacist experience.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Help customers feel welcome and appreciated by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with customers and store personnel.
Use knowledge of pharmaceutical products and supplies to make recommendations to patients and prescribers.
Receive verbal prescription orders and accurately document them in compliance 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.
Follow third-party billing procedures and facilitate customer charges.
Maintain accurate records, including insurance records; receive prescription information from customers and accurately deliver prescriptions to them.
Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Contact prescribers and prescribers’ office staff by phone.
Use the prescription computer system accurately and efficiently.
Maintain inventory and reconcile and research controlled substances in compliance with record-keeping 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.
File prescription orders and records according to state and federal regulations and procedures.
Help resolve customer and personnel conflicts and problems in the absence of the department manager.
Run, review, and interpret reports.
Oversee department administrative needs in the absence of the department manager.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or dispensing errors to store management and Sedgwick within the timeframes 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.