PHARMACY/PHARMCST-RELIEF

The Kroger Co.•Springville, UT

About The Position

The Pharmacist embraces the Customer 1st strategy by providing exceptional service and creating an outstanding customer experience. The role helps establish and maintain a safe, clean environment, assists the department manager in achieving 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 performs prescription-processing and patient-care duties, including evaluating prescription orders for appropriateness and safety, dispensing medications accurately, counseling customers and prescribers, supporting immunizations and other trained clinical activities, and maintaining required records. It also supports pharmacy operations through inventory oversight, report review, administrative work, and assistance with associate supervision and customer or personnel concerns when the department manager is absent. The role requires standing for the entire shift and lifting up to 25 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Hold a current Pharmacist license in the state of employment, without stipulations or Board-ordered restrictions.
Graduate from a U.S. School of Pharmacy or pass a foreign equivalency examination.
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.
Create a welcoming environment for customers by answering questions about products sold 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 knowledge of third-party billing procedures to facilitate customer charges.
Maintain accurate records, including insurance information; receive prescription information from customers; accurately deliver prescriptions; and assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Call prescribers and prescribers’ office staff as needed.
Use the prescription computer system accurately and efficiently.
Maintain accurate inventory and reconcile 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 and properly stock incoming orders.
Compare and check incoming orders.
Assist with supervision and delegation of responsibilities to associates.
File prescription orders and records in accordance with state and federal regulations and procedures.
Help resolve customer and personnel conflicts and problems when the department manager is absent.
Run, review, and interpret reports.
Oversee pharmacy administrative needs when the department manager is absent.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or mis-fills to store management and Sedgwick within the timeframes specified by 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.