Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Casual

Kroger•Denver, CO

About The Position

The Pharmacist embraces the Customer 1st strategy by providing exceptional service and helping create a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return. The role assists the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals, monitors quality assurance standards, and models the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The Pharmacist fills and verifies prescriptions, evaluates prescription appropriateness for patient safety and legal compliance, counsels patients and prescribers, supports immunizations and other appropriately trained clinical activities, and helps maintain accurate records and controlled-substance inventory. The role may help resolve customer and personnel issues, oversee administrative and operational needs when the department manager is absent, and support the department’s associates.

Requirements

Hold a current Pharmacist license in the state where employment is sought, with no 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.
Be able to stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 lbs.
Be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Staff pharmacist experience.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Create a welcoming customer environment 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 and make appropriate 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.
Follow third-party billing procedures and facilitate customer charges.
Maintain accurate records, including insurance records; accurately receive prescription information and deliver prescriptions to customers.
Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Contact prescribers and prescribers’ office staff by phone.
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 provide them safely and effectively.
Participate in clinical activities for which appropriate training has been received.
Delegate supply monitoring and ordering, stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
Supervise and delegate 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 departmental administrative needs when the department manager is absent.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or misfills 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.