PHARMACY/PHARMACIST
About The Position
The Pharmacist fulfills customers’ prescription needs with a focus on accuracy, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and administers vaccines as needed. The role helps create an outstanding customer experience and a safe, clean pharmacy environment while supporting sales and profit goals, quality assurance standards, expense control, and appropriate scheduling and staffing of technicians. The Pharmacist monitors department functions and activities and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position is responsible for pharmacy operations and regulatory compliance, including adherence to local, state, and federal laws such as HIPAA. It includes oversight of inventory, controlled substances, recordkeeping, security, sanitation, equipment, pricing, returns, scheduling, and other department processes. The Pharmacist maintains professional standards and a clean, organized work area; ensures staff know how to use required manuals, references, and equipment; and continually develops personal pharmacy knowledge and skills.
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.
- A second language, including speaking, reading, and/or writing.
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 pharmacies comply 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 a 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, recordkeeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment operation, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, management reports, and product recalls according to 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 recordkeeping practices necessary for legal compliance, company and accounting policies, and requested reports.
- Maintain a clean, neat, sanitary, and organized work area, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
- Ensure product returns are handled promptly and according to company policy.
- Maintain equipment, including computers, printers, accuracy scanners, and cash registers, in working condition.
- Maintain and organize policy manuals, reference books, state laws, and required equipment, and verify that staff know how to use them.
- Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and service 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 with or without reasonable accommodation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
