PHARMACY/PHARMACIST (HR)

The Kroger Co. • Aiken, SC

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About The Position

The Pharmacist is responsible for delivering an outstanding customer experience, supporting associates in providing excellent service, and maintaining a safe, clean pharmacy environment. The role works toward department sales and profit goals, manages quality assurance and expenses, and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The pharmacist monitors department activities and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

The position fulfills prescriptions accurately, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and administers vaccines as needed. It ensures compliance with applicable laws and company policies, maintains pharmacy operations and records, oversees inventory and controlled substances, and keeps equipment and the work area in proper condition. The role also supports customers and colleagues, including minors, people with special needs, and older adults, and requires the ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
• Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced environment and manage conflict constructively.
• Ability to act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when needed.
• Ability to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

• One year of retail experience.
• A second language, in speaking, reading, and/or writing.

Responsibilities

• Fill customers’ prescriptions, concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription.
• Administer vaccines as needed.
• Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
• Ensure pharmacy compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
• Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; follow pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
• Develop thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and its competition.
• Promote a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness, and cooperation with customers, associates, and outside vendors.
• Monitor stock replenishment, inventory, policies and procedures, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment operation, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, management reports, and product recalls in accordance with 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.
• Use accuracy tools appropriately, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report.
• Maintain records necessary for legal compliance, company and accounting policies, and requested reports.
• Keep work areas clean, neat, sanitary, and organized, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
• Handle product returns 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; verify staff know how to use them.
• Maintain required signage, including store-hours, counseling, and services signs, pharmacists’ photographs and names, and other requested signs.
• Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
• Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Manage conflict reasonably, cooperatively, and without confrontation.
• Act with honesty and integrity when handling customer and business information.
• Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
• Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, through company or collective bargaining agreement plans.
• Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles.
• Paid time off, including holiday and sick pay, based on eligibility and length of service.
• Free counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.
• Free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
• Associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, and technology.
• Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over the course of a career through the Continuing Education program.
• Training programs and career pathways supporting growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time