FULL TIME PHARMACIST FLOAT

The Kroger Co.•Duncanville, TX

About The Position

The Pharmacist Float creates an outstanding customer experience by embracing the Customer 1st strategy and inspiring associates to deliver excellent customer service. The role establishes and maintains a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return; achieves department sales and profit goals; controls quality assurance standards and expenses; and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The pharmacist monitors department functions, duties, and activities and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position fulfills customers’ prescription needs with an emphasis on accuracy, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and ensures pharmacy compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA. It maintains professional standards for appearance, conduct, pharmacy condition, and dress, while fostering positive relationships with customers, associates, and vendors. The pharmacist also oversees inventory, records, security, sanitation, equipment, pricing, returns, budgets, reporting, and product recalls in accordance with company policy and legal requirements. The pharmacist must be able to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

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.
Ability to perform the 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

Create an outstanding customer experience by embracing the Customer 1st strategy and inspiring associates to deliver excellent customer service.
Establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return.
Achieve department sales and profit goals, control quality assurance standards and expenses, and properly schedule and staff technicians to meet business needs.
Monitor all department functions, duties, and activities.
Fulfill customers’ prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
Ensure pharmacies comply with 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 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, record keeping, 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.
Use accuracy tools appropriately, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report.
Maintain records required 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.
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 staff know how to use them.
Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and service signs, pharmacists’ photographs and names, and other requested signs.
Continuously broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.