PHARMACY/PHARMACIST
About The Position
The Pharmacist creates an outstanding customer experience and inspires 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 and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position fulfills prescription needs with a focus on accuracy, administers vaccines as needed, and provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care. It ensures compliance with applicable laws and company policies, maintains accurate records and secure inventory—including controlled substances—and oversees pharmacy operations, equipment, staffing, product returns, and the professional and sanitary condition of the pharmacy. The role also maintains required signage, manuals, reference materials, and staff knowledge of their use, while continually developing 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.
- Ability to speak, read, and/or write a second language.
Responsibilities
- Fulfill customers’ prescription needs, concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
- Administer vaccines as needed.
- Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
- Ensure the pharmacy complies 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 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, 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.
- Ensure accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report, are used appropriately.
- Maintain records necessary for legal compliance, company policies, accounting policies, and requested reports.
- Keep the work area 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 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.
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, subject to eligibility and length of service.
- Free counseling through the Employee Assistance Program.
- Free, confidential financial tools and coaching through Goldman Sachs Ayco.
- Associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, and technology.
- Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over a career through the Continuing Education program.
- Training programs and career pathways supporting growth.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
