PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-CASUAL

The Kroger Co.•Eagle, CO

21d

About The Position

The Pharmacist embraces the Customer 1st strategy by providing exceptional service and creating an outstanding customer experience. The role helps maintain a safe, clean, welcoming environment; supports the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals; and monitors quality assurance standards. The pharmacist models the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position is responsible for accurately processing prescriptions, counseling patients and prescribers, supporting immunization and other trained clinical activities, maintaining pharmacy records and controlled-substance inventory, and assisting with department operations. The pharmacist may help supervise and delegate work to associates and handle customer, personnel, and administrative issues when the department manager is absent. The role requires a current unrestricted pharmacist license in the state of employment, graduation from a U.S. school of pharmacy or a foreign equivalency exam, and successful completion of the NAPLEX. The pharmacist must be able to work at various locations and travel independently.

Requirements

Current Pharmacist license in the state where employment is sought, with no stipulations or Board-ordered restrictions.
Graduate of a U.S. School of Pharmacy or successful completion of a foreign equivalency exam.
Successfully passed the NAPLEX exam.
Ability to work at various locations.
Ability to travel independently.
Ability to stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 pounds.
Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Staff pharmacist.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Create a welcoming customer environment and answer questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with customers and store personnel.
Use pharmaceutical product and supply knowledge to make recommendations to patients and prescribers.
Receive verbal prescription orders and accurately reduce them to writing in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
Interpret, fill or refill, label, and bag prescription orders completely and accurately.
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 information; receive prescription information from customers; deliver prescriptions accurately; and assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Call prescribers and prescribers’ office staff as needed.
Accurately and efficiently use the prescription computer system.
Maintain controlled-substance inventory, reconciliation, and research in compliance with recordkeeping requirements.
Promote appropriate immunizations and provide them safely and effectively.
Engage in clinical activities for which appropriate training has been received.
Delegate monitoring and ordering of supplies, properly stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
Assist with supervision and delegation of responsibilities to associates.
File prescription orders and records according to state and federal regulations and procedures.
Help resolve customer and personnel conflicts and problems in the department manager’s absence.
Run, review, and interpret reports.
Oversee department administrative needs in the department manager’s absence.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or mis-fills 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.
Stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 pounds.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
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 and 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.
Paid time off such as vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
Mental and emotional support resources through the Employee Assistance Program.
Participation in a 401(k) plan and/or a Taft-Hartley pension fund, subject to eligibility requirements.
Group term life insurance, subject to location criteria and eligibility requirements.
Potential bonus eligibility, depending on varying criteria.
Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, subject to location criteria and eligibility requirements.
Internal training and development resources.