PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-CASUAL

The Kroger Co.•Carbondale, CO

21d•Onsite

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, and welcoming environment, supports departmental 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, assessing them for appropriateness and patient safety, counseling customers and prescribers, and supporting immunization and other clinical activities for which the pharmacist is trained. It also involves maintaining accurate prescription, insurance, and controlled-substance records; managing inventory and incoming orders; using pharmacy computer systems and reports; and assisting with department administration and associate supervision when the department manager is absent. The role may require work at various locations and independent travel.

Requirements

Hold a current pharmacist license in the state of employment, without stipulations or Board-ordered restrictions.
Graduate from a U.S. school of pharmacy or pass a foreign equivalency exam.
Successfully pass the NAPLEX exam.
Be able to work at various locations.
Be able to travel independently.

Nice To Haves

Staff pharmacist experience.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Create a welcoming environment for customers and answer questions about products sold in the department and store.
Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with customers and store personnel.
Use knowledge of pharmaceutical products and supplies to make recommendations to patients and prescribers.
Receive verbal prescription orders and accurately document them in compliance 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 records; collect prescription information from customers and accurately deliver prescriptions to them.
Assist customers with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Contact prescribers and prescribers’ office staff by phone.
Use the prescription computer system accurately and efficiently.
Maintain accurate controlled-substance inventory, reconciliation, and research in compliance with record-keeping requirements.
Promote appropriate immunizations and provide them safely and effectively.
Participate in clinical activities for which appropriately trained.
Delegate monitoring and ordering of supplies, stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
Assist with supervising associates and delegating responsibilities.
File prescription orders and records in accordance with state and federal regulations and procedures.
Help resolve customer and personnel conflicts and problems when the department manager is absent.
Run, review, and interpret reports.
Oversee departmental administrative needs when the department manager is absent.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or misfills to store management and Sedgwick within the timeframes set by 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 eligibility and applicable 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 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 vacation, sick leave, and parental leave, subject to applicable eligibility.
Participation in a 401(k) plan and/or Taft-Hartley pension fund, subject to eligibility.
Group term life insurance, subject to location-specific criteria and eligibility.
Potential bonus eligibility, depending on varying criteria.
Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, subject to location-specific criteria and eligibility.
Internal training and development resources.