PHARMACY/PHARMACIST FLOATER (AD)

The Kroger Co. • Milwaukee, WI

10d

About The Position

Provide professional pharmacy services, including filling prescriptions, counseling patients, and supervising pharmacy technicians. Ensure services comply with professional standards and applicable statutes and regulations while demonstrating the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The role performs daily operational duties under the direction of the pharmacy manager and requires the ability to work at multiple locations as needed.

Requirements

• Board of Pharmacy license.
• Effective interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Friendly, approachable, and outgoing demeanor and ability to work as a team player.
• Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
• Ability to preserve confidentiality of information.
• Strong math skills, including calculating discounts, proportions, and percentages.
• Basic algebra and geometry skills, including calculating circumferences and volume.
• Physical ability to regularly use close vision, depth perception, and eye-focus adjustment; handle, hold, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and talk and hear.
• Physical ability to frequently stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch and lift or move objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• APhA Immunization Certified.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate teamwork to support customer satisfaction and a pleasant working and shopping environment.
• Provide friendly and efficient customer service, showing sincerity, patience, and respect in customer interactions and thanking customers for their business.
• Follow local, state, and federal health and civil codes and applicable licensing and dispensing guidelines.
• Interpret physicians’ prescriptions and enter prescription and patient data into the computer system.
• Provide prescription information to pharmacy technicians and supervise prescription filling.
• Counsel patients in person and by phone about medication side effects, administration, and potential drug/food or drug/drug interactions, and ensure they understand their medication treatment program.
• Consult prescribers about matters affecting the appropriateness of drug therapy.
• Follow approved efficiency and accuracy procedures when filling prescriptions.
• Administer immunizations under defined protocols.
• Provide direct patient clinical services, including patient coaching and medication therapy management.
• Monitor and maintain patient profiles.
• Monitor inventory levels to ensure adequate service levels.
• Perform daily operational duties under the direction of the pharmacy manager.
• Follow department policies, procedures, and best practices for pharmacy operations.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy regulations.
• Follow current merchandising, labor control, expense and supply control, loss prevention, and maintenance rules; report illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Comply with and reinforce food safety, sanitation, and safety regulations, guidelines, procedures, and programs; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
• Maintain the ability to work at multiple locations as needed.
• Perform the essential functions of the position 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 through 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 diverse career pathways offering potential for growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed