PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-INTERN
About The Position
The Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Intern helps provide an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and maintains a safe, clean, and welcoming pharmacy environment. The role assists the department manager in meeting sales and profit goals and in monitoring quality assurance standards. The intern supports the Customer 1st strategy and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position involves discussing pharmaceutical products with customers and prescribers, counseling customers, assisting with over-the-counter medication recommendations, processing and dispensing prescriptions accurately, handling insurance and payment processes, assisting with immunizations under pharmacist supervision, and maintaining pharmacy inventory and cleanliness. The role also requires cooperative conduct in a fast-paced environment, sound handling of customer and business information, and reporting safety issues or incidents. Applicants must be actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy and hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license. The posting describes flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles but does not specify the schedule for this position.
Requirements
- Actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy.
- Hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.
Responsibilities
- Promote trust and respect among associates.
- Create a welcoming environment by answering customer questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
- Maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and discuss them competently with customers and prescribers.
- Provide drug counseling to customers.
- Assist customers with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
- Accurately enter patient and prescription information into the pharmacy computer system.
- Dispense the correct medication.
- Contact prescribers’ offices for authorization.
- Accurately bag filled prescriptions and deliver them to customers.
- Process third-party insurance information for customers and contact insurance companies on their behalf when necessary.
- Facilitate charge purchases for customers.
- Accurately accept and interpret oral and written prescriptions for fills and refills.
- Clean the department.
- Provide immunizations under the supervision of a pharmacist.
- Compare and check incoming orders, stock them properly, and return unused medication stock bottles to stock.
- Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
- Notify the pharmacist on duty upon becoming aware of a prescription incident.
- Report safety risks or issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
- Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
- Manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
- Act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
- Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
- Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
- 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 and eligibility terms.
- 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 career pathways.
- Paid time off such as vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
- Participation in a 401(k) plan and/or a Taft-Hartley pension fund, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Group term life insurance, subject to eligibility criteria.
- Potential bonus eligibility, depending on criteria.
- Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, depending on location and eligibility.
- Internal training and development resources.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
