PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-INTERN
About The Position
The Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Intern creates an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service and helps maintain a safe, clean, welcoming department. The intern assists the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals and monitoring quality assurance standards, while supporting the Customer 1st strategy and the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The role involves learning and discussing pharmaceutical products with customers and prescribers, counseling customers, assisting with over-the-counter recommendations, accurately processing prescriptions and insurance information, dispensing and delivering medications, and providing immunizations under a pharmacist’s supervision. The intern also supports inventory handling, department cleanliness, safety reporting, and positive interactions with customers and associates. The position requires active enrollment in a US school of pharmacy and a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.
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.
- Gain and maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and discuss them competently with customers and prescribers.
- Provide drug counseling to customers.
- Assist with recommendations for over-the-counter medications.
- 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 filling or refilling.
- 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 of any known prescription incident.
- Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
- Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment and manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively.
- Act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
- Follow directions and seek assistance when needed 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.
- 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.
- 401(k) plan and/or Taft-Hartley pension fund participation, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Group term life insurance, subject to eligibility criteria.
- Potential bonus eligibility, depending on location and other criteria.
- College scholarships and educational leave of absence, subject to eligibility criteria.
- Mental and emotional support resources.
- Retirement benefits.
- Opportunities for internal training and development.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
