Pharmacy/Pharmcst-Relief

Kroger•Salt Lake City, WY

About The Position

The Pharmacy/Pharmacist-Relief role provides pharmacy services while supporting the department manager in achieving sales and profit goals and maintaining quality assurance standards. The pharmacist is expected to deliver exceptional customer service, maintain a safe and clean environment, and model the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The role includes accurately processing prescriptions, counseling patients and prescribers, supporting immunization and other clinical activities for which the pharmacist is trained, maintaining controlled-substance records and inventory, and assisting with department operations. The pharmacist may work at various locations and help resolve customer or personnel issues when the department manager is absent. The position requires standing for the entire shift and lifting up to 25 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

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.
Be able to stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 pounds.
Be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Staff pharmacist experience.

Responsibilities

Promote trust and respect among associates.
Create a welcoming environment for customers by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, 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 reduce them to writing in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
Interpret, fill or refill, label, and bag prescription orders accurately and completely.
Evaluate prescription orders for appropriateness, patient safety, and legal requirements.
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 and accurately deliver prescriptions to them.
Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Call prescribers and their office staff as needed.
Use the prescription computer system accurately and efficiently.
Maintain accurate inventory and reconcile and research controlled substances in compliance with controlled-substance recordkeeping requirements.
Promote appropriate immunizations and provide them safely and effectively.
Participate in clinical activities for which appropriate training has been received.
Delegate monitoring and ordering of supplies, stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
Assist with supervising and delegating responsibilities to associates.
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 specified by the Corporate Accuracy Policy.
Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.