Pharmacy/Pharmcst-Relief

Kroger•Springville, UT

About The Position

The Pharmacy/Pharmcst-Relief role supports pharmacy operations and customer service by delivering accurate, safe prescription services and helping maintain a clean, welcoming department. The role assists the department manager with sales and profit goals, quality assurance, and department operations, and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The pharmacist provides prescription processing and counseling, supports clinical activities including immunizations when appropriately trained, maintains compliant records and controlled-substance inventory, and helps supervise and coordinate department work in the manager’s absence. The position requires the ability to stand for an entire shift and lift 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 customer environment by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with customers and store personnel.
Maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and supplies to make appropriate recommendations to patients and prescribers.
Receive verbal prescription orders and accurately document them in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations.
Interpret, fill or refill, label, and bag prescription orders accurately and completely.
Evaluate prescription appropriateness with regard to patient safety and legal requirements.
Provide drug counseling to customers and prescribers.
Use knowledge of 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.
Contact prescribers and prescribers’ office staff by phone.
Use the prescription computer system accurately and efficiently.
Maintain accurate inventory, reconcile and research controlled substances, and comply 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 supply monitoring and ordering, stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
Assist with supervision and delegation of responsibilities to associates.
File prescription orders and records according to state and federal regulations and procedures.
Help resolve customer and personnel conflicts and problems in the department manager’s absence.
Run, review, and interpret reports.
Oversee department administrative needs in the department manager’s absence.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or dispensing errors to store management and Sedgwick within the timeframes set by the Corporate Accuracy Policy.
Report safety risks, other issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.