Pharmacy/Pharmcst-Relief

Kroger•Gillette, WY

About The Position

The Pharmacy/Pharmcst-Relief role supports the pharmacy department by delivering exceptional customer service, maintaining a safe and clean environment, helping achieve department sales and profit goals, and monitoring quality assurance standards. The pharmacist is expected to model the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The role includes processing and evaluating prescriptions, counseling patients and prescribers, supporting immunization and other trained clinical activities, maintaining controlled-substance and other pharmacy records, and assisting with inventory and department operations. The position may require work at various locations and independent travel. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Current pharmacist license in the state of employment, with no stipulations or Board-ordered restrictions.
Graduate of a U.S. School of Pharmacy or successful completion of a foreign equivalency exam.
Successfully passed the NAPLEX exam.
Ability to work at various locations.
Ability to travel independently.
Ability to stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 lbs.
Ability 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, 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 document them in compliance 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 compliance.
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 customers.
Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
Contact prescribers and their 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 the monitoring and ordering of supplies and ensure incoming orders are properly stocked.
Compare and check incoming orders.
Assist with supervising associates and delegating responsibilities.
File prescription orders and records according to 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 department administrative needs in the absence of the department manager.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
Report pharmacy incidents or dispensing errors to store management and Sedgwick within the timeframes in the Corporate Accuracy Policy.
Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.