PRN Pharmacist

Kroger • North Chesterfield, VA

6d

About The Position

The Pharmacist provides exceptional customer service while supporting a safe, clean pharmacy environment and helping the department meet its sales, profit, and quality assurance goals. The role models the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The pharmacist performs prescription processing and counseling, supports clinical services such as immunizations, maintains accurate records and controlled-substance inventory, and assists with department operations and personnel matters when the department manager is absent.

Requirements

• Current pharmacist license in the state where employment is sought, without 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.

Nice To Haves

• Staff pharmacist experience.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates and provide a welcoming, helpful experience for customers.
• Answer questions about products and communicate effectively with customers and store personnel, both verbally and in writing.
• 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 and 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.
• Follow third-party billing procedures and maintain accurate insurance and prescription records; receive prescription information and deliver prescriptions accurately to customers.
• Make phone calls to prescribers and prescribers’ office staff.
• Use the RX computer system accurately and efficiently.
• Maintain accurate inventory and reconcile and research controlled substances in accordance with required recordkeeping procedures.
• Promote appropriate immunizations and administer them safely and effectively; participate in clinical activities for which appropriately trained.
• Delegate monitoring and ordering of supplies, stock incoming orders, and compare and check incoming orders.
• Supervise and delegate associate responsibilities as needed.
• File prescription orders and records in accordance with 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 and oversee departmental administrative needs when the department manager is absent.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report pharmacy incidents and dispensing errors to store management and Sedgwick within required timeframes.
• Report safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Stand for the entire shift and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

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