Pharmacy/Staff Pharmacist

Kroger•New Haven, CT

19d

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist creates an outstanding customer experience by embracing the Customer 1st strategy and inspiring associates to provide excellent service. The role maintains a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return; achieves department sales and profit goals; controls quality assurance standards and expenses; and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The pharmacist monitors department functions and activities and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position fulfills prescription needs with a focus on accuracy, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and ensures compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA. It also oversees pharmacy operations, records, inventory, controlled substances, equipment, product handling, and workplace cleanliness in accordance with company policy and legal requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy.
Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
Ability to handle stressful situations.
Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Ability to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

One year of retail experience.
Ability to speak, read, and/or write a second language.

Responsibilities

Fulfill customers’ prescription needs, concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
Ensure pharmacy compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; follow pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
Develop a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and its competition.
Create a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness, and cooperation with customers, associates, and outside vendors.
Monitor stock replenishment, inventory levels, policies and procedures, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment operation, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, management reports, and product recalls according to company policy.
Maintain proper records, inventory, and security for scheduled drugs, including controlled substances and narcotics.
Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources.
Ensure accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report, are used appropriately.
Establish and maintain records needed for legal compliance, company and accounting policies, and requested reports.
Keep the work area clean, neat, sanitary, and organized, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
Ensure product returns are handled promptly and according to company policy.
Maintain equipment, including computers, printers, accuracy scanners, and cash registers, in working condition.
Maintain and organize policy manuals, reference books, state laws, and required equipment, and verify that staff know how to use them.
Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and service signs, pharmacist photographs and names, and other requested signs.
Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.