Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co.•Noblesville, IN

14d

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist provides prescription services and pharmaceutical care while creating an outstanding customer experience and encouraging excellent customer service from associates. The role helps maintain a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment; 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 is responsible for accurate prescription fulfillment, patient counseling, pharmacy legal and policy compliance, inventory and controlled-substance security, recordkeeping, equipment upkeep, and maintaining an orderly and professional pharmacy. The pharmacist must be able to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

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.

Nice To Haves

One year of retail experience.
Ability to speak, read, and/or write in 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 the pharmacy complies with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
Develop a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and its competition.
Promote 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, recordkeeping, 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.
Use accuracy tools appropriately, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report.
Establish and maintain recordkeeping practices 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 staff knowledge of their use.
Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and service signs, pharmacists' photographs and names, and other requested signs.
Continuously broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Achieve department sales and profit goals, control quality assurance standards and expenses, and properly schedule and staff technicians.
Monitor all department functions, duties, and activities.
Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.