Pharmacy/Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co.•Columbus, IN

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist creates an outstanding customer experience by embracing the Customer 1st strategy and inspiring associates to deliver excellent service. The role establishes and maintains a safe, clean 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 demonstrates the company's values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position fulfills customers' prescription needs with a focus on accuracy, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and ensures compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA. It maintains professional standards for the pharmacist and pharmacy, oversees inventory, records, security, equipment, returns, and other department operations, and ensures compliance with company policies and legal requirements. The pharmacist also maintains pharmacy knowledge and skills and must be able to perform 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

Create an outstanding customer experience by embracing the Customer 1st strategy and inspiring associates to provide excellent service.
Establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages customers to return.
Achieve department sales and profit goals, control quality assurance standards and expenses, and schedule and staff technicians to meet business needs.
Monitor all department functions, duties, and activities, and demonstrate company values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Fulfill customers' prescription needs while ensuring 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 appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; follow pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
Develop thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers, and competitors.
Promote a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness, and cooperation with customers, associates, and outside vendors.
Monitor stock replenishment, inventory, 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.
Maintain records needed for legal compliance, Kroger policies, accounting policies, and requested reports.
Keep work areas clean, neat, organized, and sanitary, 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 ensure staff know how to use them.
Maintain required signage, including store hours, counseling and service signs, pharmacists' photographs and names, and other requested signs.
Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.