Staff Pharmacist

Kroger•Coos Bay, OR

20d

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist fulfills customers’ prescription needs while ensuring prescription accuracy, providing patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and administering vaccines as needed. The role helps deliver excellent customer service and maintain a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment. It also supports department sales and profit goals, quality assurance, expense control, and appropriate technician scheduling and staffing. The pharmacist monitors pharmacy operations and ensures compliance with applicable laws, company policies, and standards while demonstrating the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Knowledge of basic mathematics, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
Ability to handle stressful situations.
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 in a second language.

Responsibilities

Fulfill customers’ prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
Administer vaccines as needed.
Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
Ensure pharmacy compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA.
Maintain a professional image through appearance, conduct, attitude, and the physical condition of the pharmacy; adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
Develop 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, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment operation, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, management reports, and product recalls in accordance with 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.
Maintain records required for legal compliance, company and accounting policies, and requested reports.
Keep the work area clean, neat, organized, and sanitary, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
Handle product returns promptly and according to company policy.
Maintain pharmacy 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 in appropriate areas, including store hours, counseling and service signs, pharmacist photographs and names, and other requested signs.
Continuously broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict reasonably, cooperatively, and without confrontation.
Act honestly and with integrity when handling customer and business information.
Follow directions and seek assistance as needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.