Pharmacy/Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co.•Bloomington, IN

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist fulfills customers’ prescription needs with a focus on prescription accuracy and provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care. The role helps create an outstanding customer experience, encourages excellent service from associates, and maintains a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment. The pharmacist monitors departmental activities, works toward sales and profit goals, controls quality assurance standards and expenses, and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The position ensures compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA, and follows company policies and pharmacy standards. It oversees inventory, replenishment, records, security, sanitation, equipment, pricing, returns, budgets, reports, and product recalls. The pharmacist maintains appropriate records and security for scheduled drugs, uses required accuracy tools, keeps the pharmacy organized and sanitary, and ensures staff know how to use relevant policies, references, and equipment. The role also requires maintaining a professional image, developing knowledge and pharmacy skills, and demonstrating the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. Essential job functions must be performed 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.
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.
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 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 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.
Ensure accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report, are used appropriately.
Maintain records required for legal compliance, company policies, accounting policies, and requested reports.
Maintain a clean, neat, sanitary, and organized work area, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
Ensure product returns are handled promptly and in accordance with 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, pharmacist photographs and names, and other requested signs.
Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Achieve department sales and profit goals, control quality assurance standards and expenses, and properly schedule and staff technicians to meet business needs.
Monitor all functions, duties, and activities for the department.
Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.