Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co.•Soldotna, AK

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist fulfills customers’ prescription needs while ensuring the accuracy of every prescription, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, and administers vaccines as needed. The role supports a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment and helps create an outstanding customer experience. The pharmacist monitors department functions and activities, helps achieve sales and profit goals, controls quality assurance standards and expenses, and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The role ensures compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA, and maintains appropriate practices for pharmacy records, inventory, security, equipment, sanitation, and product returns. The pharmacist is expected to maintain a professional image, cooperate with customers, associates, and vendors, and demonstrate the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The position requires working cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment, managing conflict constructively, and providing support to minors, people with special needs, and older adults. Fred Meyer is part of the Kroger family of companies. The posting describes benefits that may include healthcare coverage, paid time off, employee assistance resources, associate discounts, tuition reimbursement, training, and career development. Benefit availability and eligibility vary.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Knowledge of basic math, including counting, addition, and subtraction.
Ability to handle stressful situations.
Ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, cooperative, and nonconfrontational manner.
Ability to act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary.
Ability to perform 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, concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
Administer vaccines as needed.
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 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.
Maintain records required for legal and company compliance, 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 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 know how to use them.
Maintain required signage in appropriate areas.
Continuously broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict reasonably and cooperatively, without confrontation.
Act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
Help achieve department sales and profit goals, control quality assurance standards and expenses, and schedule and staff technicians to meet business needs.
Monitor department functions, duties, and activities.

Benefits

Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, subject to plan and eligibility terms.
Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and parental leave, subject to eligibility and applicable terms.
Employee Assistance Program with counseling and emotional support resources.
Confidential financial tools and coaching through Goldman Sachs Ayco.
Associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, and technology.
Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over a career through the Continuing Education program.
Tuition assistance, college scholarships, and educational leave of absence, subject to location and eligibility criteria.
401(k) plan and/or Taft-Hartley pension fund participation, subject to eligibility requirements.
Group term life insurance, subject to location and eligibility criteria.
Training, development resources, and career growth pathways.
Competitive healthcare and retirement benefits.
Mental health resources.