Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co.•Charleston, AR

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, promotes excellent service, and maintains a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment. The pharmacist supports department sales and profit goals, quality assurance standards, expense control, and technician scheduling to meet business needs. The position monitors pharmacy operations and ensures compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA, as well as company policies. It maintains appropriate records, inventory, security, equipment, signage, and pharmacy standards, including controls for scheduled drugs. The pharmacist also demonstrates the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

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 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 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 record-keeping practices necessary for legal compliance, Kroger policies, 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 such as 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, 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.
Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.