Staff Pharmacist - Mt Gilead

Kroger•Mount Gilead, OH

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist creates an outstanding customer experience and inspires associates to provide excellent service. The role maintains a safe, clean pharmacy environment, achieves department sales and profit goals, controls quality standards and expenses, and schedules and staffs technicians to meet business needs. The pharmacist monitors department activities and demonstrates the company’s values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The pharmacist fulfills prescription needs accurately, administers vaccines as needed, and provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care. The position also oversees legal and company-policy compliance, inventory and controlled-substance security, record keeping, equipment maintenance, and the organized, sanitary presentation of the pharmacy. The Staff Pharmacist is expected to maintain and broaden professional knowledge and 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

Fulfill customers’ prescription needs while ensuring 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 personal 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 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.
Establish and maintain record-keeping practices necessary for legal compliance, company and accounting policies, and requested reports.
Keep work areas clean and organized, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter.
Handle product returns promptly and in accordance with 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 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, continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.