Pharmacy/Staff Pharmacist

The Kroger Co.•Bloomington, IN

19d

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist fulfills customers’ prescription needs while maintaining prescription accuracy and providing patient counseling and pharmaceutical care. The role helps create an excellent customer experience, supports associates in delivering strong service, and maintains a safe, clean, professional pharmacy environment. The pharmacist is responsible for meeting department sales and profit goals, controlling expenses and quality standards, and scheduling and staffing technicians to meet business needs. The position monitors pharmacy operations, including inventory, stock replenishment, records, security, sanitation, scheduling, equipment, pricing, returns, budgets, reporting, and product recalls. It ensures compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including HIPAA, and with company, accounting, and legal policies. The pharmacist also maintains the accuracy tools, controlled-substance records, policy manuals, reference materials, signage, and pharmacy equipment. The role requires maintaining a professional image, keeping the work area clean and organized, and continually developing pharmacy knowledge and skills. 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.

Nice To Haves

One year of retail experience.
A second language, in speaking, reading, and/or writing.

Responsibilities

Fulfill customers’ prescription needs, concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
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; 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 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.
Use accuracy tools appropriately, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post-dispensing audit report.
Maintain records necessary for legal compliance, Kroger policies, accounting policies, and requested reports.
Keep the work area, including counters, shelves, floors, and the customer counter, clean, neat, sanitary, and organized.
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 that staff members 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 and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Help achieve department sales and profit goals, control expenses and quality standards, and schedule and staff technicians to meet business needs.
Monitor all functions, duties, and activities of the department.
Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.