Kroger

Modified Full-Time Pharmacist

Posted on: 13 Dec 2021

Alexandria, LA

Job Description

Position Summary:

Create an outstanding customer experience by embracing the Customer 1st strategy and inspire associates to deliver excellent customer service. Establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Achieve sales and profit goals established for the department, control all established quality assurance standards and expenses and properly schedule and staff technicians to meet the needs of the business. Monitor all functions, duties and activities for the department. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Essential Job Functions:

Fulfill customers’ prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled.
Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers.
Ensure pharmacies comply with all local, state and federal laws (including HIPAA).
Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct and attitude and the physical condition of the pharmacy. Adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards.
Achieve a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers and its competition.
Create a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness and cooperativeness with customers, associates and outside vendors.
Monitor stock replenishment, inventory levels, policies/procedures, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, proper operation of all equipment, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, reports to management, and product recalls per company policy.
Maintain proper records, inventory and security on all scheduled drugs (i.e., controlled substances-narcotics).
Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources with Peyton being the primary source.
Ensure all accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post dispensing audit report, are utilized appropriately.
Establish/maintain all record keeping practices necessary for legal compliance, Kroger policies, accounting policies and other requested reports.
Maintain a clean, neat work area, including work counters, shelves, floors and the customer counter to present a professional, sanitary, organized image to customers.
Ensure all product returns are handled in a timely fashion and per company policy.
Maintain all equipment (e.g., computers, printers, accuracy scanners and cash registers) to ensure it remains in working condition.
Maintain and organize all policy manuals, reference books, state laws and required equipment and verify that all staff is knowledgeable of their use.
Maintain proper signing (e.g., store hours, counseling sign, services signs, pharmacists' photographs and names, and all other signs requested) in all areas necessary.
Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills.
Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Minimum Position Qualifications/Education:

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy
Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing
Effective oral/written communication skills
Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
Ability to handle stressful situations

Desired Previous Job Experience:

1 year of retail experience
Second language (speaking, reading, and/or writing)

Kroger

Cincinnati, OH

The Kroger Co. operates as a retailer in the United States. The company operates supermarkets, multi-department stores, marketplace stores, and price impact warehouse stores. Its combination food and drug stores offer natural food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers, fresh seafood, and organic produce; and multi-department stores provide apparel, home fashion and furnishings, outdoor living, electronics, automotive products, and toys.

The company’s marketplace stores offer full-service grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty care departments, and perishable goods, as well as general merchandise, including apparel, home goods, and toys; and price impact warehouse stores provides grocery, and health and beauty care items, as well as meat, dairy, baked goods, and fresh produce items.

It also manufactures and processes food products for sale in its supermarkets; and sells fuel through 1,537 fuel centers. As of March 7, 2019, the company operated 2,764 retail food stores under various banner names, as well as an online retail store. The Kroger Co. was founded in 1883 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.