Grad Pharmacist

About the role

We are seeking a Graduate Pharmacy Intern to join our team. This role offers challenging opportunities to learn and grow professionally within our Retail locations. You will be immersed in a culture of continuous improvement, dedicated to transforming health care for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Apply your didactic learning from pharmacy school and pharmacy practice into real-world practice.
• Complete a comprehensive training roadmap within 120 days of graduation.
• Support the pharmacy team to ensure smooth operations, prompt prescription filling, and accurate dispensing.
• Provide empathetic and caring service to patients, offering immunizations and other services.
• Contribute to positive patient experiences by demonstrating compassion and resolving or escalating patient problems.
• Take on greater accountability for supporting management, oversight, and operations within the pharmacy.
• Support additional patient health care services, including immunizations, point-of-care testing, and offsite clinic staffing.

Requirements

• PharmD graduate of a U.S. accredited program prior to beginning the Post-Graduate Training Program at CVS Health.
• Ability to obtain required pharmacist licensure within the required timeframe, per state guidelines.
• Ability to complete required training within designated timeframe.
• Regular and predictable attendance, including nights and weekends.
• Attention and focus: Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time.
• Customer service and team orientation: Actively look for ways to help people, and do so in a friendly manner.
• Communication skills: Use and understand verbal and written communication to interact with patients and colleagues.
• Problem resolution: Identify challenging patient or colleague interactions and choose the best course of action when faced with multiple options.
• Physical demands: Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods of time.
• Mathematical reasoning: Ability to use math to solve a problem, such as determining the total number of tablets to dispense, day's supply, and/or number of full bottles and additional bottles needed to fill a prescription.

Qualifications

• PharmD graduate of a U.S. accredited program prior to beginning the Post-Graduate Training Program at CVS Health.
• Ability to obtain required pharmacist licensure within the required timeframe, per state guidelines.
• Ability to complete required training within designated timeframe.
• Attention and focus: Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time.
• Customer service and team orientation: Actively look for ways to help people, and do so in a friendly manner.
• Communication skills: Use and understand verbal and written communication to interact with patients and colleagues.
• Problem resolution: Identify challenging patient or colleague interactions and choose the best course of action when faced with multiple options.
• Physical demands: Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods of time.
• Mathematical reasoning: Ability to use math to solve a problem, such as determining the total number of tablets to dispense, day's supply, and/or number of full bottles and additional bottles needed to fill a prescription.
• Attention to detail: Confirm prescription information and label accuracy, ensuring patient safety.
• Attention to detail: Maintain the highest level of self-awareness and provide in-the-moment coaching, training, and mentoring to pharmacy team members while sharing best practices.
• Attention to detail: Complete basic inventory activities, as permitted by law, and as directed by the pharmacy leadership team.
• Attention to detail: Understand and comply with all relevant federal, state, and local laws, regulations, professional standards, and ethical principles.
• Attention to detail: Comply with CVS policies and procedures to ensure patient safety, compliance with controlled substance dispensing and recordkeeping, and to protect patient privacy and security.
• Attention to detail: Deliver additional patient health care services, including immunizations, point-of-care testing, and voluntarily staffing offsite clinics, where allowable by law and supported by required training and certification.
• Attention to detail: Complete additional licensure and training requirements, in compliance with state Board of Pharmacy regulations, to obtain Technician Immunizer status to support preparing and administering vaccines.
• Attention to detail: Monitor for, and respond to, adverse reactions; report adverse reaction events per public health requirements.
• Attention to detail: Review and collect patient information; track and document for each applicable patient.

Skills

• Strong communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle stress and prioritize tasks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits.
• Employee discounts.
• Access to certain voluntary benefits.
• Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

Pay

The typical pay range for this role is $23.10 - $28.10 per hour.

Schedule

This is a part-time position, typically scheduled for 20-40 hours per week.