Pharmacist Intern

About the role

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals and monitor all established quality assurance standards. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and competently discuss these products with customers and prescribers.
• Provide drug counseling to customers.
• Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
• Accurately input patient and prescription information into the pharmacy computer system.
• Dispense the correct medication.
• Contact prescribers’ offices for authorization.
• Bag filled prescriptions and deliver to customers accurately.
• Process third-party insurance information for customers and contact insurance companies on behalf of customers, if necessary.
• Facilitate charge purchases for customers.
• Accept and interpret oral and written prescriptions accurately for fill/refill.
• Clean the department.
• Provide immunizations under the supervision of the pharmacist.
• Compare and check incoming orders.
• Stock incoming orders properly.
• Return unused medication stock bottles to stock.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Notify pharmacist on duty if made aware of a prescription incident.
• Report all safety risks or issues and illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud.
• Perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Qualifications

• Be actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy.
• Hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.