Pharmacy Intern

Responsibilities

• Completion of a comprehensive training roadmap focusing on Key Learning Experiences (KLEs) that build aptitude in areas such as:
  • Following company SOPs at each workstation
  • Pharmacy workflow procedures
  • Providing empathetic and caring service
  • Counseling patients and fielding medical questions
  • Telephonic prescription processing
  • Maintaining inventory activities
  • Supporting immunizations and other patient health care services
• Increasing responsibility in ensuring the safety and effectiveness of pharmacy operations, including:
  • Managing and improving patient health
  • Ensuring safe and accurate prescription fulfillment
  • Providing compassionate care and resolving patient problems
  • Offering vaccinations and other services
  • Completing licensure and training for vaccine administration
  • Monitoring and reporting adverse reactions
  • Collecting and documenting patient information
• Contributing to a high-performing team, embracing a growth mindset, and being receptive to feedback
• Remaining flexible for both scheduling and business needs, while maintaining a safe and inclusive team dynamic
• Voluntarily traveling to stores in the market to work shifts as needed by the business

Qualifications

• Accepted into, or actively enrolled in, an ACPE accredited college or school of pharmacy
• Possession, or being in the process of obtaining, valid intern and/or technician licensure as required
• Ability to complete required training within designated timeframe
• Attention and focus: Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time, pivot quickly, and confirm prescription information and label accuracy
• Customer service and team orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people, responding appropriately, and understanding patients' reactions
• Communication skills: Using and understanding verbal and written communication to interact with patients and colleagues, utilizing active listening, and expressing ideas by means of spoken word
• Mathematical reasoning: Using math to solve problems, 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
• Problem resolution: Identifying challenging patient or colleague interactions and choosing the best course of action when faced with multiple options
• Physical demands: Being mobile and remaining upright for extended periods of time, lifting up to 20 lbs., reaching overhead, stretching or reaching out with the body, arms, and/or legs to grasp items, moving fingers repetitively, picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers, controlling precision, quickly adjusting machines to exact positions, stooping to a considerable degree, requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles to move items between low and high positions, including bending spine at the waist, closing visual acuity to perform activities such as: transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small parts, occasionally lifting up to 20 lbs. and/or exerting up to 20 lbs. of force, frequently lifting up to 10 lbs. and/or exerting up to 10 lbs. of force, consistently lifting and/or exerting a negligible amount of force to move objects, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately, having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication