Pharmacy/ Pharmacist

About the role

Smith's Food and Drug, now part of The Kroger Company, seeks a professional pharmacist to provide essential pharmacy services. This role involves filling prescriptions, counseling patients, and supervising pharmacy technicians. Compliance with professional standards, statutes, and regulations is paramount.

Responsibilities

- Teamwork to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant shopping environment. - Friendly and efficient customer service, demonstrating sincerity, patience, and respect. - Adherence to local, state, and federal health and civil codes. - Interpretation of prescriptions and entry of data into the computer system. - Providing prescription information to pharmacy technicians and supervision during filling. - Counseling patients over the phone and in person regarding medication side effects, administration, and interactions. - Ensuring patient understanding of medication treatment programs. - Consulting with prescribers on drug therapy appropriateness. - Following efficiency and accuracy procedures when filling prescriptions. - Administering immunizations under defined protocols. - Providing direct patient clinical services, including coaching and medication therapy management. - Monitoring and maintaining patient profiles. - Monitoring inventory levels to maintain adequate service levels. - Performing daily operational duties under the direction of the pharmacy manager. - Adhering to and reinforcing department policies, procedures, and best practices. - Ensuring compliance with HIPAA privacy regulations. - Ensuring adherence to current merchandising, labor control, expense, supply control, loss prevention, and maintenance rules. - Reporting illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud. - Complying with and enforcing food safety, sanitation, and safety regulations according to company, local, state, and federal health code regulations. - Identifying unsafe conditions and notifying store management. - Regularly using close vision, depth perception, and adjusting eye focus. - Frequently standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, or crouching. - Lifting or moving objects up to 25 lbs. - Maintaining the ability to work at multiple locations as needed. - Must be able to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Qualifications

- Minimum Board of Pharmacy license. - Effective interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills. - Friendly, approachable, and outgoing demeanor. - Sound judgment and decision-making skills. - Strong math skills (calculating discounts, proportions, percentages). - Basic algebra and geometry skills (calculating circumferences, volumes).

Desired

- APhA Immunization Certified.

About Us

Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Smith's Food and Drug merged with The Kroger Company in 1998. Today, we serve over 140 stores across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. As part of the Kroger family, we aim to bring diverse teams together with a passion for food and people, creating amazing experiences for our customers, communities, and each other. We believe in supporting our Associates' well-being through various benefits, including physical, emotional, financial, and more.