Pharmacist - Sign-On Bonus Available

RXinsider LTD.; Bowling Green, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Employee discount

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Job summary

Kroger is seeking a Pharmacy professional to provide outstanding customer service, fill prescriptions accurately, and deliver pharmaceutical care. You will contribute to a safe, clean environment and support a team focused on patient outcomes.

Responsibilities include handling vaccines, counseling patients, and ensuring compliance with laws and company policies while maintaining professional standards and inventory controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or PharmD (or Foreign Pharmacist Equivalent).
• Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing.
• Effective oral/written communication skills.
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, subtraction).
• Ability to handle stressful situations.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill customers' prescription needs with high accuracy.
• Administer vaccines as needed.
• Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care.
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal laws including HIPAA.
• Maintain professional image and adherence to dress standards.
• Monitor stock, inventory, pricing, and reports; manage recalls.
• Maintain records for legal compliance and policy requirements.
• Ensure proper operation and maintenance of pharmacy equipment.
• Handle scheduled drugs securely and accurately.
• Maintain signage and store appearance for a professional image.

Skills

Communication skills

Math skills

Stress management

Pharmacy knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or PharmD

Foreign Pharmacist Equivalency recognized by Board

State pharmacist licensure in good standing

Job description

Up to $25,000 Sign-On Bonus Available!

Join Kroger, where People Matter. Be a part of a reliable brand that offers a better work life balance and properly staffed technician support. With more trained technicians than our competitors, you will have the support system in place that allows you more autonomy and the ability to enhance patient outcomes.

We are interested in every qualified candidate and will consider sponsorship of work visas for this position.

Position Summary

Create an outstanding customer experience 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
• Administer vaccines as needed
• 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
• 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, company 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 signage (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 job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum Position Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or PharmD or recognition as a Foreign Pharmacist Equivalent graduate from the Board of 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 Experience/Education

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

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance