PHARMACY/PHARMACIST FLOATER (AD)

Kroger; Orange (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Flexible scheduling

Tuition reimbursement

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Kroger is seeking a pharmacist to provide professional pharmacy services, including filling prescriptions, counseling patients, and supervising pharmacy technicians. The role emphasizes compliance with professional standards, HIPAA, and safety while upholding Kroger’s values.

Responsibilities include patient counseling, data entry, immunizations under protocol, collaboration with prescribers, and daily operations management to ensure accuracy and exceptional service.

Qualifications

• Board of Pharmacy license is required.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and maintain accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate teamwork to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant working and shopping environment.
• Provide friendly and efficient customer service with sincerity, patience and respect.
• Adhere to all health, civil codes and dispensing guidelines.
• Interpret prescriptions and enter data into computer system.
• Supervise pharmacy technicians and oversee prescription filling.
• Counsel patients on medications and potential interactions, ensuring understanding of treatment.
• Collaborate with prescribers on drug therapy matters.
• Follow approved procedures for accuracy and efficiency when filling prescriptions.
• Administer immunizations under defined protocols.
• Provide direct patient clinical services including medication management.
• Maintain patient profiles and monitor inventory levels.
• Perform daily pharmacy operations under supervision of the pharmacy manager.
• Ensure HIPAA privacy compliance and proper loss prevention.
• Follow health and safety regulations across the store.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Fast-paced environment

Team player

Judgement/decision making

Confidentiality

Math skills

Education

Board of Pharmacy license

Job description

Job Description

Provide professional pharmacy services, including filling prescriptions, counseling patients and supervising pharmacy technicians. Assure that all services comply with professional standards and applicable statutes and regulations. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate teamwork to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant working and shopping environment.
• Provide friendly and efficient customer service by demonstrating sincerity, patience and respect in all customer interactions and by thanking customers for their business.
• Adhere to all local, state and federal health and civil codes.
• Adhere to all state and federal guidelines regarding annual licensing and restrictions on dispensing drugs.
• Interpret physicians’ prescriptions and enter prescription and patient data into computer system.
• Provide pharmacy technician prescription information and supervise filling.
• Counsel patients over the phone and in person regarding possible side effects of medications, proper administration of medications, potential drug/food or drug/drug interactions. Ensure patient’s understanding of the medication treatment program.
• Consult with the prescriber on matters affecting appropriateness of drug therapy.
• Follow the approved efficiency and accuracy procedures when filling prescriptions.
• Administer immunizations under defined protocols.
• Provide direct patient clinical services, including patient coaching services and medication therapy management.
• Monitor/maintain patient profiles.
• Monitor inventory levels to ensure adequate service levels.
• Perform daily operational duties under the direction of the pharmacy manager.
• Follow department policies, procedures and best practices for all pharmacy operations.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy regulations.
• Ensure that all current merchandising, labor control, expense and supply controls, loss prevention and maintenance rules are being followed; report all illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud.
• Comply with and reinforce all food safety, sanitation and safety regulations/guidelines/procedures and programs according to company, local, state, and federal health code regulations; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
• Physical demands include, but are not limited to, regularly using close vision, depth perception and adjusting eye focus, use hands to handle, hold or feel objects, tools or controls, talk and hear; frequently stand, walk, stoop, kneel or crouch and lift or move objects up to 25 lbs.
• Maintain the ability to work at multiple locations as needed.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Board of Pharmacy license
• Effective interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Friendly, approachable and outgoing demeanor/team player
• Sound judgement/decision making skills
• Ability to preserve confidentiality of information
• Strong math skills (calculate discounts, proportions, percentages)
• Basic algebra and geometry skills (calculate circumferences, volume)

Desired Qualifications

• APhA Immunization Certified

About Us

From one tiny Cincinnati grocery store more than a century ago, we've grown into what today is the nation's largest grocer with nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states operating under 28 different names. As America's grocer, we take pride in bringing diverse teams with a passion for food and people together with one common purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit. With a history of innovation, we work tirelessly to create amazing experiences for our customers, communities AND each other, with food at the heart of it all.

Here, people matter. That's why we strive to provide the ingredients you need to create your own recipe for success at work and in life. We help feed your future by providing the value and care you need to grow. If you're caring, purpose-driven and hungry to learn, your potential is unlimited.

Whether you're seeking a part-time position or a new career path, we've got a fresh opportunity for you.

What You'll Receive From Us

The Kroger Family of Companies offers comprehensive benefits to support your Associate Well-Being, including Physical, Emotional, Financial and more. We'll help you thrive, with access to:

• A wide range of healthcare coverage, including affordable, comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, through company plans or collective bargaining agreement plans.
• Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles with paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
• Emotional and financial support with free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program and free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
• Valuable associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, technology and so much more.
• Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over your career, through our industry-leading Continuing Education program.
• Vast potential for growth, through an abundance of industry-leading training programs and diverse career pathways.

For more information about benefits and eligibility, please visit our Benefits Page !