PHARMACY/PHARMACIST-INTERN

Kroger Family of Companies; Great Falls (MT); On-site; USD 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger Family of Companies in Great Falls, MT seeks a Pharmacy Intern to assist pharmacists with daily operations and patient care. You will help customers, learn drug therapies, and maintain accurate prescription records under pharmacist supervision.

You must be actively enrolled in a US pharmacy program and hold a state-issued Pharmacy Intern license. This role supports immunizations, insurance processing, and counseling in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy.
• Currently holds a state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.

Responsibilities

• Promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create an environment where customers feel welcome and valued by answering questions about products.
• Gain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and discuss with customers and prescribers.
• Provide drug counseling to customers.
• Assist with over-the-counter medication recommendations.
• 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.
• Contact insurance companies on behalf of customers when necessary.
• Facilitate charge purchases for customers.
• Interpret and accept prescriptions for fill/refill.
• Stock incoming orders properly.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Provide immunizations under pharmacist supervision.
• Report safety risks or illegal activity including robbery, theft or fraud.
• Work cooperatively in high-paced and stressful environments.
• Manage conflict in a professional manner.
• Maintain honesty and integrity with customer and business information.
• Follow directions and seek assistance to resolve issues.
• Assist minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults as needed.
• Perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Skills

Customer service

Pharmacy knowledge

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Pharmacy student enrollment

Pharmacy Intern license

Job description

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department, 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 be able to competently discuss these products with customers and prescribers.
• Provide drug counseling to customers.
• Assist with over the counter medications 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 customer accurately.
• Process third party insurance information for customers.
• Contact insurance companies on the behalf of the 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 they are made aware of a prescription incident.
• Report all safety risk, or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud.
• Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
• Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

QUALIFICATIONS Minimum

• Actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy
• Hold a current state issued Pharmacy Intern license