Pharmacy Intern

About the Role

Fred Meyer is seeking a Pharmacy Intern to join their team in Portland, Oregon. This role is an opportunity to gain experience within a pharmacy setting and contribute to customer service and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service.
• Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment.
• Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals and monitor quality assurance standards.
• Promote trust and respect among associates.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical products and competently discuss them 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 customers accurately.
• Process third-party insurance information for customers.
• Contact insurance companies on behalf of 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 the pharmacist on duty if made aware of a prescription incident.
• Report all safety risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Pharmacy Computer System
• Ability to work cooperatively in a 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.

Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in a US school of pharmacy.
• Hold a current state-issued Pharmacy Intern license.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.