Pharmacist Intern
Fred Meyer
Happy Valley, ORFresher1h agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
Fred Meyer, a part of The Kroger Company, is seeking a Pharmacist Intern to join their team in Portland, Oregon.
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.
- Monitor all established quality assurance standards.
- Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service.
- 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 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 risks, issues, and illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- 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.