Description
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Dispensing medical prescriptions, Bashas' pharmacists are highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals who help ensure optimal health outcomes for our pharmacy customers.
Some Job Responsibilities include:
* Managing pharmacy operations, hiring and supervising staff, performing administrative duties, and buying and selling non-pharmaceutical merchandise.
* Assuring customer satisfaction by providing a helpful, professional and courteous attitude at the pharmacy window and on the phone.
* Complying with all applicable federal and state laws and the rules and regulations of the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy.
* Providing accurate and efficient prescription service, reviewing prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients and to evaluate their suitability.
* Providing information and advice regarding drug interactions, side-effects, dosage and proper medication.
* Providing information and advice concerning the use and purchase of over-counter medications and healthy food products.
* Ringing sales on the register and complete sales transactions of cash, credit or debit.
* Monitoring patient compliance to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
* Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies and drugs and storing it properly.
* Maintaining records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for and registries for poisons, narcotics and controlled drugs.
* Providing specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation or high blood pressure.
* Collaborating with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications and characteristics.
* Compounding and dispensing medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
* Offering health promotion and prevention activities, for example, explaining nutritional benefits of various food items and training people to use devices such as blood pressure or diabetes monitors.
* Refer patients to other health professionals when appropriate.
* Plan, implement, and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management. Must be at least 16-years old.
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time;
This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned;
This job description is subject to change at any time
Employer provides reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee that does not impose an undue hardship on the employer.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Must be a licensed Pharmacist in the state of Arizona;
Ability to:
* Develop, manage and lead a first-rate pharmacy team capable of meeting department goals and objectives.
* Provide a pharmacy department that customers want to shop in and members want to work in.
* Communicate well with customers, health care providers, fellow team members and store management.
* Actively greet customers, seeking to build lasting relationships with pharmacy customers.
* Actively listen, giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
* Actively provide product information, suggestively selling products beneficial to the health of pharmacy customers.
* Sense when there may be a problem, being able to tell when something is wrong or likely to go wrong.
* To use deduction reasoning, applying general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
* While speaking, effectively convey information.
* Read and see details at close range.
* Read with comprehension, understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
* Use mathematics to solve problems.
* Write effectively.
* Effectively train others on the store/pharmacy team.
* Be socially perceptive, aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
* Actively learn, understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision making.
* Stand for long periods of time while at work.
* Demonstrate dexterity with hands and fingers, filling bottles, labeling bottles, rotating products, etc.
* Lift up to thirty pounds
* Bend and twist back while maneuvering pharmacy products and supplies.
