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 18 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 Qualification "• With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous. • Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties. • Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations. • Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures. • Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department products (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store. • Memorize product locations. • Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters. • Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary. • Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members. • Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 - 50lbs. • Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags. • Operate manual and electric pallet jacks. • Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers. • If called upon, night crew clerks may need to learn use of cash registers. "
