Description
Job Title: Pharmacist
Department: Pharmacy
Report to: Pharmacy Manager
POSITION SUMMARY: Performs all duties of a licensed pharmacist; ensures the safety, security, and integrity of all medications; ensures strict adherence to all laws and regulations governing the dispensing and sale of pharmaceuticals.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (responsibilities include, but are not limited to):
- Greets customers when within ten feet and four seconds of contact, by name if possible, during transactions
- Assist in supervising and recommending disciplinary action for associates in department.
- Assist with work schedules, assigning work, training, enforcing Company policies and SOP's,
- Ensures that the pharmacy complies with the HIPAA laws/rules/regulations, the laws/rules/regulations of the board of pharmacy and/or regulatory agencies and abides by and enforces all company policies and procedures fairly and consistently.
- Compounds medications, using standard formulas and processes such as weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients as needed.
- Administers vaccinations as appropriate, following established professional, federal, and state protocols.
- Assist with the processing of invoices, department reports, employee appraisals, inventory and supply ordering
- Assist in receiving pharmacy drugs and supplies and ensures that authorized items are received
- Process customers' prescriptions, by collecting the necessary information for the prescription based on the doctor's instructions; assists the Pharmacist in filling prescriptions; enters information into the computer, packs the prescriptions; and files applicable insurance claims.
- Calls third party insurance plans when unable to determine appropriate claim filing not achieved.
- Collects payment and processes transactions on the Point-of-Sale system.
- Monitors inventory stock levels in Pharmacy, Home Health Care OTC section, and in Automation Device (if applicable)
- Pre-packages and labels various pharmaceutical preparations.
- Processes invoices for merchandise received and alerts Retails Support Center of price discrepancies.
- Understand and abide by all company policies and procedures
- Performs other related duties as needed as assigned by manager
OTHER DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Use proper safety procedures
- Maintain a filing system for memorandums on procedures, third party plans, patient files.
- Stocks and/or faces pharmacy Over-the-Counter (OTC) items.
- Orders supplies from vendors.
- Maintains working area, sales floor areas, shelves, and storage areas to ensure that they are clean and orderly at all times.
- Performs quarterly inventory of items in the Automation Device (if applicable) and prepares pharmacy for inventory.
- Pull and prepare expired merchandise to be returned to the wholesaler or return company.
EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university of Pharmacy
- Must be 18 years of age to ring register per company policy
- State of Hawaii Pharmacist License
- Possesses First Aid / CPR / AED Certification
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Working with the public
- Basic mathematical knowledge and cash handling experience preferred
- Ability to read and understand formulas and measuring quantities.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Air condition while in store, subject to outside conditions of heat, rain, and wind while retrieving wagons/helping customers to their car, and chill temperatures if products need to be retrieved from chill
- Very fast paced
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands
Lift/Carry:
Stand
C (Constantly)
10 lbs. or less
C (Constantly)
Walk
C (Constantly)
11-20 lbs.
C (Constantly)
Sit
O (Occasionally)
21-50 lbs.
F (Frequently)
Handling/Fingering
C (Constantly)
51-100 lbs.
O (Occasionally) w/assist
Reaching Outward
C (Constantly)
Over 100 lbs.
N (Not Applicable)
Reach Above Shoulder
O (Occasionally)
Push/Pull:
Climb
O (Occasionally)
12 lbs. or less
F (Frequently)
Crawl
O (Occasionally)
13 - 25 lbs.
F (Frequently)
Squat or Kneel
O (Occasionally)
26 -40 lbs.
F (Frequently)
Bend
O (Occasionally)
41-100 lbs.
O (Occasionally) w/assist
N (Not Applicable) Activity is not applicable to this occupation.
O (Occasionally) Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0-2.5+ hrs./day)
F (Frequently) Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5 - 5.5+ hrs./day).
C (Constantly) Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs./day)
OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception)
• Sense of Sound (Hear oral communication and buzzers/alarms)
Don Quijote USA / QSI reserves the right to request a review of written employee screening practices (back ground check) before employment in the booth. Their employment will be contingent on the results, due to the amount of negotiable items and prescription drugs being handled.
R.102215
