Grad Pharmacist

You’ve invested a lot of time and energy in your education. Now you want the chance to make your mark. We offer challenging opportunities for you to learn and grow professionally. In our programs, you’ll be immersed in a culture of continuous improvement, with the goal of changing health care for the better.

Position Summary
Health is everything. At CVS Health, colleagues are committed to increasing access, lowering costs, and improving quality of care. Millions of times a day, we help people on their path to better health –from advising on prescriptions to helping manage chronic and specialty conditions. As a graduate pharmacist intern, you have a significant role in our company working as part of the pharmacy team – delivering our purpose, modeling our values, and demonstrating genuine, authentic care for our patients.

Role
While working as a Grad Intern under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist, you play a critical role in ensuring a safe and effective Retail Pharmacy work environment that delivers exceptional care to each patient. This includes but is not limited to:

Patient Safety

Pharmacy Professional Practice

Regulatory Requirements

Quality Assurance

Customer Service

Inventory Management

Workflow Management excluding final prescription verification

Primary

Roles and Responsibilities

Lead with Heart – display empathy and compassion for your patients, customers, caregivers, and colleagues on your team

Support your Pharmacy manager in motivating, inspiring, and developing their Pharmacy Support Staff by balancing assignments that maximize colleagues’ strengths, address development opportunities, and decrease knowledge gaps

Identify critical business opportunities and meaningful solutions to drive growth and improve performance in your pharmacy and work toward successfully implementing those solutions by leading your team to achieve specified goals

Adapt to change and adjust plans to thrive in a dynamic community healthcare setting

Seek new ways to grow, collaborate with others, and deliver better outcomes

Align others around our purpose to bring your heart to every moment of your health and gain support and commitment

Facilitate a team culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm, and pride

Apply acquired knowledge to help drive healthy outcomes and differentiate CVS from competitors

Education

PharmD graduate of a U.S. accredited program prior to beginning Post‑Graduate Training Program at CVS Health

Required Qualifications

PharmD graduate of a U.S. accredited program prior to beginning Post‑Graduate Training Program at CVS Health

0‑3 years prior relevant work experience

Must possess or be in process of obtaining a valid Pharmacist intern and/or technician licensure as required by state BOP

Strong verbal, non‑verbal and written communication skills

Complete all required training within state guidelines and required timeframe

Ability to:

Have regular and predictable attendance, including nights and weekends

Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods of time

Lift, scan, and bag items

Finger Dexterity:
Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand or arm

Reach overhead; able to stretch or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs to grasp items

Extend hand(s) and arm(s) multiple directions to place, move, or lift items

Precision control: able to adjust machines to exact positions

Stoop to a considerable degree and requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles to move items between low and high positions, including bending spine at the waist

Visual Acuity:
Close visual acuity to perform activities such as: transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small parts

Able to orally communicate information and instructions to colleagues and customers

Occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs; exerting up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects

Ability To

Obtain required pharmacist licensure within required timeframe per state guidelines

Have regular and predictable attendance including nights, weekends and holidays

Complete any…