Your personal interactions with patients are everything when you work at CVS Pharmacy. Our retail locations provide a unique opportunity to mix your passion and expertise with customer service. As you counsel people one-on-one, you have the ability to make a powerful difference in their well-being. Here, we treat patients like family—always listening and taking a proactive approach to their health. When you join the CVS Health team, you can build an enriching career while making a lasting impact on countless patients and families. Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure medications reach the patient efficiently and safely
- Provide customized, best-in-class expertise
- Demonstrate genuine, authentic care
- Ensure the accurate delivery of pharmaceutical care
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 Staff Pharmacist, you have a critical role at the forefront of delivering our purpose, modeling our values, and demonstrating genuine, authentic care for our patients. In addition to supporting the Pharmacy Manager in leading and directing your Pharmacy Technician Support Staff, you are accountable for supporting the management, oversight and operation of all aspects within your pharmacy.
This includes:
- Pharmacy Professional Practice
- Patient Safety
- Regulatory Requirements
- Quality Assurance
- Customer Service
- Personnel Management
- Inventory Management
- Financial Profitability
- Loss Prevention
- Workflow Management
A key component of the Staff Pharmacist role is keeping your customers and patients healthy through adoption and management of patient care programs.
Additionally, you will:
- Lead with Heart – display empathy and compassion for your patients, customers, caregivers and colleagues on your team
- Motivate, inspire and develop your Pharmacy Support Staff by balancing assignments that maximize colleagues’ strengths, address development opportunities and decrease knowledge gaps
- Identify critical business opportunities and contribute to the development of meaningful solutions to drive growth and improve performance in your pharmacy
- Successfully implement 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 purpose to gain support and commitment
- Actively contribute to a ‘team’ culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm and pride
- Apply acquired knowledge to help drive healthy outcomes and differentiate CVS from competitors
*The above represents a summary of the functions of a Staff Pharmacist. Additional functions and physical requirements are available on the full job description.*
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*Required Qualifications*
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- Active Pharmacy License in the state in which you are employed
- Not on the DEA Excluded Parties List
- Immunization Certification through an accredited organization (e.g., APhA)
- No pending felony charges or convictions for criminal offenses involving controlled substances
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*COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement*
CVS Health requires its Colleagues in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.
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- If you are vaccinated, you are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shotprior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status within the first 30 days of your employment. For the two COVID-19 shot regimen, you will be required to provide proof of your second COVID-19 shot within the first 60 daysof your employment. Failure to provide timely proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status will result in the termination of your employment with CVS Health.
- If you are unable to be fully vaccinated due to disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or religious belief, you will be required to apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 30 days of your employment in order to remain employed with CVS Health. As a part of this process, you will be required to provide information or documentation about the reason you cannot be vaccinated. If your request for an accommodation is not approved, then your employment may be terminated.
Education*
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Pharm. D. degree
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*Why CVS Health?*
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CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We help people navigate the health care system — and their personal health care — by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day. As a CVS Health colleague, you will have a positive impact on millions of people's lives and inspire healthy behaviors in your community.
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We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, disability or protected veteran status.
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Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $60.00 - $74.00 per hour
Ability to Commute:
- Lenox, MA 01240 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Lenox, MA 01240: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
