
PHARMACY/PHARMACIST (HR)
Lakewood, COJob$68.22–70.97/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The pharmacist fulfills prescription needs, provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care, administers vaccines as needed, and supports a safe, compliant pharmacy. The role also oversees department operations, including inventory, staffing, equipment, records, and quality standards, while delivering customer service and supporting associates and patients.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Create an outstanding customer experience and inspire associates to deliver excellent customer service. Establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Achieve sales and profit goals established for the department, control all established quality assurance standards and expenses and properly schedule and staff technicians to meet the needs of the business. Monitor all functions, duties and activities for the department. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Fulfill customers’ prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled
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Administer vaccines as needed
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Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers
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Ensure pharmacies comply with all local, state and federal laws (including HIPAA)
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Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct and attitude and the physical condition of the pharmacy; adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards
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Achieve a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers and its competition
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Create a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness and cooperativeness with customers, associates and outside vendors
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Monitor stock replenishment, inventory levels, policies/procedures, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, proper operation of all equipment, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, reports to management, and product recalls per company policy
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Maintain proper records, inventory and security on all scheduled drugs (i.e., controlled substances-narcotics)
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Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources
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Ensure all accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post dispensing audit report, are utilized appropriately
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Establish/maintain all record keeping practices necessary for legal compliance, company policies, accounting policies and other requested reports
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Maintain a clean, neat work area, including work counters, shelves, floors and the customer counter to present a professional, sanitary, organized image to customers
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Ensure all product returns are handled in a timely fashion and per company policy
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Maintain all equipment (e.g., computers, printers, accuracy scanners and cash registers) to ensure it remains in working condition
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Maintain and organize all policy manuals, reference books, state laws and required equipment and verify that all staff is knowledgeable of their use
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Maintain proper signage (e.g., store hours, counseling sign, services signs, pharmacists' photographs and names, and all other signs requested) in all areas necessary
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Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills
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Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment
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Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner
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Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information
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Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues
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Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults
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Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
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Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
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Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing
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Effective oral/written communication skills
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Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
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Ability to handle stressful situations
Desired
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1 year of retail experience
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Second language (speaking, reading, and/or writing)
$68.22 - $70.97 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 11,181 open Pharmacist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$68.22–70.97/hr
- Colorado median$61–82/hr183 hourly ranges
- US median$60–78/hr7,721 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $69.60/hr, is 3% below the Colorado median midpoint ($72/hr) — in the middle half of Pharmacist hourly ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 223 open Pharmacist jobs in Colorado and 11,181 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
- Walgreens72 open
- Kroger Family of Companies (this employer)38 open
- CVS Health31 open
- Experience
- Pharmacist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (3,547 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 7,008 of the 11,181 open Pharmacist jobs (63%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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