Graduate Pharmacy Intern

Job Description

About Company:

Lensa is a career site for job seekers. They are advertising a Graduate Pharmacy Intern position with their client, CVS Health, in Hawthorne, CA. CVS Health is focused on transforming health care by improving access, lowering costs, and being a trusted health partner.

Job Description:

This Graduate Pharmacy Intern position is designed to prepare pharmacy graduates for a Pharmacist role within CVS Health retail locations. The intern will apply their pharmacy school knowledge to real-world practice, supporting pharmacy teams and delivering on CVS Health’s brand promise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Following company SOPs at each workstation.
• Following pharmacy workflow procedures at each pharmacy workstation (i.e., production, pick-up, drive-thru, and drop-off) for safe and accurate prescription fulfillment.
• Contributing to positive patient experiences by showing empathy and genuine care.
• Offering to counsel, fielding medical questions, and soliciting information on a patient’s medical history to provide optimal care, when appropriate under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist.
• Taking telephonic prescriptions from the prescriber, and calling the prescriber to clarify prescriptions or facilitate medication changes, where allowed by state regulation.
• Maintaining the highest level of self-awareness and providing in-the-moment coaching, training, and mentoring to pharmacy team members while sharing best practices.
• Completing basic inventory activities, as permitted by law, and as directed by the pharmacy leadership team, such as accurately putting away medication deliveries and completing cycle counts, returns-to-stocks, waiting bin inventories, etc.
• Contributing to a high-performing team, embracing a growth mindset, and being receptive to feedback; actively seeking opportunities to expand clinical and technical knowledge needed to better assist patients.
• Remaining flexible for both scheduling and business needs, while contributing to a safe, inclusive, and engaging team dynamic; voluntarily traveling to stores in the market to work shifts as needed by the business.
• Understanding and complying with all relevant federal, state, and local laws, regulations, professional standards, and ethical principles. Complying with CVS policies and procedures to ensure patient safety, compliance with controlled substance dispensing and recordkeeping, and to protect patient privacy and security.
• Delivering additional patient health care services (e.g., immunizations, point-of-care testing, and voluntarily staffing offsite clinics), where allowable by law and supported by required training and certification.

Immunization Support (Where Permissible):

• Completing additional licensure and training requirements to obtain Technician Immunizer status.
• Educating patients about vaccines and obtaining informed consent.
• Monitoring for and responding to adverse reactions; reporting events per public health requirements.
• Reviewing and collecting patient information; tracking and documenting for each patient.

Required Qualifications:

• PharmD graduate of a U.S. accredited program prior to beginning the Post-Graduate Training Program at CVS Health.
• Ability to obtain required pharmacist licensure within the required timeframe, per state guidelines. Failure to obtain required Pharmacist licensure within 120 days of graduation will result in separation of employment.
• Must possess, or be in the process of obtaining, valid intern and/or technician licensure as required.

Essential Functions:

• Regular and predictable attendance, including nights and weekends.
• Ability to complete required training within designated timeframe.
• Attention and Focus (Concentration, multitasking, prescription accuracy).
• Customer Service and Team Orientation (Friendliness, understanding patient reactions).
• Communication Skills (Verbal, written, active listening).
• Mathematical Reasoning (Dosage calculations, day’s supply).
• Problem Resolution (Identifying and addressing challenging interactions).
• Physical Demands (Mobility, lifting, reaching, visual acuity, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of related work experience in pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
• Ability to become immunization certified: Once state regulations are met, pharmacy interns should be striving to provide patient immunizations as this is an essential pharmacist function
• Ability to work in home store, and across the market in other locations, to meet business needs
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

Pay Range:

• $23.10 – $28.10

Application Deadline:

• 09/01/2025