Pharmacist Intern Behavioral Health

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This Pharmacist Intern will be located on-site at a Genoa Healthcare pharmacy in Kansas City, MO, and the intern program is full-time, 40 hours per week from June 2, 2026 - August 7, 2026. A housing stipend is available for qualified candidates that are not local to the Kansas City area.

The Pharmacist Intern will be working as part of Genoa Healthcare, which is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group's family of businesses. At Genoa, you will be a part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Distribute drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners
• Provide information to customers about medications and their use
• Perform clerical duties such as filing patient records and processing insurance claims
• Ensure compliance with all relevant laws of the applicable State Board of Pharmacy
• Administration of immunizations as allowed by state boards of pharmacy
• Any other usual and customary pharmacy duties
• Consistently exhibit behavior and communication skills that demonstrate the company's commitment to superior customer service, including quality care and concern with internal and external customers
• Adhere to having a safe and secure workspace and communicate with their leadership when that safety (equipment, system, information) is compromised
• Comply with policies, rules and regulations set forth by the Board of Pharmacy, and other applicable regulatory bodies
• Use, protect, and disclose patients' protected health information (PHI) only in accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards

• Currently enrolled in a Doctor of Pharmacy program, with at least the first professional year (P1) completed before the start of the internship
• Must have an active pharmacist intern license (or equivalent depending on state regulations) or be able to obtain an active licensure prior to the start of the intern program
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization (F-1 students with practical training and candidates requiring H-1Bs, TNs, etc. will not be considered)

• Previous clinical rotation, pharmacy intern or pharmacy technician experience
• 3.5 or higher cumulative GPA
• Previous experience working with behavioral health patient populations
• Strong understanding of medical and pharmacy terminology