Pharmacy Technician

<p><strong>Pharmacy Technician **</strong><strong>Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM schedule!**</strong></p>
<p>The successful candidate will provide integrated support to patients and pharmacists by providing a 'hands-on" approach to total quality patient care through the delivery of a full continuum of medication adherence support. Candidates must be a licensed Pharmacy Technician with the State of employment.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What You’ll Get:</span></p>
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<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medical, dental, and vision insurance</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> starting day one</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">401(k) with match</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">4 weeks PTO</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">10 paid holidays</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Paid parental leave</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">short-term disability</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">, and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">professional development</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Access to employee resource groups and wellness programs</span></li>
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<p><strong>Job Duties:</strong> </p>
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<li>Interpret and enter prescriptions. </li>
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<li>Clarify prescription orders with pharmacist and/or clinician as appropriate. </li>
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<li>Label and fill prescriptions for the pharmacist to verify. </li>
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<li>Perform pharmaceutical calculations. </li>
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<li>Identifies medications requiring special storage and/or handling such as hazardous medications and/or refrigerated medication. </li>
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<li>Identify and assembling supplies necessary for select medications such sharps containers, needles/syringes, alcohol swabs, Band-Aids. </li>
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<li>Prepares medication for delivery to patients and departments. </li>
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<li>Answers, resolves, and triages inbound inquiries. </li>
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<li>Provides outbound therapy/medication adherence check-ups. </li>
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<li>Secures refill prescriptions. </li>
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<li>Resolves insurance related issues and assists patients with various forms of financial assistance. </li>
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<li>Maintains pharmacy inventory including drug ordering and receiving. </li>
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<li>Communicate directly with patients over the phone to assist them in the awareness of their medications. </li>
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<li>Achieve operational objectives by inputting data, performing adjudication on test claims and preparing action plans for follow-up. </li>
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<li>Manage, organize, and update relevant data using database applications. </li>
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<li>Apply observations and recommendations to operational issues, increased productivity, quality, and customer-service standards. </li>
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<li>Identify trends, resolves problems; recommend improvements; implements change</li>
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<li>Actively participates in process improvement initiatives. </li>
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<li>Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential. </li>
<li>Other duties as assigned </li>
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<p><u>Skills:</u>  strong phone skills, able to quickly learn other database programs and able to extract relevant information; strong organizational and interpersonal skills a must  </p>
<p><u>Traits:</u> Organized, high-integrity, attention to detail, dependable, quality focus, empathetic, good listener/communicator </p>
<p><u>Other:</u> energetic, highly motivated, team player with strong personal and communication skills; discretion and confidentiality essential as position deals with highly sensitive and private data </p>
<p><strong>Experience/ Education:</strong> </p>
<p><u>Required Licensure/Certification:</u><u>  </u>We are seeking experienced pharmacy technicians who are registered with the State of employment.  Should certification need to be obtained for a particular state or updated at the time of employment, the applicant will commit to obtaining the required certification within a mutually agreed upon timeframe.  Continued employment is contingent upon meeting these requirements. </p>
<p><u>Years of Experience:</u> Required 1+ years, Preferred 3+ years’ experience as a Pharmacy Technician </p>
<p><u>Education: </u>High school diploma or GED required </p>
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