Specialty Pharmacy Technician

Job Purpose:

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. We are seeking a highly motivated self-starter who is looking for an exciting career path with a fast-growing company in the specialty pharmacy management nationally certified and registered as a technician with the State of employment. We are seeking a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) with extensive experience.

Job Duties:

• Interpret and enter prescriptions.
• Clarify prescription orders with pharmacist and/or clinician as appropriate.
• Label and fill prescriptions for the pharmacist to verify.
• Perform pharmaceutical calculations.
• Identifies medications requiring special storage and/or handling such as hazardous medications and/or refrigerated medication.
• Identify and assembling supplies necessary for select medications such sharps containers needles/syringes alcohol swabs Band-Aids.
• Prepares medication for delivery to patients and departments.
• Answers resolves and triages inbound inquiries.
• Provides outbound therapy/medication adherence check-ups.
• Secures refill prescriptions.
• Resolves insurance related issues and assists patients with various forms of financial assistance.
• Maintains pharmacy inventory including drug ordering and receiving.
• Communicate directly with patients over the phone to assist them in the awareness of their medications.
• Achieve operational objectives by inputting data performing adjudication on test claims and preparing action plans for follow-up.
• Manage organize and update relevant data using database applications.
• Apply observations and recommendations to operational issues increased productivity quality and customer-service standards.
• Identify trends resolves problems; recommend improvements; implements change.
• Actively participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Acts as a value-added business partner to stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Protects organizations value by keeping information confidential.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills: strong phone skills highly proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word; able to quickly learn other database programs and able to extract relevant information; strong organizational and interpersonal skills a must

Traits:Organized high-integrity attention to detail dependable quality focus empathetic good listener/communicator

Other: energetic highly motivated team player with strong personal and communication skills; discretion and confidentiality essential as position deals with highly sensitive and private data

Experience/ Education:

Required Licensure/Certification:We are seeking experienced pharmacy technicians who are registered with the State of employment and nationally certified as a CPhT or equivalent. 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.

Years of Experience:Required 1 years Preferred 5 years experience as a Pharmacy Technician

Education: High school diploma or GED required

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Solid computer skills are required including proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Outlook Teams Word Excel and PowerPoint) for communication documentation and data management as well as navigating the internet and web-based platforms. Data entry and computer skills will be evaluated through an assessment as part of the pre-employment process.

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