Certified Pharmacy Technician

Overview

Christ Health Center is looking for a highly-skilled Pharmacy Technician to join our team. As a Pharmacy Technician at our center, you will be responsible for performing advanced health information management duties, such as providing excellent customer service, filling and dispensing medications, managing stock, and operating the cash register. Additionally, you should be proficient in all necessary basic technician skills during the course of business.

• Is calm, collected, professional, friendly, and helpful with all phone and walk-in requests from patients.
• Answers telephone in a timely manner, following organizational and departmental policy.
• Assist customers by answering simple non-medical questions, filling prescriptions, checking out previously approved prescriptions or referring them to the pharmacists for medication information.
• Receive written prescriptions or electronic fill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate. Use the information to enter a prescription for filling.
• Fill prescription using the premade labels to determine which medication is needed. Fill prescriptions bottles with the correctly counted prescribed medications and affix correct premade labels for the pharmacist to verify.
• Complete owes from previous day.
• Operate cash register to accept payment from customers.
• Inventory management, which includes, but is not limited to: ordering, restocking, entering order, updating inventory counts, maintaining par levels, verifying expiration dates and removing at risk medications. Maintains proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Manufacturer patient assistance programs which includes, but is not limited to: assisting patients with completing applications, complete provider section for provider signature, faxing completed applications through Athena, stock ordered medication in patient specific bag, identifying when patients need reorders, and maintaining and refrigerating medication stock for minimum supply level and expiration dates.
• Cleaning and general facility maintenance, including cleaning bathroom and lobby, removing trash, maintaining shred bins, sweeping and mopping floors, dusting shelves, and wiping counters.
• Operations management which includes stocking and maintaining labels, vials, caps, bags and cleaning supplies and delegating tasks to students.
• Conduct return to stock weekly by pulling scripts and notifying patients on Wednesday or Thursday and reversing them on Monday.
• Any clinic related task delegated by pharmacist at Christ Health Center.
• Each employee of CHC contributes to providing quality care and may participate in the patient care team and daily huddle as needed by the Core Care Team.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills in a multi-cultural setting; bilingual in Spanish is preferred.
• Analytical skills, attention to detail, effective organization, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize work.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

• High School Diploma
• Alabama Pharmacy Technician license

• Punctual and dependable for assigned/confirmed shifts.

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; ability to write simple correspondence and reports; ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group settings to patients, visitors, and other employees of the organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio and percent.

• The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions and to convey the information to others.

• Work requires the ability to lift objects weighing up to 20-50 pounds.
• Work requires the ability to carry objects weighing up to 20-50 pounds.
• Work requires the ability to stand approximately 90% of the time.
• Work requires bending, reaching, manual dexterity, and communication with others.
• Proficiency in proofreading and checking documents for accuracy; ability to use a keyboard and view a computer monitor.
• Clinic may be crowded and noisy; some stress from patient care.
• OSHA exposure risk category I & II; universal precautions observed at all times.

• Medical office environment.

• Understands Christ Health Center Mission Statement and Values.
• Consistently displays Christ Health Center’s Mission in daily work.
• Treats patients, visitors and co-workers with respect.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industries:
  Medical Practices