Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technician **Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM schedule!**
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.
What You’ll Get:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance starting day one
- 401(k) with match, 4 weeks PTO, 10 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave, short-term disability, and professional development
- Access to employee resource groups and wellness programs
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.
- Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
- Other duties as assigned
Skills: strong phone skills, 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. 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 3+ 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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Skills
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Basics
First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Location
Short answers (2)
- List your active State pharmacy technician license number(s). optional
- List your active National Certification number (ExCPT or PTCB). optional
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- Are you authorized to work in the United States?
- Do you now or in the future require sponsorship to continue to be eligible to work in the United States? (Including transfers) or Are you an F-1 non immigrant whose eligibility to work is based on optional practical training (OPT) and you require company cooperation in completing a Form I-983 training plan for STEM-OPT employment?
- How did you hear about Shields?
- Do you currently hold an active pharmacy technician license in Tennessee?
- Are you able to commute daily to Chattanooga, TN?
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