Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Pharmacy Technician

Reports To: Pharmacy Manager

FLSA Status: Non Exempt

Summary:

The Pharmacy Technician assists the Pharmacists with ensuring customers receive the correct medications as quickly as possible. This person will assist customers both in person and over the phone, submitting refill requests, submitting insurance claims, filing prescription paperwork, filling prescriptions and cleaning the pharmacy.

Pharmacist Job Responsibilities:

• Follows established departmental and company policies and procedures
• Ensures the pharmacy is clean, sanitized and well maintained
• Enters new prescriptions into the system
• Delivers excellent customer service while assisting customers at the pharmacy counter, drive-thru, and over the phone
• Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration
• Protects patients by adhering to infection-control protocols
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Pharmacist Qualifications / Skills:

• Analyzes information
• Utilizes good judgement
• Strong verbal communication
• Working knowledge of FDA health regulations
• Pharmacology
• Managing processes
• Legal compliance
• Productivity
• Quality focus
• Attention to detail

Other Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Ability:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers/patients or employees of organization.

Math Ability:

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 and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Word; Microsoft Excel; and Internet Explorer. Accuracy in typing is essential to successful performance of assigned duties.

Requirements

 Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

• Graduate degree from an accredited pharmacy college recognized by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE)
• Completion of an emergency contraception training course approved by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE), curriculum-based programs from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy, applicable state or local health department programs, or programs recognized by the board of pharmacy upon hire
• Valid state pharmacist license (or must meet education requirement(s) for state licensure)
• Current BLS for Healthcare Provider CPR or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certification upon hire