SUMMARY We are currently seeking a casual Pharmacy Tech to join our Hospital Retail CSC Clinic Community Pharmacy team. This position is casual, no benefits, day/evening shift, and rotating weekends. Under the supervision of a registered pharmacist performs a variety of technical and clerical duties allowable by law, while maintaining a favorable image of the pharmacy within the hospital and in the community. RESPONSIBILITIES - Answers phones for the pharmacy department and directs calls to appropriate personnel - Maintains knowledge of the Hospital Credit and Collection Policy and other related policies - Prepackages, prepares, labels and hands out prescriptions after they are checked by a registered pharmacist - Maintains cash registers, credit card machines and reporting for cash transactions - Prepares daily deposits for the cashier’s office - Bills and credits patient medications - Stocks inventory in Pharmacy - Routinely checks and removes outdated and expired medications - Delivers medications to patient care and ancillary areas and picks up new orders as scheduled - Files prescriptions and reports - Maintains the pharmacy in a clean and organized fashion - Enters outpatient prescriptions - Obtains and records patient drug histories - Triages orders, determines priorities, processes orders and notifies the pharmacist as appropriate - Performs various calculations to determine the correct dose using weight - Identifies the appropriate product to process based on the prescription order - Triages insurance rejections and initiates prior authorization claims as needed - Uses appropriate pharmaceutical-medical terms, abbreviations and symbols - Maintains a working knowledge of general chemical and physical properties of drugs - Compounding medications as per Minnesota Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations - Responsible for safe and careful handling of chemotherapeutic medications - Assist with other duties as assigned but only after appropriate training