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National Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)

Costco Pharmacy
East Lyme, CT Full Time
POSTED ON 10/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/3/2025

Job Description

Confirmed posting - Kimete Kodra, PharmD, Pharmacy Manager

Must be registered with the State of Connecticut as a Pharmacy Technician, and must be a Nationally Certified Pharmacy Technician.

Description of Position:

Assists Pharmacist in filling and dispensing prescriptions for customers. Assists customers at counter, retrieves prescriptions, rings up customers. Orders and stocks drugs, supplies, and over-the-counter merchandise. Updates patient records and inventory, processes invoices, and makes accounting entries using computerized system.

Essential Functions:

  • Assists Pharmacist in updating patient profile and entering prescription information into the pharmacy computer to extent allowable by State law. Preserves patient confidentiality. Answers phones and provides prompt and courteous member service including answering questions at pharmacy window, directing members to product location.
  • Assists Pharmacist in filling prescriptions by bringing stock bottles, counting, pouring, re-stocking, labeling, and pricing prescriptions under direct Pharmacist’s supervision. Prepares third-party insurance claims, to the extent allowable by State law.
  • Orders, receives, tags, and stocks prescription drugs and supplies. Follows product storage procedures and standards.
  • Cleans department by sweeping, mopping, spraying, wiping, and dusting. Empties trash and operates trash compactor and cardboard baler. Follows security and safety procedures, including securing department by appropriately storing or disposing of confidential documents and by using proper disposal methods for immunization supplies and hazardous waste.
  • Assists customer at counter, receives written prescriptions for Pharmacist, and retrieves filled prescriptions. Rings up orders. Receives payment, makes change, processes checks, credit and debit charges.
  • Orders, receives, tags, and stocks over-the-counter product in accordance with merchandising plan for department. Creates product signs.
  • Processes invoices and makes accounting entries using computerized system.
  • Ensures proper cleanup, disposal and returns of hazardous materials. Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery
  • Computer, phone, fax, printer, manual pallet jack, computerized order/inventory system, cash register, hand held scanner, trash compactor, cardboard baler

Non-Essential Functions:

  • Assists with front end duties and in other departments of the warehouse as directed by the Pharmacist-in-Charge.

Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery

  • Cash register, tabletop/hand-held scanners, carts, flatbeds.

Job Type: Part time

Salary: $18/hour

Job Types: Part-time

Salary: $18.00/hour'
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Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible schedule

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

  • Detail-oriented -- quality and precision-focused
  • Stable -- traditional, stable, strong processes
  • People-oriented -- supportive and fairness-focused

Work Location:

  • One location

Schedule:

  • Weekends required
  • Monday to Friday

Work Remotely

  • No

This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:

  • Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous
  • People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
  • Adaptable/flexible -- enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
  • Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture
  • Achievement-oriented -- enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail
  • Autonomous/Independent -- enjoys working with little direction
  • High stress tolerance -- thrives in a high-pressure environment

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $21.00 per hour

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $21

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