Specialty Pharmacy Technician Albany, NY

Overview

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. We are seeking a highly motivated, self-starter who is looking for an exciting career path with a fast-growing company in the specialty pharmacy management services. Candidates must be nationally certified and registered as a technician with the State of employment.

We are seeking a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) with extensive experience.

• 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;
• Identify medications requiring special storage and/or handling such as hazardous medications and/or refrigerated medication;
• Identify and assembling supplies necessary for select medications such as sharps containers, needles/syringes, alcohol swabs, Band-Aids;
• Prepare medication for delivery to patients and departments;
• Answer, resolve and triage inbound inquiries;
• Provide outbound therapy/medication adherence check-ups;
• Secure refill prescriptions;
• Resolve insurance related issues and assist patients with various forms of financial assistance;
• Maintain 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, resolve problems; recommend improvements; implement change;
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives;
• Act as a value-added business partner to stakeholders throughout the organization;
• Protect the organization’s value by keeping information confidential;
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations;
• Other duties as assigned

Required Licensure / Certification: We are seeking experienced pharmacy technicians who are registered with the State of employment and also nationally certified as a CPhT. If certification needs 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 5+ years experience as a Pharmacy Technician

Skills: strong phone skills, highly proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word; 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

This information is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Shields Health Solutions. The current salary range for this position is $20.00 per hour to $22.00 per hour. The actual hourly salary within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience, and other relevant factors.

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