Pharmacy Technician

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization.

The Pharmacy Technician will provide support services to the pharmacists.

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

• Receive prescription from patients and obtain necessary information for profile and insurance billing.
• Enter patient and prescription information into the computer and produce a label for the prescription.
• Answer the phone and record refill authorization information.
• Call medical office to request refill authorization.
• Answer non-discretionary questions from patients, such as:
  • Price quote
  • Product availability
  • Requests by patients if prescription has been called in and /or filed.
• Take refill requests from patients by phone or in person and produce a refill label.
• Place order to suppliers for medications and supplies.
• Check in orders and log invoices.
• Return medication to shelf when pharmacist has finished checking prescription.
• Perform financial transaction at cash register.
• Assist customers with finding OTC products.
• Pre-packing and labeling drugs for subsequent use in prescription dispensing operations.
• Fill prescriptions with medications taken from the shelf stock bottles.
• Count and pour from stock bottles from individual prescriptions. This function is performed under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist and the accuracy of the prescription contents is checked and initialed by a licensed pharmacist.
• Reconstitutes - restoration of original form of medication previously altered for preservation and storage by addition of a specific quantity of distilled water or provided diluent requiring no calculation. The accuracy of the technician is checked and the work initialed by a licensed pharmacist.

• Counsel patients.
• Answer discretionary questions from patients.
• Accept new prescriptions over the phone from providers.
• Enter the pharmacy without a pharmacist on duty.
• Review DUR information or patient history for appropriateness of therapy.

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.

• The technician must be qualified to be licensed technician in the State of Washington.

• The technician must speak English. Spanish or other languages are not required, but are strongly recommended.
• The technician must be willing to learn a new language.

The technician must be able to perform and comprehend basic mathematical calculations, which are required in pharmacy services.

The technician must be able to use common…