Certified Pharmacy Technician

King Soopers; Brighton (CO); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

King Soopers, a leading grocery-/pharmacy retailer in Colorado, seeks a Pharmacy Technician to support dispensing, data entry, and patient care activities. You will cooperate with pharmacists to ensure accurate medication handling, maintain compliance with HIPAA and state licensing, and help deliver health and wellness services in-store.

Responsibilities include reception, adjudication, and dispensing steps, training staff, and performing CLIA-waived screenings where allowed.

Qualifications

• Must be able to handle highly confidential information.
• Completion of national registration, certification or licensure.
• Ability to adhere to HIPAA regulations and store policies.
• Provide exceptional customer service while following state and federal laws.

Responsibilities

• Support health and wellness initiatives.
• Adhere to HIPAA regulations and the company policies.
• Maintain required state registrations or licenses.
• Assist pharmacist with responsibilities and dispense medications.
• Provide a stellar customer experience and complete reception, data entry, adjudication, and dispensing steps.
• Coach and train clerks or technicians.
• Compound medications according to regulations.
• Perform post-fill audits matching records.
• Support non-dispensing services using various platforms.
• Complete CLIA-waived screenings per laws and policies.
• Provide additional health services as allowed by regulators.
• Follow sanitation and safety guidelines and report unsafe conditions.

Skills

HIPAA compliance

Customer service

Confidential data handling

Attention to detail

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Provide exceptional customer service to help people live healthier lives by treating our customers/employees in a fair and ethical manner, providing a safe, clean, inclusive environment, being a responsible member of the community, providing the right products, services, and care at the right time with fair and accurate pricing. Provide direct patient intervention by providing health and wellness services and experiences relevant to the patient as allowable by and consistent with state and federal laws. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support company health and wellness initiatives
• Understand and adhere to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations and the company's policies regarding the same
• Maintain a current national and/or state registration, certification, or license depending on state requirements
• Assist pharmacist in all responsibilities except those that require a pharmacist s professional judgement
• Provide a stellar customer experience while accurately and efficiently completing all steps of reception, data entry, adjudication, and product dispensing
• Support the continued coaching and training of clerks and/or technicians
• Compound medications according to state and any other regulations
• Perform post fill audits to verify prescription information matches computer records
• Support non-dispensing services through the use of various platforms, resources, and applications
• Complete the all aspects of CLIA-waived screenings consistent with state and federal law as well as company polices
• Provide any additional health and wellness services allowed by state and other regulatory bodies
• Comply with and reinforce all sanitation and safety regulations/guidelines/procedures and programs according to company, local, state, and federal health code regulations; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management
• Comply with local, state and federal regulations; report all illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum

• High School Diploma or GED
• Must be 18 years of age
• Ability to handle highly confidential information
• Completion of national registration, certification or licensure

Desired

• Any previous comparable experience
• Any equivalent experience of a pharmacy technician