Part-time Retail Pharmacy Technician

Cencora; Lorain (OH); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Join an innovative company dedicated to creating healthier futures. As a Pharmacy Technician, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring compliance and providing excellent patient care. This part-time position allows you to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients while working in a supportive and inclusive environment. With a focus on professional development and wellness benefits, this role offers a unique opportunity to grow your career in the healthcare field. If you're passionate about improving lives and thrive in a dynamic setting, we invite you to apply today!

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision care

Wellness benefits

Paid parental leave

Paid caregiver leave

Professional development programs

Mentorship opportunities

Employee resource groups

Volunteer activities

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of ambulatory pharmacy experience required.
• Pharmacy technician certification from a recognized organization is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Create patient profiles and enter prescription information.
• Resolve insurance and payment issues with patients and providers.
• Prepare medication for pharmacist review and verification.

Skills

Effective oral and written communication skills

Ability to work quickly and accurately under time and volume constraints

Strong interpersonal skills

Ability to resolve patient issues quickly and creatively

Familiarity with pharmaceutical products and services

Strong organizational skills

Good analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Pharmacy technician certification

State pharmacy certification

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!

Job Details

The Pharmacy Technician obtains new patient's clinical and prescription plan coverage information, reviews new prescriptions, and/or prescription processing. This position is categorized as compliance critical and, as such, requires and is assigned specific responsibility for ensuring continual and proper compliance with all division, corporate, and regulatory requirements.

Location:

Lorain County Health and Dentistry

1205 Broadway, Lorain, OH 44052

Pharmacy Hours of Operation:

Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Closed Weekends & Holidays

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating a patient profile in the pharmacy information system.
• Enters necessary prescription plan information in the patient profile for processing and adjudicating patient's prescriptions.
• Responsible for entering all new patient prescription information into the pharmacy information system.
• Addresses insurance, reimbursement, and payment issues as appropriate by communicating with insurance providers, patients, and pharmacists.
• Participates in achieving business goals and metrics for the Ambulatory Pharmacy.
• Retrieves and prepares medication for pharmacist review and verification.
• Prepares inventory reports for pharmacist review to purchase.
• Submits, receives, and places inventory in stock.
• Answers inbound telephone calls and triages calls as appropriate based on the nature of the call to the appropriate staff.
• Assists with reviews and handling of all adjudicated prescription claims to ensure appropriateness of reimbursement, co-pay, and related financials; follows up on claims deemed inappropriate as directed.
• Provides required information for therapeutic consults with patients to Pharmacists.
• Intervenes with Pharmacy Benefit Manager Companies to resolve plan and patient-specific adjudication issues.

Education:

Typically requires a minimum of two (2) years of directly related and progressively responsible ambulatory pharmacy experience; bachelor's degree preferred. Pharmacy technician certification from a national technical certification organization, such as Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or comparable, is required. State pharmacy certification is acceptable if core competencies meet or exceed national standards.

Skills:

• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work quickly and accurately under time and volume constraints
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to resolve patient issues quickly and creatively to improve customer satisfaction
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical products, services, and drug interactions
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Good analytical skills

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that foster an inclusive culture and support our team members' purpose-driven lives. Our offerings include medical, dental, vision care, and a comprehensive suite of wellness benefits addressing physical, emotional, financial, and social health. Support for working families includes backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. We also offer training programs, professional development, mentorship, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora.

Part-time position.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or membership in any protected class. We ensure all employment-related processes are non-discriminatory and comply with applicable laws. Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities during the employment process. To request accommodations, contact us at 888.692.2272 or [e-mail]. We will evaluate each request on a case-by-case basis.

Affiliated Companies

Value Apothecaries Inc