Pharmacy Technician II

Value Apothecaries Inc; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision care

Backup dependent care

Adoption assistance

Infertility coverage

Family building support

Behavioral health solutions

Paid parental leave

Paid caregiver leave

Job summary

Value Apothecaries Inc in Reading, PA is seeking an onsite Pharmacy Technician for Reading Hospital Exeter Pharmacy. This full-time role supports a busy pharmacy open seven days a week with 8–10 hour shifts and rotating weekends/holidays. You will create patient profiles, process prescriptions, and assist with insurance and billing while delivering patient care and service. Bilingual Spanish is a plus and PA licensure is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years related pharmacy experience.
• PTCB certification or comparable national certification preferred.
• PA Registered Pharmacy Technician license required.
• Consult state board of Pharmacy for details.

Responsibilities

• Create a patient profile in the pharmacy information system.
• Communicate with patients, prescribers, and staff to solve problems or answer questions.
• Enter necessary prescription plan information in the patient profile for processing and adjudicating prescriptions.
• Enter all new patient prescription information into the pharmacy information system.
• Address insurance, reimbursement, and payment issues with providers and patients.

Skills

Pharmacy experience

Customer service

Data entry

Prescription processing

Insurance coordination

Inventory management

Pharmacy management software

Spanish language

Education

PTCB certification

PA Registered Pharmacy Technician license

Tools

Pharmacy management systems

Microsoft Office

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.

Job Details

This is an onsite Pharmacy Technician position for Reading Hospital Exeter Pharmacy, located at 4500 Perkiomen Ave, Reading, PA inside of Boscov’s. This is a full-time position supporting a pharmacy open 7 days per week. The schedule consists of 8 to 10-hour shifts with rotating weekends and holidays.

A Pharmacy Technician in our organization is a positive, charismatic, team-oriented individual with a dedication to customer service and patient care. Someone who can manage competing priorities, is technology savvy, and has strong communication skills would be a good fit for this role.

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.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating a patient profile in the pharmacy information system.
• Communicates with patients, prescribers, and other staff to solve problems or answer questions.
• 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 the medication for pharmacist review and verification.
• Submits/receives order and places inventory in stock.
• Answers inbound telephone calls and triages calls as appropriate based upon the nature of the call to the appropriate staff.
• Operates the point-of-sale system.
• Assists with the review and handling of all adjudicated prescription claims to ensure appropriateness of reimbursement, co-pay and related financials and, if needed, as directed, follows up all such claims deemed inappropriate.
• Assists Pharmacist by providing required information for therapeutic consults with patients.
• Intervenes with Pharmacy Benefit Manager companies to resolve plan and patient specific adjudication issues.
• Actively participates by delivering medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients as outlined by the concierge prescription and curbside programs.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education

Normally requires a minimum of two (2) years directly related and progressively responsible pharmacy experience. Pharmacy technician certification with a national technical certification organization, such as Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or other comparable national certification preferred. PA Registered Pharmacy Technician license or Pharmacy Technician Trainee license is required. For further information, please consult the state board of Pharmacy.

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Ability to work quickly and accurately under time and volume constraints
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to resolve patient issues quickly and creatively in order to improve customer satisfaction
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical products, services and drug interactions
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail
• Good analytical skills
• Proficiency with pharmacy management systems
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software for data analytics, reporting, and communication.
• Bilingual (Spanish) is a plus!

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.

• medical, dental, and vision care
• backup dependent care
• adoption assistance
• infertility coverage
• family building support
• behavioral health solutions
• paid parental leave
• paid caregiver leave

For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Full time Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law. The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory. Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: Value Apothecaries Inc

Cencora is a leading global pharmaceutical solutions company that is committed to improving the lives of people and animals everywhere. We connect manufacturers, providers, and patients to ensure that anyone can get the therapies they need, where and when they need them. We’re a purpose-driven organization, where all of our team members around the world are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures. We work together every day to help our partners bring their innovations to patients worldwide, creating unparalleled access and impact at the center of health.