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Pharmacy Technician

Posted: November 07, 2023
Salary:US$19 - US$24.00 per hour
Location:Brooklyn Center
Job type: Permanent
Discipline:Allied
Reference:215516_1699441731
Work Location:On-site

Job description

Role: Outpatient Pharmacy Technician

Hours: Monday- Friday 8:30am-5pm

Location: Brooklyn Center and St Anthony MN (working in both locations)

Requirements: Current and Valid Pharmacy Technician License in the state of MN

Type: Long term, contract to hire

Pay: $19-$24/h based on experience

Responsibilities:

- Answers phones for the pharmacy department and directs calls to appropriate personnel

- Maintains knowledge of the Hospital Credit and Collection Policy and other related policies

- Prepackages, prepares, labels and hands out prescriptions after they are checked by a registered pharmacist

- Maintains cash registers, credit card machines and reporting for cash transactions

- Prepares daily deposits for the cashier's office

- Bills and credits patient medications

- Stocks inventory in Pharmacy

- Routinely checks and removes outdated and expired medications

- Delivers medications to patient care and ancillary areas and picks up new orders as scheduled

- Files prescriptions and reports

- Maintains the pharmacy in a clean and organized fashion

- Enters outpatient prescriptions

- Obtains and records patient drug histories

- Triages orders, determines priorities, processes orders and notifies the pharmacist as appropriate

- Performs various calculations to determine the correct dose using weight

- Identifies the appropriate product to process based on the prescription order

- Triages insurance rejections and initiates prior authorization claims as needed

- Uses appropriate pharmaceutical-medical terms, abbreviations and symbols

- Maintains a working knowledge of general chemical and physical properties of drugs

- Compounding medications as per Minnesota Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations

- Responsible for safe and careful handling of chemotherapeutic medications

- Assist with other duties as assigned but only after appropriate training

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