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Arizona Employer Pharmacy Technician Trainee, Non-Certified in Sierra Vista, Arizona

This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/6552386

Job Summary:Assists Pharmacy Supervisor with day-to-day activities in the pharmacy. Travels to other pharmacies as needed.

Qualifications and Requirements:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Job duties may be modified at any time based on business needs.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Contributes to Effective Pharmacy Operations:

  • Demonstrates an understanding of and proficiency with the application of all Joint Commission Accreditation standards, CCHCI policies and reporting requirements applicable to a Pharmacy Technician Trainee.
  • Receives and processes prescription orders and clinic supply requests promptly and accurately.
  • Completes prescription order transactions by billing appropriate payer(s) correctly after pharmacist verification.
  • Prints required pharmacy reports and labels.
  • Assists the pharmacist with identification of prescription processing problems, proposing, and implementing solutions, and follow up.
  • Answers phone calls, responds to caller questions as able and/or transfers/ directs caller to appropriate phone number. Takes messages for pharmacy staff as needed.
  • Travels to pick up orders or deliver medications to clinic areas or other CCHCI sites as needed.
  • Prepares and facilitates daily and weekly bank deposits.
  • Maintains and files logs, records, and other required documentation accurately.
  • Ensures operation of pharmacy equipment by completing preventive maintenance and cleaning requirements, following manufacturer\'s instructions, reporting malfunctions, and requesting repairs.
  • Completes and documents medication storage area inspections.
  • Participates in pharmacy staff and other meetings as required.
  • Performs administrative and/or clerical duties for pharmacy department as needed.
  • Provides orientation and training to new team members and assists co-workers in completion of tasks.
  • Works assigned weekends as required.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Maintains Medication and Supply Inventory.

  • Assists in ordering, receiving, unpacking, and storing medications and supplies. Maintains the integrity of the 340b inventory as dictated by HRSA. Training for 340b will be provided upon hire.
  • Rotates stock to ensure use before expiration date.
  • Identifies and replaces, as needed, outdated and unusable medications.
  • Replenishes emergency and clinic supplies accurately and promptly.

Required Minimum Qualifications - Education, Experience, Certificates & Licenses:

  • High School diploma or GED required.
  • Pharmacy Technician Trainee License from the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy required.
  • Complete education and pass the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) within 2 years of hire date.
  • Valid driver\'s License.
  • Valid Fingerprint Clearance Card.

Preferred Qualifications - Education, Experience, Certificates & Licenses:

  • 1 year of experience as a Pharmacy Technician Trainee preferred.

Required Language Skills:

  • Ability to comprehend and compose instructions, correspondence, and communications in English in both oral and written format.
  • Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred, but not required.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to patients, internal providers and staff and other agency staff working in cooperation with the organization.

Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to occasionally exert enough force to move objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
  • Ability to continuously remain in a stationary position.
  • Ability to stand for extended periods.
  • Ability to constantly move about inside the workplace to assist patients, operate office equipment, etc.
  • Possesses hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to constantly operate computer, telephone and other office machinery, and grasp and seize small objects such as medication tablets and containers.
  • Possesses close visual acuity necessary to accurately record and view information on a computer monitor, handwritten and typed documents, as well as accurately identify and distinguish colors.
  • Ability to perceive the size, shape, temperature and/or texture of objects by touch.
  • Ability to discern the nature of sounds at a normal spoken volume.

Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

The intention to complete all training and performance requirements necessary to obtain licensing as a Pharmacy Technician with the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy.

Ability to perform medical math that may include the use of ratio/proportion, dosage calculation, metric and

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