Pharmacy Technician I Trainee
About The Position
The Pharmacy Technician I Trainee assists the Pharmacist with filling pharmacy orders, maintaining a clean pharmacy, and supporting daily pharmacy operations and customer service. The role requires professional and courteous interactions with patients and compliance with licensure requirements, applicable laws and regulations, and company policies. The trainee reports to the Director of Pharmacy and has no supervisory responsibilities. Certain functions require a pharmacist’s professional judgment and may not be performed by a company technician: accepting verbal prescriptions; certifying filled prescriptions; weighing or measuring active drug ingredients without pharmacist verification; reconstituting prefabricated medication without pharmacist verification; and entering orders into the computer system without pharmacist verification. Management may assign other duties, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Requirements
- Current license as a Pharmacy Technician Trainee.
- Current knowledge of applicable state and federal pharmacy laws, rules, and regulations.
- Organizational skills sufficient to maintain consistently accurate records.
- Ability to evaluate options and make efficient decisions.
- Computer proficiency with spreadsheets, word processing, the internet, and email.
- Consistently attend work and arrive on time; ensure responsibilities are covered when absent and arrive punctually for meetings and appointments.
- Demonstrate customer service skills, including responding promptly to customer needs, handling difficult situations, soliciting feedback, and meeting commitments.
- Demonstrate dependability, including following instructions, taking responsibility, keeping commitments, completing tasks on time, and working long hours when necessary to reach goals.
- Demonstrate clear oral communication, listening, clarification, responsiveness to questions, presentation, and meeting participation skills.
- Demonstrate teamwork, openness to others’ views, constructive feedback, support for team goals, and contribution to team morale.
- Demonstrate clear written communication, editing, adapting writing style, presenting numerical data, and interpreting written information.
- Continually stand, walk, sit, talk, and hear; continually use hand and finger dexterity.
- Occasionally lift and/or move 30 pounds.
- Required vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Responsibilities
- Report misconduct, suspicious activity, or unethical activity to the Compliance Officer.
- Represent the company professionally and courteously in interactions with patients.
- Comply with licensure requirements and applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and follow company best-practice policies.
- Assist in resolving patient concerns and complaints.
- Assume on-call responsibilities in accordance with company guidelines.
- Report product incidents as required by company policy.
- Participate in surveys conducted by authorized inspection agencies.
- Participate in the company’s Performance Improvement program when requested by the Performance Improvement Coordinator.
- Participate in company committees when requested.
- Fulfill assigned weekend work schedules to support operational needs.
- Participate in company-provided in-service education programs.
- Pursue continuing education appropriate to job responsibilities and certification requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned by management.
- Assist the Pharmacist with filling orders, keeping the pharmacy clean, daily pharmacy operations, and customer service.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
