Pharmacy Technician II, West Penn

Highmark Health • Pittsburgh, PA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Provides distributive pharmacy services, assistance and support for the registered pharmacist. This role involves processing medication orders, maintaining pharmacy inventory, providing customer service, and potentially handling insurance validation and financial transactions for outpatient roles, or compounding and preparing medications for inpatient roles. Central Fill Pharmacy roles involve the safe operation of material handling equipment.

Requirements

• Minimum Highschool diploma/ GED.
• Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT) or ExCPT Pharmacy Technician - National Healthcareer Association (NHA).
• Completion of a pharmacy technician training program or 1 year equivalent experience in lieu of formal training program.
• Upon hire and before start date, registration as Pharmacy Technician Trainee through the PA State Board of Pharmacy.
• Current incumbents as of December 14, 2025 have until June 30, 2026 to register.

Nice To Haves

• 1 year of pharmacy experience in respective area.

Responsibilities

• Processes medication orders including computer order entry, medication preparation and assembles all items prior to pharmacist final check.
• Maintains pharmacy inventory and supplies according to established policies and procedures, including inspection of assigned areas and use of pharmacy computer systems.
• Provides customer service by taking patient’s prescriptions and documenting all required information, handles all customer interactions in a courteous and efficient manner, and releases medications required by policy/procedure.
• For Outpatient Techs: Validates Medicaid, Medicare, or commercial insurance drug coverage and ensures adjudication is complete addressing any error messages, plus handles cash, prepares deposits and accounting reports.
• For Inpatient Techs: Compounds, stocks, repackages and batches from bulk medications. Prepares routine patient orders for IV pharmaceuticals including compounding, preparation and labeling of any IV admixture including antibiotics, solutions, irrigations, narcotics, parenteral nutrition and chemotherapy.
• Central Fill Pharmacy: Safe operation of equipment assigned, including but not limited to: forklifts, order pickers, reach trucks, or other material handling equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED