Pharmacy Technician II

Common Spirit • Tacoma, WA

71d

About The Position

Under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist, a pharmacy technician II, in addition to the tasks of a pharmacy technician I, will perform a variety of activities focusing on specialty pharmacy. Specialty pharmacy provides complex, high dollar medication therapies to patients with serious and life threatening health conditions such as transplant, HIV, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. These medications require special handling and intensive patient management touchpoints to ensure patient medication adherence to lower overall healthcare costs and reduce readmission rates. Performs all activities related to prescription processing and daily pharmacy operations workflow for the specialty pharmacy. Works in a highly regulated environment and must take care to abide by all state and federal regulations that relate to the practice of pharmacy including record keeping and infection prevention standards and will work in accordance with CommonSpirit Health and the specialty pharmacy policies and procedures. Must understand and abide by rules set forth by all accreditation bodies.

Requirements

• High School Diploma, or GED, Metropolitan Test or equivalent
• Required 1+ years retail or specialty pharmacy technician experience.
• Active Pharmacy Technician License in good standing in the state(s) in which the employee works, if required by state law PHARMTECH:XX
• Active CPT-EXCPT or CPT-PTCB or CPHT certification in good standing CPT-EXCPT or CPT-PTCB or CPHT
• Skills: strong phone skills, highly proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word; able to quickly learn other database programs and able to extract relevant information; strong organizational and interpersonal skills

Nice To Haves

• Preferred 3+ years retail or specialty pharmacy technician experience.

Responsibilities

• Performs all activities related to prescription processing and daily pharmacy operations workflow for the specialty pharmacy.
• Must understand and abide by rules set forth by all accreditation bodies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Water Transportation
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees