Pharmacy Technician Trainee
About The Position
The Pharmacy Technician Trainee is a training position to become a Pharmacy Technician once successfully completing the Massachusetts Board-approved pharmacy technician assessment examination after working a minimum of 500 hours of employment as a pharmacy technician trainee. The Pharmacy Technician Trainee is responsible for helping the Pharmacists perform daily tasks to serve patients. Their duties include filling and labeling prescriptions, interacting with patients to answer questions or giving them their prescriptions and contacting patients to notify them when their prescription is ready.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent
- Previous experience in a pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
- State licensure/registration
- Experience managing multiple competing priorities; excellent prioritization skills. Creating a safe and effective environment
- Strong analytical and organizational skills including ability to analyze data to identify trends and communicate them through effective reporting methods
- Strong attention to detail; quality focused
- Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills including experience presenting complex information to senior leaders
- Skilled in exercising initiative, integrity, judgement, discretion, and decision making to achieve objectives
- Quick learner with customer service mindset
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with 340B program
- Familiarity with adherence packaging and home delivery
- Familiarity with the MassHealth ACO program
- Familiarity with Federally Qualified Health Centers
Responsibilities
- Supports pharmacy services by stocking, preparing and distributing medications.
- Help health care providers and patients by greeting them professionally, answering questions and requests, and referring inquiries to the pharmacist.
- Maintains pharmacy inventory, anticipating needed medications and supplies, placing and expediting orders, verifying receipt, and removing outdated drugs. Ensures separation of 340B drug inventories as applicable.
- Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
- Prepares medications for pharmacists to dispense by interpreting medication orders and prescriptions, preparing labels, and calculating quantities
Benefits
- Union membership with 1199 SEIU
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
