Pharmacy Technician - Float

OneOncology • Grand Rapids, MI

2d

About The Position

The Pharmacy Technician dispenses prescription drugs and assists with preparing and charging medications and supplies under a pharmacist’s supervision. The role provides quality patient care and customer service, processes and interprets physician orders for infusion or specialty retail pharmacy, and follows departmental procedures for inventory control, claims submission, and administrative tasks.

The technician is assigned to infusion or retail pharmacies at CHC locations based on staffing needs and must work a 40-hour week while floating among locations, except Roseville Michigan Cancer Specialists. Shift times may be adjusted by Pharmacy Management to balance work time and travel time. Reliable transportation is required. A temporary long-term clinic placement serves as the technician’s home site until the assignment ends; Pharmacy Management will provide advance notice. Mileage and travel time to that temporary site are not approved during the placement, and mileage and travel pay are defined by the Employee Handbook.

Requirements

• Michigan Licensed Pharmacy Technician.
• Retail pharmacy and/or infusion pharmacy experience, claim reconciliation, or accounting background is helpful.
• Ability to work a 40-hour week at various locations and float to all CHC locations except Roseville Michigan Cancer Specialists.
• Reliable transportation.
• Flexibility with assigned locations and short-notice reassignments.

Nice To Haves

• Retail pharmacy experience.
• Infusion pharmacy experience.
• Claim reconciliation background.
• Accounting background.

Responsibilities

• Dispense prescription drugs and assist with preparation and charging of medications and supplies under pharmacist supervision.
• Input customer and prescription data into the pharmacy computer system; create prescription labels, retrieve medications accurately, and place them into prescription containers in accordance with applicable law and pharmacist supervision.
• Provide excellent customer service in the Retail Pharmacy department.
• Control inventory and accurately handle pharmaceuticals, packing slips, and invoices.
• Handle telephone inquiries and help resolve issues and complaints promptly.
• File claims properly in the QS-1 NRx environment and enter customer purchases into the point-of-sale system.
• Accept telephone prescriptions and refills from physician offices and written prescriptions from patients; complete related prescription paperwork.
• Use aseptic technique to accurately prepare Compounded Sterile Products, including anticancer chemotherapeutic medications, under direct or indirect pharmacist supervision.
• Follow CHC protocols and NIOSH/OSHA guidelines for the preparation, delivery, and disposal of potentially cytotoxic agents to protect patients and personnel.
• Enter physician orders correctly; check patient profiles, allergies, duplicate therapies, and drug interactions for review by a pharmacist or other qualified healthcare professional.
• Precisely charge and credit patients, nursing units, and other facilities for medications dispensed by the pharmacy.
• Monitor and maintain drug, controlled-substance, research, indigent, and sample inventories and associated logs.
• Float among assigned CHC locations, accommodate location flexibility and short-notice reassignments, and perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed