Specialty Pharmacy Intern

Shields Health Solutions • Worcester, MA

12d • $20 - $25

About The Position

The successful candidate will provide integrated support to patients and pharmacists by providing a 'hands-on" approach to total quality patient care through the delivery of a full continuum of medication adherence support. We are seeking a highly motivated, self-starter who is looking for an exciting career path with a fast-growing company in the specialty pharmacy management services. Candidates MUST be registered as a Pharmacy Intern.

Requirements

• Required Licensure/Certification: We are seeking Pharmacy Interns who are registered with the State of employment. Should certification need to be obtained for a particular state or updated at the time of employment, the applicant will commit to obtaining the required certification within a mutually agreed upon timeframe. Continued employment is contingent upon meeting these requirements.
• Years of Experience: Required 1+ years of pharmacy technician experience preferred.
• 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 a must
• Traits: Organized, high-integrity, attention to detail, dependable, quality focus, empathetic, good listener/communicator
• Other: energetic, highly motivated, team player with strong personal and communication skills; discretion and confidentiality essential as position deals with highly sensitive and private data

Responsibilities

• Interpret and enter prescriptions
• Clarify prescription orders with pharmacist and/or clinician as appropriate
• Label and fill prescriptions for the pharmacist to verify
• Perform pharmaceutical calculations
• Identifies medications requiring special storage and/or handling such as hazardous medications and/or refrigerated medication
• Identify and assembling supplies necessary for select medications such sharps containers, needles/syringes, alcohol swabs, Band-Aids
• Prepares medication for delivery to patients and departments
• Answers, resolves and triages inbound inquiries
• Provides outbound therapy/medication adherence check-ups
• Secures refill prescriptions
• Resolves insurance related issues and assists patients with various forms of financial assistance
• Maintains pharmacy inventory including drug ordering and receiving
• Communicate directly with patients over the phone to assist them in the awareness of their medications
• Achieve operational objectives by inputting data, performing adjudication on test claims and preparing action plans for follow-up
• Manage, organize, and update relevant data using database applications
• Apply observations and recommendations to operational issues, increased productivity, quality, and customer-service standards
• Identify trends, resolves problems; recommend improvements; implements change
• Actively participates in process improvement initiatives
• Acts as a value-added business partner to stakeholders throughout the organization
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Other duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed