Specialty Pharmacy Technician

Cardinal Health•Knoxville, TN

9d•$19 - $24•Onsite

About The Position

Cardinal Health is looking for a highly motivated pharmacy technician to work in a Cardinal Health managed hospital-based outpatient specialty pharmacy. Our technicians play an important role in delivering medication and pharmaceutical care to patients. This includes developing close relationships with patients in communities we serve and assisting the pharmacists in accurately preparing and delivering prescription medication.

Requirements

High School diploma, GED or equivalent, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
Tennessee pharmacy technician license required.
National pharmacy technician certification (PTCB) preferred.
Specialty pharmacy experience preferred.
2+ years with retail pharmacy technician related experience preferred.
340B understanding and experience preferred.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong customer service skills.
Demonstrated ability to use technology such as computers, smart phones and tablets.
May require vendor credentialing.
Applies acquired knowledge and skills to complete standard tasks.
Readily learns and applies new information and methods to work in assigned area.
Maintains appropriate licenses, training and certifications.
Works on routine assignments that require some problem resolution.
Works within clearly defined standard operating procedures and/or scientific methods.
Adheres to all quality guidelines.
Works under moderate degree of supervision.
Work typically involves regular review of output by work lead or supervisor.
Refers complex unusual problems to supervisor.

Responsibilities

Maintain professional working relationships at all times, with the pharmacy personnel, physicians, nurses, and other medical personnel.
Understand that the requirements of working in a pharmacy are varied and may change as demands on the department change.
Be available to the customer/patients at all times.
Maintain friendly and helpful attitude at all times when dealing with customers.
Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
Organizes medications for pharmacist to dispense by profiling prescriptions, preparing labels and calculating quantities.
Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and ordering when needed.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Works with pharmacy team to ensure best practices are being followed with regards to 340B.
Other duties as assigned.