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Community Pharmacy Technician - Per Diem

Bargaining Unit: EA

Rate of Pay: $36.12 (Base pay of $31.41/hour includes 12.5% per diem premium)

Summary
Assists pharmacists in preparing and dispensing medications, maintaining inventory, and maintaining patient records.

• Greets patients.
• Enters patient demographic and insurance information into the pharmacy’s prescription processing software.
• Processes prescriptions presented by customers and physicians.
• Types prescriptions with pharmacist oversight and troubleshoots all issues involved with this task.
• Verifies insurance coverage, and troubleshoots issues by calling insurance and workers’ compensation carriers as necessary.
• Manages cash register including troubleshooting credit card vendors, software updates, and accurate cash handling, returns and assists with closing out the register as required.
• Assists in bookkeeping duties including batching registers nightly, collecting and tracking accounts and Accounts Receivables from customers. Records totals shown on case register tape and verifies against cash on hand.
• Makes deposits to the bank and change orders as necessary.
• Manages the retail pharmacy’s front end over-the counter.
• Tracks inventory and orders items as necessary with oversight of pharmacist.
• Researches new items of interest for consideration for retail sale.
• Orders specialty items per customer requests from our drug wholesalers or warehouse.
• Organizes and cleans the front end daily and keeps it clutter-free.
• Sorts and tags the pharmacy’s order daily.
• Orders prescription medication with the oversight of the pharmacist.
• Prepares accounts payable, documents and forwards to accounting
• Maintains adequate stock of medications and supplies.
• Participates in the quality improvement.
• Demonstrates System Values in performance and behavior.
• Complies with System policies and procedures.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervisory Responsibilities
No supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Education/Experience
No educational requirement and 6 months to 1 year relevant experience

• Upon hire

• Two to three years pharmacy technician experience.