Pharmacy Technician

Job Purpose and Summary

We help people navigate the health care system and their personal health care by improving access, lowering costs, and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. Pharmacy Technicians play a critical role in supporting our pharmacy teams to consistently deliver on our brand promise.

Responsibilities

• Follow all company SOPs at each workstation to help our Pharmacists manage and improve patient health
• Support the pharmacy team in fulfilling prescriptions safely, accurately, and promptly
• Show empathy and genuine care by creating heartfelt and personalized moments for patients
• Contribute to positive patient experiences by assisting with immunizations and other services
• Complete basic inventory activities as permitted by law and as directed by pharmacy leadership
• Support additional patient health care services, such as immunizations, point-of-care testing, and offsite clinics
• Comply with relevant laws, regulations, and ethical principles
• Support immunizations by obtaining Technician Immunizer status, educating patients, monitoring adverse reactions, and managing vaccine supplies

Requirements

• Must comply with state board of pharmacy requirements or laws governing the practice of pharmacy
• Must be at least 16 years old or have a high school diploma or equivalent, or be actively enrolled in high school or high school equivalency program
• Must have state-level licensure and national certification requirements, which vary by state
• Must have regular and predictable attendance, including nights and weekends
• Must have attention and focus, including the ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time and pivot quickly from one task to another
• Must have customer service and team orientation, including actively looking for ways to help people and responding appropriately to patients and colleagues
• Must have communication skills, including using and understanding verbal and written communication to interact with patients and colleagues
• Must have mathematical reasoning, including the ability to use math to solve problems such as determining the total number of tablets to dispense
• Must have problem resolution, including identifying challenging patient or colleague interactions and choosing the best course of action
• Must have physical demands, including being mobile and remaining upright for extended periods of time, lifting, scanning, and bagging items, reaching overhead, stretching or reaching out with the body, arms, and/or legs to grasp items, moving fingers repetitively, picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand or arm, extending hand(s) and arm(s) multiple directions to place, move, or lift items, stooping to a considerable degree, requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles to move items between low and high positions, including bending spine at the waist, closing visual acuity to perform activities such as: transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small parts, occasionally lifting up to 20 lbs and/or exerting up to 20 lbs. of force, frequently lifting up to 10 lbs and/or exerting up to 10 lbs. of force, consistently lifting and/or exerting a negligible amount of force to move objects, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately, having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication

Qualifications

• Must have 1-3 years previous experience as a Pharmacy Technician
• Must have previous experience in a pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
• Must be able to work in the home store and across the market in other locations to meet business needs