Pharmacy Technician I

Job Duties

• Preparing and dispensing medications: pharmacy technicians locate measure, pack and label medications for patients.
• Aiding with administrative tasks: Pharmacy technicians assist the pharmacist with tasks such as processing insurance claims, assist with weekly/monthly reporting, tracking inventory, filing paperwork and prescriptions, entering prescriptions into software system, enter/update patient information, accurately prepare and label medications, maintaining adequate supplies to perform your job, etc.
• Providing customer service: answer phone calls, assist patients with medication pricing and ordering
• Quality assurance: accurately filing prescriptions, maintaining pharmacy dispensing machines, processing drug orders and reconstituting medications, maintain daily refrigerator logs, etc.
• Cleaning and organizing: Replenishes, cleans, and maintains automated dispensing machines. Enters this information into the log books in accordance with manufacturer protocols and state/federal pharmacy statutes and regulations. Prepares pharmacy equipment at the end of the day for the next business day. (Stocks printers and fax machines with paper and labels, restocks vials and lids, cleans workstations and equipment, etc.)
• Inventory Control: Checks inventory for outdated product, according to protocol. Assists with inventory management promptly. (ex: Forwards dating, returning medication to stock, pulling outdated medication, verifying recalled medications, etc.)