Pharmacy Technician

Overview

Supporting Community Healthcare is a rewarding role. LifeLong Medical Care is looking for a Pharmacy Technician to work at our TRUST Health Center in Oakland. The Pharmacy Technician works with licensed clinicians and clinic support staff to direct patients to appropriate resources for medications. Assists providers to expedite prescription refills, assists with pharmacy information requests, manages in-clinic dispensing, and is responsible for ordering, receiving, and managing medications for the clinic dispensary.

 

Must be able to obtain valid CA pharmacy technician/pharmacist intern license within 6 months of hiring.

 

This is a full time, 40 hrs/wk, benefit eligible position. 

 

This position is represented by SEIU-UHW. Salaries and benefits are set by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and an employee in this position must remain a member in good standing of SEIU-UHW, as defined in the CBA.

 

LifeLong Medical Care is a multi-site, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with a rich history of providing innovative healthcare and social services to a wonderfully diverse patient community. Our patient-centered health home is a dynamic place to work, practice, and grow. We have over 15 primary care health centers and deliver integrated services including psychosocial, referrals, chronic disease management, dental, health education, home visits, and much, much more. 

 

Benefits

Compensation: $21/hour for non-licensed & $23 - $24.96/hour for licensed. We offer excellent benefits including: medical, dental, vision (including dependent and domestic partner coverage), generous leave benefits including ten paid holidays, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) retirement savings plan.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions - ««««« (Highest time requirements)

 

General

• Provides LifeLong patients with medication resource support, information, and management.
• Helps patients determine the most appropriate sources for their prescription medications and referring patients to appropriate programs and resources— discount pharmacies, Patient Assistance Programs, Dispensary, or Lifelong contract pharmacies.
• Assist providers with prescribing, including formulary expertise and Prior Authorization technical assistance.
• Acts as internal technical expert regarding medication management and purchasing.
• Provides clinic-level 340B compliance and expertise.
• Maintains clinic drug management processes and records in accordance with CA Board of Pharmacy regulations, DEA, and FDA requirements.
• Helps manage clinic medication expenditures.
• Assists with regulatory audits

Manages Refill requests «««««

• Reviews incoming patient meds refill requests and makes recommendations regarding required patient care and refills based on written protocols.
• Refers refill requests to providers or RNs according to protocols.

Medication Access Support: ««««

• Assists Health PAC/FSFS/Medicare and uninsured patients including donut hole and patients whose meds are not covered despite other coverage to access Medication Programs:.
• Works with uninsured patients to determine the most appropriate sources for their prescription medications and referring patients to appropriate programs and resources—Patient Assistance Programs, discount pharmacies, Dispensary, or Lifelong contract pharmacy. This activity is for all patients, insured or uninsured.
• Determines Lifelong Health PAC formulary medications to be dispensed directly to patient from clinic by analyzing provider prescribing patterns
• Verifies eligibility for medication programs and updates/maintaining pharmacy data base with Lifelong contract pharmacies
• Works with providers to ensure adherence to Lifelong Health PAC formulary

Resolves pharmacy eligibility and medication issues: «««

• Assists patients, providers, and nursing staff in researching and resolving non-refill related -pharmacy issues, such as insurance issues, claims processing, adjudication, and formulary coverage.
• Interfaces with community pharmacies

Dispensary Management «««

• Assists Providers with dispensing and RNs with refills
• Keeps appropriate on hand supplies of all medications
  • Ordering and receiving dispensary medications from multiple sources
  • Managing samples
  • Ordering and maintaining Direct Relief and other donated meds
• Tracking all categories of medications—purchased 340B meds, DAP, Samples, D