Pharmacy Technician

Description

Position Close Date: 2/3/25

PUYALLUP TRIBAL HEALTH AUTHORITY, located in Tacoma Washington, is seeking a full time Pharmacy Technician with a minimum of two (2) years’ experience.

“It is the mission of the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority to provide quality healthcare and promote wellness in a culturally appropriate manner.”

Position Close Date: Open Until Filled

We offer an outstanding workplace, competitive market based salary, and benefits packages including:

• Monday – Friday schedule
• Medical/Dental/Vision benefits – monthly premiums paid 100% for employees
• 19+ annual paid holidays
• Generous paid sick and vacation accruals
• 401(k) with annual profit sharing
• Life & AD&D insurance coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Excellent work/home life balance

GENERAL FUNCTION: Assists pharmacists with dispensing functions and processes refill requests. Triage patients at pharmacy window and helps with prep work to process prescriptions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Know and continually review medication brand and generic names, medical terminology, pharmaceutical calculations, and be able to type accurately at least 35 words per minute.
• Rotate through all work areas of the pharmacy weekly.
• Obtain, review, update, and print (if requested) patient eligibility, insurance information, and health information on the pharmacy patient profile daily.
• Issue prescriptions refills after verifying patient and record patient signature for such transactions daily.
• Process in-person and phone requests for prescription refills, determine if requests require approval, retrieve patient record if needed, collate and/or route requests electronically, in writing, or by facsimile to the Medical Provider or authorizing entity daily.
• Triage in-person, written, or phone requests for drug information or health advice to a registered pharmacist or to an appropriate entity within the health organization daily.
• Retrieve and process new or refill prescription orders electronically, by facsimile, telephone, or brought in-person which includes but is not limited to typing, counting and pouring, labeling, mixing, and collating in preparation for final check by a registered pharmacist daily.
• Trouble shoot prescription third party claim rejections by understanding formulary restrictions, plan limitations, drug utilization review override codes, relationship codes; requesting and completing prior authorization forms; and/or communicating with plan help desk representatives and prescribing entity daily.
• Inspect pharmaceutical stock and supplies for re-ordering, outdates, or deterioration daily.
• Document on log sheets pharmaceutical stock issued to floor stock, return to manufacturer, or items mark to be destroyed at least weekly.
• Compare received pharmaceutical stock and supplies with invoices, sign, date, and forward invoices to Technician Supervisor for review before submission to Accounting daily.
• Attend monthly Pharmacy and Technician meeting and provide relevant feedback to workflow issues.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited pharmacy technician program.
• Two or more years’ experience as a Pharmacy Technician, with most recent 12 months working in a retail pharmacy preferred.
• Proficient with 3rd party billing and dosage calculations.
• Ability to work in fast paced pharmacy filling from 800- 1200 prescriptions per day.
• Current WA State Pharmacy Technician Certification required.
• Experience and / or ability to work with electronic health record systems.