Pharmacy Technician - Virginia

Waymark is a team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders whose mission is to bring the best healthcare to people with Medicaid benefits.  Guided by the communities we serve, we bring support and technology-enabled care to help primary care providers keep Medicaid patients healthy.  We are building the tools and designing an approach to enable care to reach the patients who can benefit most.  

Our core values embody the essence of what makes Waymark a unique team today, and what we look for, nurture, and sustain as a team. We are bold builders, believing that the greatest challenges in care delivery can be solved when we harness the power of community and technology. We are humble learners, seeking feedback and perspectives different from our own, and welcome challenges to our conclusions. We experiment to improve, actively seeking data to inform decisions and to assess our own performance. We act with focused urgency, our commitment to our mission drives us to tirelessly pursue results.

If this vision resonates with you, we hope you consider bringing your creativity, your energy, your curiosity to Waymark.

About this role

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will provide virtual (primarily telephonic) support for Medicaid patients and their primary care providers. You will partner with Waymark pharmacists and pharmacy technicians as well as retail pharmacies to help patients access medications, address barriers to medication non-adherence, access relevant durable medical equipment (DME), and elevate prescription needs to providers. The role will also provide guidance on alternative medications for common chronic conditions such as asthma, hypertension, and diabetes in collaboration with the pharmacist. You will report to the Waymark Clinical Pharmacist Lead in Virginia.

You will interact with patients through telehealth modalities (SMS, phone, and app-free video) as part of a broader team that includes community health workers who see patients in person and support patients in addressing social determinants of health, therapists who provide mental health counseling, and care coordinators who work closely with primary care providers to support wrap-around services. You should be familiar with pharmacist interventions in primary care that help patients overcome challenges gaining access to, and appropriately taking, their medications.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient medication needs with a multidisciplinary team including community health workers (CHW’s), care coordinators, and therapists.
• Perform telephonic, SMS and written outreach to patients and providers/pharmacies to address medication access issues, medication non-adherence or other drug utilization activities to improve patient and quality outcomes. Outreach also includes addressing medication-related and disease-control HEDIS gaps. 
• Coordinate with external healthcare providers and Waymark care team colleagues to provide accurate and timely information on medications as well as facilitation of medication access, answering, resolving and triaging inbound inquiries in collaboration with your Waymark Clinical Pharmacist Lead.
• Communicate with patients and healthcare providers to assist in completing medication prior authorizations, navigate formulary changes, manage side effects, and identify therapeutic substitutions in conjunction with Waymark and primary care teams.
• Facilitate timely responses to internal Waymark requests for pharmacy team assistance by obtaining and documenting medication information and verifying eligibility, formulary, benefits and allergy information as requested by the Waymark Clinical Pharmacist Lead.
• Provide accurate and timely documentation to ensure productivity and quality metrics are met.
• Actively participate in innovation with an evolving startup environment by identifying trends, resolving problems, recommending improvements, and implementing process improvement changes, applying observations and recommendations to resolve operational issues, increasing productivity and quality, and achieving excellent customer experience.

Minimum qualifications

• Current Virginia State Pharmacy Technician License in good standing.
• PTCB CPhT Certification.
• 2 or more years experience working in outpatient/primary care/clinic-based, managed care or specialty pharmacy setting
• Experience with and commitment to improving healthcare for underserved populations.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a multidisciplinary team setting.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, comfortable with proactively engaging patients telephonically, comfortable reaching out to on-site clinicians, payors, and pharmacies telephonically.
• Detail-oriented, customer service-oriented mindset, motivat