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Job Details

Cencora is seeking a qualified Retail Pharmacy Technician for an open-door, outpatient Retail Pharmacy servicing primarily patients and employees of Children's Hospital of the Kings Daughters (CHKD), as well as the surrounding community.

Location:

Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters

CHKD Outpatient Pharmacy

601 Children’s Lane

Norfolk, VA 23507

Hours:

The pharmacy is open 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Monday through Friday. Shifts will vary depending on business needs and will include both opening and closing shifts. This position will typically be scheduled for a regular weekend rotation (Saturday & Sunday) from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM every second or third weekend and as such interested candidates should be sure to have that availability. The pharmacy is CLOSED all major holidays.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating a patient profile in the pharmacy information system.

• Enters necessary prescription plan information in the patient profile for processing and adjudicating patient’s prescriptions.

• Responsible for entering all new patient prescription information into the pharmacy information system.

• Addresses insurance, reimbursement, and payment issues as appropriate by communicating with insurance providers, patients and pharmacists.

• Participates in achieving business goals and metrics for the Ambulatory Pharmacy.

• Retrieves and prepares the medication for pharmacist review and verification.

• Prepares inventory reports for pharmacist review to purchase.

• Submits, receives, and places inventory in stock.

• Answers inbound telephone calls and triages calls as appropriate based upon the nature of the call to the appropriate staff.

• Assists with the reviews and handling of all adjudicated prescription claims to ensure appropriateness of reimbursement, co-pay and related financials

• Intervenes with Pharmacy Benefit Manager Companies to resolve plan and patient specific adjudication issues.

• Actively participates by delivering medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients as outlined by the concierge prescription program.

• Compounding nonsterile, oral solutions and suspensions

• Handing and assisting with management of 340B inventory

• Assist with the Front End/OTC area, including stocking/replenishment, regular maintenance, and ringing transactions for customers

• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education:

Normally requires a minimum of two (2) years directly related and progressively responsible ambulatory pharmacy experience; bachelor's degree program preferred. Pharmacy technician certification with a national technical certification organization, such as Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or other comparable national certification required. State pharmacy certification is acceptable if core competencies are equal to or better than national certification requirements.

Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

• Ability to work quickly and accurately under time and volume constraints

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to resolve patient issues quickly and creatively in order to improve customer satisfaction

• Familiarity with pharmaceutical products, services and drug interactions

• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail

• Good analytical skills

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a