Pharmacy Tech II Specialty - Paragon Healthcare at Elevance Health in Plano, Texas
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Job Description:
Pharmacy Technician II - Specialty
A proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, Paragon Healthcare brings over 20 years in providing life-saving and life-giving infusible and injectable drug therapies through our specialty pharmacies, our infusion centers, and the home setting.
Location: This position is onsite at our specialty pharmacy at 3033 W. President George Bush Hwy., Plano, TX 75071
The Pharmacy Technician II - Specialty is responsible for assisting pharmacists in the performance moderately moderate complex technical and clerical duties involved in the daily operations of the Pharmacy, as allowed by law and/or regulation.
How you will make an impact:
Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Assists the pharmacist with dispensing items a physician orders to a valid prescription adhering to the appropriate guidelines and policies.
- Check for expired / unusable products and disposes of them properly.
- Answers and initiates communications related to providing pharmaceutical care.
- Prepares delivery tickets.
- Assists the patient delivery representative in orders, receiving, maintaining, and tracking all infusion-related equipment.
- Fulfills the duties of the patient delivery representative when required.
- Follows a process to minimize mis-fills, product waste, and HIPAA violations.
- Checks and maintains inventory levels; places inventory orders, logs in new inventories.
- Documents all activities appropriately.
- Completes drug expiration review monthly.
- Assists with any inventory-related questions from team members daily and during quarterly inventory.
- Dispenses to patients and completes assessments.
- Dispenses for active patients by established cut-off times.
- May be responsible for overnight deliveries.
- Able to troubleshoot pump issues without assistance from team members or supervisors.
- Follows correct process to minimize mis-fills, unscheduled deliveries, waste of product, and HIPAA violations.
- Documents QARs/indicators appropriately in the portal without prompts.
- Strives to achieve cost effectiveness in all areas (including purchasing, inventory control, staffing delivery services).
- Maximizes the efficiency and productivity of the pharmacy and delivery operations.
Minimum Requirements:
- Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Requires a minimum 2 years experience as pharmacy technician with training/experience in alternate site/home health pharmacy practice and the preparation of sterile products.
- Requires a current, active, valid and unrestricted Certified Pharmacy Technician certificate and/or license.
- Continuing education necessary to maintain current licensure in all states licensed.
- Maintain a current pharmacy technician certificate where required by law and/or regulation.
- Multi-state certification is required if this individual is providing services in multiple states.
- For Paragon and Carelon Health business unit, satisfactory completion of a Tuberculosis test is a requirement for this position.
Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:
- Prior experience with a specialty pharmacy preferred.
