Pharmacy Service Clerk jobs in Minneapolis, MN

A Pharmacy Clerk/Technician is responsible for carrying out duties that assist licensed pharmacists manage a pharmacy. This involves carrying out basic pharmacy tasks such as greeting customers, answering the phone and managing inventory and supplies

Qualifications:

Skills

• Customer service: professionally answer phone calls, greet and assist customers
• Professional communication skills
• Knows or begins to learn top 200 brands of drugs and their generic equivalents and therapeutic classes of drugs
• Knows or begins to develop knowledge about billing third parties

Preferred Education/ Experience

• High School Diploma
• 1 year of experience or training as a technician or experience in a pharmacy setting

Responsibilities:

General Responsibilities(Include the following [Other duties may be assigned.]):

• Input patient data and medication orders accurately into the pharmacy’s computer system with assistance
• Count, label, and bag prescription drugs and supplies in compliance with local, state, federal, and company regulations
• Generate third-party billing and resolve basic third-party problems with assistance
• Manage inventory: Learn how to generate and receive drug, OTC and supply orders, stocks shelves, and remove out-of-date items from the inventory
• Conform to all HIPAA standards
• Store maintenance: file paperwork, clean store, keep professional presentation
• Work as part of a team to provide all Patient Care Services: immunizations, blister packing, med boxes, prescription delivery
• Maintains workflow
• Pharmacy opening and closing procedures
• Screens telephone calls for the pharmacist
• Communicates with prescribers and their agents to obtain refill authorizations

Attributes:

• Motivated
• Detail-oriented
• Excellent people skills
• Team player
• Technical skills
• CPhT and WPQC certifications not required

Work Environment:

Provided

• Computer
• Patient care software program
• Basic office supplies
• Telephone
• Friendly and informational environment

Expected

• To maintain and actively practice proper business ethics and follow pharmacy laws
• Abide by all Hometown Pharmacy Employee Standards of Conduct
• Complete training and continuing education provided by Hometown Pharmacies

Physical Demands

• Standing to process prescriptions
• Walking around to fill prescriptions and to manage inventory
• Occasionally lifting totes of product and to maintain the work area

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $11.00 - $16.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person