Pharmacy Technician - Montrose
Legacy Community Health
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Posted
- Oct 4
- 16 days ago
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About the company
Legacy Community Health
Hospital & health care · 1,001 to 5,000 employees
The largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health has delivered affordable, high-quality care for nearly 40 years across 50+ clinics in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast. Our mission — driving healthy change in our communities — guides everything we do, and it starts with our people.
What you'll do
- Assist the pharmacist in ensuring the appropriateness of medication doses by obtaining and entering patient information as necessary.
- Ensure the patient receives correct medication by using appropriate dispensing procedures.
- Maintain adequate stock of medication and supplies, use safety precautions when stocking, and ensure proper filling techniques are used when preparing medications.
- Re-establish priorities based on workload.
- Ensure insurance adjudication and pre-authorizations are processed in a timely manner.
- Complete and properly document Daily and Monthly Activity checklists, including expired drug checking, cleaning, area inspections, and ordering as assigned.
- Ensure appropriate counseling time is offered to patients and document when refused.
- Communicate with referring physicians’ offices or insurance companies as supported by procedures or requested by pharmacists.
- Perform weekly controlled substance cycle counts and document as appropriate.
- Participate in education of new employees.
- Participate in education and training of pharmacy employees and for organizational needs, ie pharmacy openings, immunizations, World Health Day, National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
- Provide positive customer service by interacting with customers according to the Legacy Community Health Employee Handbook when assisting clients at the cash register.
- Communicate with customers and co-workers with respect and courtesy, avoiding loud and disruptive conversation and/or remarks indicating disrespect.
- Participate in hand-off communication when beginning and leaving your shift.
- Maintain patient confidentiality.
- Notify Pharmacist, Manager, Pharmacy of any problems that go unresolved so that attention to the problem can occur; and understand the urgency of follow up when necessary.
- Disseminate any information (drug shorts, availability, pricing, timely to the pharmacists and peers.
- Track and provide information regarding non-stock requests and recommendations for par adjustments.
- Participate in interim and annual physical inventories.
- Run reporting tools as necessary to support tracking and ensuring medication adherence.
- Support the Manager, Pharmacy Operations in activities necessary to ensure the implementation and changes associated with the 340b program inventory integrity.
- Maintain prescription files according to policy and procedure; complete filing daily.
- Collect cash as appropriate and perform daily procedures for money collections.
- Reconcile prescription fills against billing.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What you need
- Must have high school diploma or equivalent.
- Must have a current Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) certificate
- Must be registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy
- Must be able to pass a math test pertinent to retail pharmacy activities
- Must maintain BLS /CPR
- Must maintain required certifications
- Education: a high school diploma, a bachelor's degree or a professional certificate
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Perks
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Company Holidays
- Flexible Spending Account
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Subsidized Gym Membership
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