Submitted by: Justin Collins
| Part-time = 0 to 24 hrs. No Weekends No Holidays Flexible hours Working hours 8:30 to 4:30 Monday to Friday PHARMACY TECHNICIAN: STUDENT Rural Health Corporation of NEPA is looking for Pharmacy students for the summer interested in a part-time position at our Noxen Health Center – 340B pharmacy located in Noxen, PA. This person would be responsible for helping the Pharmacists perform daily tasks to serve customers. Their primary job responsibilities are Customer Service, Administrative duties, and Prescription Fulfillment. These duties include filling and labeling prescriptions, ordering supplies and inventory, data entry, interacting with customers to answer questions or give them their prescriptions and contacting customers to notify them when their prescription is ready. Education: A Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy student candidate must have some sort of experience, depending on your specific facility and geographical location. Preferred education is through the successful completion of a Pharmacy Technician program, Certified Pharmacy Technician, and Pharmacy students enrolled in a Pharmacy program. Pharmacy Technician duties and responsibilities: Pharmacy Technicians are responsible for ensuring the availability of medication and delivering medications to the right patients and departments. Supporting pharmacological services by assembling, stocking and distributing medications. Maintaining records by recording and filing the prescriptions and orders of Physicians Sorting, stocking and labeling medications and monitoring inventory Responding to the requests of patients and healthcare providers, answering their questions and referring various inquiries to the Pharmacist Complying with rules, regulations and procedures to help maintain a clean and safe pharmacy, such as by sterilizing equipment and surfaces Processing prescriptions electronically and ensuring all information is accurate and complete Generating revenues by recording, calculating and issuing charges Undertaking administrative tasks such as record-keeping as assigned by a Physician or facility manager from time to time They work closely with Pharmacists to prepare prescriptions and help customers. Their job is to receive stock orders from pharmaceutical companies and review order requests from Physicians to determine new prescriptions or changes to existing customer prescriptions. Skills and qualifications: A Pharmacy Technician should possess numerous skills to complete their duties effectively, such as: Supply and inventory management skills Attention to detail and analytical skills Ability to create a safe and productive environment Exemplary customer service skills Excellent organizational and time management skills PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Walking, sitting, and standing for up to eight hours per day. Continuously fingering, frequent handling, grasping and twisting, frequently lifting and carrying up to 35 pounds. Periodically, extended walking. Frequently stooping and bending. Repetitively looking up, occasionally crouching. Continuously reaching above shoulder level. Frequent neck bending. Hearing as it relates to normal conversation, high and low frequency. Seeing as it relates to general vision, near vision, far vision, color vision and peripheral vision. “For more information, please reach out to Amy Martinez at amy.martinez@wilkes.edu“ |