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💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare
At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.
🌟 Benefits That Support You
We invest in you — personally and professionally.
Enjoy:
- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement savings with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility
Job Summary:
The technician, under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist and in accordance with all state and federal laws, assist with the selection, procurement, storage, preparation, record keeping, and financial reconciliation, and dispensing of all medications dispensed. Provide assistance with hospice, third-party claims, offsite facilities (Mubea, Aurora Casket, etc.), and Discharge Medication Delivery Service prescriptions and/or Specialty Pharmacy.They must demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
Job Description:
- Answer phone in timely and courteous manner while complying with HIPPA
- Immediately greet customers in a warm and friendly manner as they enter the pharmacy and assist with their needs
- Solve issues that arise in a timely manner; documenting all relevant information on the patient’s record
- Assures stock is in date by overseeing expiration date checking of assigned area as well as clean/organize pharmacy following the 5 “S’s”. (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain)
- Monitor and track hospice prescriptions assuring proper documentation, accountability and adherence to procedure and state law.
- Assist pharmacist in dispensing of medications in a timely and accurate manner. Understand the intricacies of third-party billing, adjudication and assist the pharmacist or patients is resolving issues in this process.
- Assist with the ordering and delivery process. Understand and can complete orders from wholesaler, including placing order, receiving order, checking in the order, accounting for variance of items ordered and items received, and putting on shelves using “First In, First Out” method and sound accounting principles.
- Understand unique programs offered and assist with prescription filling. These include Discharge Medication Delivery Service, Meds to Beds, Social Service prescriptions and other services such as immunizations.
- Successfully receive, order and dispense offsite business partners’ medication requests. Understand the process used for each business (MD Scripts, Packedge, and or Microsoft Excel Labels.)
- Perform other duties as assigned
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
- High School Graduate or equivalent GED
- State BOP Registration where work is being performed per state regulations
- Proof of taking the CPhT Certification exam within 60 days of hire date. Certified by National Certification Board within 12 months of hire date.
Specialized Knowledge:
- Critical thinking and problem solving.
- Customer service skills and reflect the ICARE attitude.
- Understanding of Metric system.
- Typing and computer knowledge including Microsoft Excel.
FLSA Status:
Non-ExemptRight Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.
Other facts
About St. Elizabeth Healthcare
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is one of the oldest, largest and most respected medical providers in the Greater Cincinnati region. For more than 150 years, St. Elizabeth has been the heart and soul of healthcare in Northern Kentucky. Founded with one small hospital in 1861, St. Elizabeth Healthcare now operates six facilities throughout Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana – St. Elizabeth Covington, St. Elizabeth Edgewood, St. Elizabeth Florence, St. Elizabeth Ft. Thomas, St. Elizabeth Grant and St. Elizabeth Dearborn. St. Elizabeth also has vast resources to serve the Greater Cincinnati area, including almost 1,200 licensed beds; a physician organization, which includes more than 100 primary care and specialty office locations; 1,200 physicians with admitting privileges; nearly 8,500 associates; more than 1,200 volunteers; and three freestanding imaging centers and two ambulatory surgery centers.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve. We accomplish this through state-of the-art technology and nearly 8,500 associates, led by a well-respected board and executive leadership team who love this organization and our community.
What you'll do
- The pharmacy technician assists with medication selection, procurement, and dispensing under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist. They also handle customer interactions, manage inventory, and ensure compliance with regulations.
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