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City/State: Saint Louis, Missouri

Categories: Pharmacy

Shift: Days

Job Status: Full-Time

Req ID: 90945

Pay Range: $20.00 – $25.56 / hour (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

BJC HealthCare System is hiring a **Full-Time Retail Pharmacy Tech I** for our **Home Care Infusion Pharmacy (710 S Boyle Ave., St. Louis, MO).**

Position Details:

+ **Day Shift: Monday – Friday with a Rotating schedule between opening (8am-4:30pm) and closing (8:30am-5pm) shifts**

+ **NO weekends or holidays!!!**

+ **In-office position (not remote)** - Supporting pharmacy department operations in a cubicle-based onsite setting

+ Support patient care through processing medication orders, insurance claims,

+ Excellent communication skills — supporting patients via phone, email, and MyChart to set up refill deliveries of medications.

+ Experience processing insurance claims and verifying patient eligibility

+ Ability to maintain patient files and perform administrative tasks

+ Strong attention to detail and accuracy

Job Responsibilities:

+ Processing medication orders and refills (note: will not be actively assembling medications)

+ Communicating with patients - Answering patient questions and providing medication information

+ Processing insurance

+ Collaborating with team members to ensure smooth pharmacy workflow

_Requirements:_

+ High school diploma or equivalent

+ **Missouri Pharmacy Technician License (required** ): The license can be obtained quickly—simply submit your application now and expect approval within 3-4 weeks. Submit an application to the Missouri Board of Pharmacy (note: this is a license, not a certification).

+ Must undergo a criminal background check

_Experience:_

+ 6 months - 1 year or more of Retail pharmacy experience (preferred)

+ Pharmacy customer service, pharmacy administrative support, and pharmacy support roles ( _such as Pharmacy Administrative Assistant or Pharmacy Service Coordinator_ )

Why Join Us?

+ Work with a highly skilled, compassionate, supportive, and caring team

+ Growth Opportunities to learn new skills and advance (cross-train)

+ Generous Benefits Package with PTO and Tuition Assistance beginning on day 1

+ Several Retirement Options including a 401K plan and either a Pension Plan or a 403 (b)

Next Steps:

+ If selected to move forward with Interview Process, a Talent Advisor will contact you via email for a screen

Overview

**BJC Home Care** offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.

BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.

The Home Infusion Therapy Department of BJC Home Care Services works closely with physicians, patients and caregivers to enable patients to remain or return home while receiving intravenous medications. Our services include 24 hour on-call pharmacy and nursing services, comprehensive patient education materials, patient assessment and drug administration monitoring, and coordination of professional services including home care nursing and laboratory services.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

The Pharmacy Technician - Retail 1, under the direct supervision of a staff pharmacist and according to standard procedures, performs general clerical and support duties for the department. This position is also responsible for entering information into the pharmacy IT system, selling prescriptions, managing inventory and completing prescription workflow steps.

Responsibilities

+ Completes clerical duties, to include sending and receiving tubes & faxes, filing prescriptions, processing mail & courier prescriptions.

+ Enters customer, insurance and prescription information and completes prescription transfers.

+ Sells prescriptions (POS system), handles cash, manages payment exceptions and reconciles cash.

+ Orders and manages inventory (drug and non-drug); stocks shelves; rotates, organizes, and removes expired product; performs cycle counts and returns to stock.

+ Completes data entry, contact manager, product dispensing (manual and automated via Parata and RxSafe), and basic compounding.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ High School Diploma or GED

Experience

+ No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

+ State Bd Pharm Registration

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Pension Plan*/403(b) Plan funded by BJC

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to www.bjctotalrewards.com/Benefits (https://www.bjctotalrewards.org/Benefits)

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer