[Hiring] Pharmacy Technician Coordinator @SSM Health

Role Description

Under the direct supervision of a pharmacist and in accordance with standard procedures, provides coordination and leadership for workflows and process improvement within a specialized operational area that spans multiple ministries. At least 80% of time is dedicated to this focused role, which may include areas such as:

• Community operations
• Technology and automation
• Regulatory compliance
• Finance
• Medication access and adherence
• Transitions of care
• Purchasing

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs daily services and functions of the specialized role at multiple ministries or in a centralized service model.
• Interacts in a matrix manner that includes learning multiple workflows for various sites, travel, managing matrix relationships, and collaborating across team members and ministries to prioritize and efficiently complete work.
• Solves issues in the specialized area as they arise.
• Ensures documents and records are accurate and completed in a timely manner.
• Serves as a resource in the specialized area for other regional, system, and/or external stakeholders.
• Solves complex problems that may impact more than one ministry and ensures that issues are escalated and closed as needed.
• Complies with legal, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
• Keeps current with changes in the specialized field and collaborates with department leadership to adopt best practices.
• Coaches team members across multiple ministries when practice standards are not upheld.
• Conducts reviews and audits of specialized area.
• Reports and monitors KPIs to ensure optimal performance.
• Identifies quality improvement opportunities based on specialized skill set to ensure safe, effective, and efficient services and patient care.
• Creates system standardization and leads implementation of operational changes and advancements.
• Participates in regional or system specialized work teams, committees, and councils.
• Collaborates with regional or system leaders to develop and coordinate team member education, training, orientation, and competency.
• Trains other team members in specialized area.
• Prepares and distributes work schedules and provides cross-coverage for specialty area, as assigned.
• Serves as the multi-ministry or regional liaison to regional or system pharmacy teams in specialty area.
• Collaborates with leadership to communicate changes in specialty area.
• Provides excellent customer service to patients, other staff and ancillary departments and maintains high standards of confidentiality in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
• Three years’ experience as a pharmacy technician or relevant healthcare field

Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
• Flexible Payment Options: voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay for eligible hourly team members.
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.