Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:
Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization
Position Summary
The Pharmacy Technician will provide support services to the pharmacists.
Duties and Responsibilities
As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on
the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances
self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered,
culturally-aware services.
Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an
excellent client experience by:
• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology
As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their
utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• The technician will be able to perform the following functions under immediate supervision of a
pharmacist:
o Receive prescription from patients and obtain necessary information for profile and
insurance billing.
o Enter patient and prescription information into the computer and produce a label for
the prescription.
o Answer the phone and record refill authorization information.
o Call medical office to request refill authorization.
o Answer non -discretionary questions from patients, such as:
Price quote
Product availability
Requests by patients if prescription has been called in and /or filed.
o Take refill requests from patients by phone or in person and product a refill label.
o Place order to suppliers for medications and supplies.
o Check in orders and log invoices.
o Return medication to shelf when pharmacist has finished checking prescription.
o Perform financial transaction at cash register.
o Assist customers with finding OTC products.
o Pre-packing and labeling drugs for subsequent use in prescription dispensing operations.
o Fill prescriptions with medications taken from the shelf stock bottles.
o Count and pour from stock bottles from individual prescriptions. This function is
performed under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist and the accuracy of the
prescription contents is checked and initialed by a licensed pharmacist.
o Reconstitutes-restoration of original form of medication previously altered for
preservation and storage by addition of a specific quantity of distilled water or provided
diluent requiring no calculation. The accuracy of the technician is checked and the work
initialed by a licensed pharmacist.
• The supervising pharmacist will thoroughly instruct the pharmacy technician in the limitation of
the functions he/she may perform.
• The pharmacy technician will wear a nametag, which clearly identifies his/her status working in
the pharmacy and having contact with the general public.
• The pharmacy technician will perform his/bee duties within the limits of function set forth by the
codes or regulations of the…