Pharmacy Technician and Liaison - Optum

$3,000 Sign-on Bonus for External Candidates

Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare.  A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care. 

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group’s family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

We seek a Pharmacy Technician for a hybrid role to impact the lives of an underserved population that needs a voice. This hybrid position supports all functions of the Genoa mental health and specialty pharmacy by providing onsite support in the partner clinic as a liaison between the clinic and a Genoa pharmacy, coordinating prescription services, dispensing medical prescriptions and performing necessary clerical duties, splitting time between the clinic office and the pharmacy.  

Tour a Genoa Pharmacy at the following link:  Genoa Healthcare On-site Pharmacy Tour (youtube.com)

Clinic Location:This position is located at  Pembroke Hospital, 199 Oak St., Pembroke, MA (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and South Shore Mental Health 460 Quincy Ave. Room 236, Quincy, MA.  (Tuesday and Thursday) You will split your time being a coordinator at the hospital and a technician in Quincy.

Hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30-5:00 (closed for lunch from 12:30-1:00)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Primary Hospital Site Responsibilities: 
  • Works in a hospital setting and builds strong relationship with patients, hospital staff, pharmacy team as well as other clients and stakeholders aligned with the business group
  • Participates in daily/weekly/monthly team meetings and acts on feedback to ensure quality care on-site
  • Educates potential patients about services provided at time of discharge and articulates how patients may utilize pharmacy services to obtain full benefits of the high-quality prescriptive care
  • Attends and contributed to daily medical team meetings and coordinates the collection of prescriptions, patient orders and all necessary paperwork for the pharmacy team in order to handle dispensing of patient medications
  • Schedules and coordinates pharmacist consultation review of patient’s prescribed medications to drive medication adherence and education
  • Handles the coordination of patient medication delivery at time of discharge and ensures education has been provided to all necessary caregivers
  • Identifies and resolves insurance billing adjudication; including facilitating prior authorizations (PAs), and assisting in locating financial assistance for patients as needed
  • Conducts weekly follow up calls with hospital patients post following discharge to ensure aftercare plans have been met
  • Identifies trends, barriers and potential process improvement opportunities and subsequently
  • recommends customized and innovative solutions; as well as proposing value-driven change when necessary
  • All areas of the job description are subject to state regulations and allowances. (Liaisons will be provided and trained on all state specific regulations and allowances)
• Primary Pharmacy Site Responsibilities: 
  • Provides exceptional customer service to all consumers and members of the clinic staff 
  • Fills prescription orders and makes them available for verification under direct supervision of the registered pharmacist 
  • Orders, receives and stores incoming pharmacy supplies 
  • Receives and processes wholesaler medication orders 
  • Verifies medication stock and enters data in computer to maintain inventory records 
  • Works with the Pharmacist to asset in the pharmacy functions and keeping the pharmacy in compliance with all federal and state requirements 
  • Performs various clerical duties relating to the department 
  • Communicates with strong professional verbal and written communication skills 
  • Other duties as assigned 
  • May be required to make deliveries within a 10-mile radius (will be using your own vehicle and will be reimbursed for mileage) 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma/GED or higher 
• National Pharmacy Technician Certification  
• Active and unrestricted Pharmacy Technician Licensed or Certified Pharmacy Technician in the state of Massachusetts
• 2+ years of hospital experience or pharmacy technician experience
• Valid Driver’s license and insurance
• Access to reliable transportation 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a behavioral or mental health setting
• Bilingual (Spanish) speaking
• Proven highly proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word
• Proven solid verbal and written communication skills 
• Proven ability to work with a close-knit team and possess solid administrative and organizational skills 
• Proven ability to learn other software systems 
• Demonstrated ability to be detail oriented, professional, results oriented with a positive outlook and patient focus

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At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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