What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Technician position at Seattle Roots Community Health?
PHARMACY TECHNICIAN
Salary: The salary range for this position is $23.00 – $34.34, per hour, payable bi-weekly. Depending on experience, the salary scale is between steps 0 and 19.
Schedule - This is a non-exempt, 40-hour-a-week, union position.
About Us
Seattle Roots Community Health is a not-for-profit organization that operates two primary care clinics, an After-Hours Clinic, two School-Based Health Centers, a low barrier Medication-assisted treatment clinic, and a Dental Clinic. Our Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center was founded in 1970 by the Seattle Black Panther Party in Seattle’s Central District. Our Country Doctor Community Clinic was established in 1971 by residents of the Capitol Hill neighborhood in conjunction with the Seattle Liberation Front. The primary goal of each clinic was to provide low-barrier, high-quality healthcare services and promote social justice.
Seattle Roots is passionate about serving patients of all ethnicities, races, gender identities, languages, and backgrounds and employing individuals who are equally committed to this mission. To ensure our organization best serves these populations, we strive to promote policies that enable us to work effectively in all cross-cultural situations, with patients, coworkers, and the community.
Our Mission and Commitment to Social Justice
We remain committed to health equity and our founding principle of social justice. Every day our actions are guided by our mission: to improve the health of our community by providing high-quality, caring, culturally appropriate primary health care that addresses the needs of people, regardless of their ability to pay. At Carolyn Downs and Country Doctor, health care is a right, not a privilege.
What You’ll Be Doing
High standards of patient care are very important to us at CDCHC. As a Pharmacy Technician working with a licensed pharmacist, you’ll be on the frontline, combining your technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to provide remarkable customer service to patients in our community. You’ll perform essential, highly-detailed pharmacy functions like forwarding prescription requests to the pharmacist, dispensing medication to patients per provider's orders, tracking medication inventory and ordering, and working with our patient indigent care program. Your contributions will help manage our patients’ road to better health in a competent, caring environment.
You’ll need these qualifications
- You have a current Pharmacy Technician license with DOH Washington State
- You’ve completed the Pharmacy Technician Level A certification program.
- You have one (1) year of work experience as a Pharmacy Technician and can show competency in operating the pharmacy computer system
Benefits
We provide a robust suite of benefits, including the choice of three medical plans, two dental plans, long-term disability, life, and other insurance programs. You’ll have access to flexible spending accounts, a subsidy of up to 80% of the cost of an ORCA pass, plus an additional match of 50% of the employee's contribution up to 4% after one year of employment. (Ex. if employee contributes at 4%, Seattle Roots will match with an additional 2%, plus the safe harbor contribution totaling a 9% contribution to the employee's 401k) We’ve got you covered!
Salary : $23 - $34