Patient Engagement Specialist-Onsite (Pharmacy Technician)

Patient Engagement Specialist
Location:  Spartanburg, SC

Job Description: 

The Patient Engagement Specialist will be responsible for providing service for inbound pharmacy phone calls and/or placing outbound patient refill calls and assisting the patient through the entire refill process.  This role will be responsible for some or all of the below types of activities:  responding to patient requests and inquiries regarding prescription drug plan coverage and fulfillment through the pharmacy;  inbound calls to support the health systems needs in patient; status checks on prescriptions; assists pharmacies to properly adjudicate electronic prescription drug claims and resolve adjudication error messages; responsible for providing knowledgeable and courteous customer assistance and response to members, providers, and pharmacy team member inquiries; serves as a point of contact between patients, pharmacy, liaisons, clinical providers, and various internal functional areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively coordinate medication refills including data entry and pharmacy claim adjudication
• Make outbound patient refill phone calls and complete the patient refill request.
• Answer, resolve and triage inbound inquiries.
• Clarify prescription orders with pharmacist and/or clinician as appropriate.
• Identify medications requiring special storage and/or handling such as hazardous medications and/or refrigerated medication.
• Manage, organize, and update relevant data using database applications.
• Apply observations and recommendations to operational issues, increased productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.
• Identify trends, resolves problems; recommend improvements; implement change.
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives.
• Act as a value-added business partner to stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Protect organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Update knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining networks; participating in professional organizations
• Flexible scheduling to meet business needs with health system partners starting as early as 7:45 AM (EST)/ 8am EST
• Other duties and/or responsibilities may apply

Experience/Requirements:

Required Licensure/Certification:  We are seeking experienced pharmacy technicians who are state registered as a pharmacy technician. Nationally certified as a CPhT or equivalent is strongly preferred but not required. Should additional licensure need to be obtained, the applicant will commit to obtaining the required licensure within a mutually agreed upon timeframe. Continued employment is contingent upon meeting these requirements.

*If the candidate's state of residence does not have a state registration available, then the National certification is required at time of hire. Should additional licensure need to be obtained, the applicant will commit to obtaining the required licensure within a mutually agreed upon timeframe. Continued employment is contingent upon meeting these requirements. 

 

Experience and Education Requirements:

• 1-3 years of Pharmacy Technician and adjudicating claims
• experience strongly preferred but not required - managing refills, specialty pharmacy, working with clinical care teams, and working remotely

Education: High school diploma or GED required

Skills:  Strong interpersonal communication skills, exceptional phone skills, comfortable with proactively engaging patients telephonically, comfortable reaching out to on-site clinicians, payors, and pharmacies telephonically, highly proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel and Word; able to quickly learn other programs, adapt to Shields’ unique model / tools and able to extract relevant information; strong organizational skills a must

Traits: Organized, high-integrity, high accountability, attention to detail, dependable, quality focus, empathetic, good listener/communicator, collaborative, consistently arrives to work on-time with minimal unscheduled time off

Other:  Energetic, highly motivated, team player with strong personal and communication skills, ability to sit and/or stand with focus at a workstation for a long period of time; discretion and confidentiality essential as position deals with highly sensitive and private data

 

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Last updated on Aug 16, 2024