About the Role
Pharmacy Interns will function as support to the mission of taking care of patients and clients. The Pharmacy Intern works in coordination with pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, member advocates, and any other key members to encourage coordination of care for members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Data entry processing for new enrollees, including complete medication histories.
Ensure seamless engagement throughout system.
Provide support for clinical programs, including establishing relationships with patients and other health care providers. Experience and confidence communicating with other health-care providers such as physicians and nurses is vital.
Provide direct patient care and care coordination for Tria patients.
Make outbound telephone calls with patients and other healthcare practitioners.
Manage data for patients, including laboratory data, appointments, and medications.
Function as support and as a resource for other team members when necessary.
Qualifications
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Direct patient care experience, face to face or telephonic, is highly desired.
Basic medication knowledge, including common medication dosing and medication use is required.
Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Write routine reports and correspondence.
Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Excel), Database software, E-mail, and Internet.
Education/Experience
Actively enrolled in pharmacy school.
Current pharmacy intern license in the states of Kansas and Missouri is required for initial employment.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to stand, bend, kneel, sit, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Individual must occasionally lift and/or move up to 5 pounds.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copiers, filing cabinets, and printers are utilized. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
Location: Currently located in Overland Park, KS but moving to Kansas City, MO (Crossroads area) later in 2023. Remote work is available after training is complete.
Schedule: Work a total of 10-15 hours per week predominately in the evenings (5-9 pm) and some Saturdays (daytime). Schedule flexibility is available.
*This job description should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements and may be changed at any time.