Medication Assistance Coordinator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kansas.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with patients, financial advisors, and healthcare professionals to deliver comprehensive financial advocacy.

• Oversee patients’ copay assistance and experiences with free drug programs.

• Seek out medication assistance and discuss application requirements with patients.

• Adhere to enterprise financial clearance and assistance policies and procedures.

• Maintain productivity, quality, and customer service standards.

• Coordinate pharmacy operations for designated areas, ensuring regulatory compliance, automation, medication access, compounding, equipment management, and daily workflows.

• Guarantee compliance with state and federal pharmacy regulations.

• Take part in the orientation, education, and training of pharmacy employees, residents, students, and staff.

• Ensure alignment with pharmacy and health system standards across various locations.

• Utilize advanced computer systems and area-specific technology.

• Identify and implement process enhancements utilizing lean principles and the plan-do-check-act approach.

• Provide coverage for technician staffing shifts as necessary.

• Direct and organize daily departmental operations and pharmacy personnel resources.

• Communicate effectively with patients and internal stakeholders.

• Collaborate with pharmacy leadership to meet departmental objectives.

• Cross-cover team member responsibilities and adjust duties to meet evolving organizational and patient needs.

⛳️ Requirements

• High School diploma or GED equivalent.

• A minimum of 3 years in a similar external environment OR at least 2 years as a pharmacy technician at The University of Kansas Health System.

• Pharmacy Technician Registration - State Board of Pharmacy in Kansas and/or Missouri based on work state upon hire.

• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) from the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) OR an equivalent National Pharmacy Technician Certification.

• Ongoing maintenance of certification and completion of all continuing education requirements.

• Basic keyboarding abilities.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.

• Capability to perform the professional, clinical, and/or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

• Employment is contingent upon participation in the health-system dispute-resolution program.