Job Description
Summary:
The pharmacy delivery driver is responsible for picking up prescriptions each day at Grace Pharmacies and delivering them to patients or other sites.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Pick up prescriptions at Grace Health pharmacies.
- Deliver prescriptions promptly, efficiently, and accurately to the intended recipients.
- Communicates and resolves prescription delivery issues with pharmacy staff and patients.
- Maintains security and integrity of medication and devices throughout delivery process.
- Understands and communicates basic pharmacy language with insurance and prescription issues.
- Has patient sign acknowledgement of delivery.
- Ensures the vehicle is maintained in a safe and proper working condition.
- Perform data collection as required.
- Maintains security of monies collected from patients and delivers to the pharmacy.
- Upholds safety in high regard.
- Represents the company image in a positive manner.
- Will work as a back-up for pharmacy technician positions if available and needed. See pharmacy tech job description.
OTHER ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Grace Health recognizes that managing patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and non-clinical staff. All employees must embrace a team-based approach to patient care and understand that each role is important to our success.
- Team members must demonstrate excellent team communication and coordination to provide quality patient care.
- Care coordination includes communicating with community organizations, health plans, facilities, and specialists.
- Care team members understand and embrace the concept of population management and proactively address the needs of patients and families served by this practice.
- Team members must demonstrate skill and knowledge related to effective communication with vulnerable patient populations.
- Team members must participate in Continuous Quality Improvement activities within the organization to ensure patients receive high-quality care.
- All team members will be involved in the process of improving quality income.
- Team members will participate in the review and evaluation processes of practice performance and help to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Team members will participate in Grace Health's advocacy program.
GENERAL DUTIES:
The pharmacy delivery driver is responsible for picking up prescriptions each day at Grace Health Pharmacies and delivering them to patients or other sites.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to assist in advancing Grace Health’s mission and perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
SKILLS:
Must relate to patients and staff in an understanding and courteous manner. Ability to work unsupervised, handle money, and maintain required paperwork. May sit in vehicles for long periods of time. Required to climb stairs and must occasionally lift to 25 pounds.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Graduation from high school or GED.
Possess a valid Kentucky driver's license and driving record free of violations and accidents with a minimum of 3 years of driving experience.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee occasionally is required to reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Grace Health is a faith-based, federally qualified community health center (FQHC). We provide primary health services to underserved, underinsured, and uninsured individuals in the southeastern Kentucky region. Our mission is “to show the love and share the truth of Jesus Christ to southeastern Kentucky, through access to compassionate, high quality, primary health care for the whole person.” The work environment characteristics described here represent those employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Grace Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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