Pharmacy Technician

CVS Health is transforming health care, and Pharmacy Technicians play a critical role in supporting pharmacy teams to deliver operational and service excellence within retail stores. Technicians are often the first point of contact to assist patients and customers, ensuring prescriptions are filled promptly, safely, and accurately while providing caring service.

What You Will Do

Support the pharmacy team by following Standard Operating Procedures at each workstation (production, pick-up, drive-thru, drop-off) for safe prescription fulfillment. Contribute to positive patient experiences by showing empathy, offering immunizations and other services, and solving or escalating patient problems. Complete basic inventory activities such as putting away medication deliveries and conducting cycle counts.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires compliance with state board of pharmacy requirements, including age, education, and licensure/certification. Preferred qualifications include 1-3 years of previous experience as a Pharmacy Technician and experience in pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service settings. The position offers a comprehensive benefits package including dental, vision, wellness resources, and employee discounts.

Requirements

• Must comply with any state board of pharmacy requirements or laws governing the practice of pharmacy, which includes but is not limited to, age, education, and licensure/certification
• If the state board of pharmacy does not address or mandate a minimum age requirement, must be at least 16 years of age
• If the state board of pharmacy does not address or mandate a minimum educational requirement, must have a high school diploma or equivalent, or be actively enrolled in high school or high school equivalency program
• Regular and predictable attendance, including nights and weekends
• Ability to complete required training within designated timeframe
• Attention and Focus: Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time, pivot quickly from one task to another, confirm prescription information and label accuracy
• Customer Service and Team Orientation: Actively look for ways to help people, notice and understand patients’ reactions
• Communication Skills: Use and understand verbal and written communication, utilize active listening
• Mathematical Reasoning: Ability to use math to solve a problem, such as determining total number of tablets to dispense, day’s supply, and/or number of full bottles and additional bottles needed to fill a prescription
• Problem Resolution: Identifying challenging patient or colleague interactions and choosing the best course of action
• Physical Demands: Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods of time, lift/scan/bag items, reach overhead, move fingers repetitively, extend hands and arms, control precision, stoop, close visual acuity, occasionally lift up to 20 lbs, frequently lift up to 10 lbs, consistently lift negligible amount of force, express or exchange ideas by spoken word, receive detailed information through oral communication

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Wellness resources
• Employee discounts
• Access to certain voluntary benefits
• Other programs