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Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare. A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care.

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group’s family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Cross-functional Pharmacy Technician & Medication Coordinator position at Genoa is an essential role that impacts the lives of an underserved population that needs a voice. This onsite position will work as a pharmacy technician in our Genoa mental health specialty pharmacy and as a liaison between a variety partner clinics.

You will support all functions of the Genoa mental health and specialty pharmacy by providing onsite support in the partner clinic as a liaison between the clinic and a Genoa pharmacy, coordinating prescription services, dispensing medical prescriptions, and performing necessary clerical duties, splitting time between the clinic office and the pharmacy. 

Tour a Genoa Pharmacy at the following link:  Genoa Healthcare On-site Pharmacy Tour (youtube.com)

This position will work in our Genoa Pharmacy on Wednesday and Thursday with a half day on Tuesday. Position will work at our clinic on Monday and Friday with a half day on Tuesday. 

Clinic Location: Woodhaven Behavioral Hospital of Dayton, 1 Elizabeth Place, Dayton, OH

Pharmacy Location: South Community Behavioral Healthcare, 3095 Kettering Blvd. , Dayton, OH

Hours:  Monday-Friday: 8:30am-5pm Closed for Lunch: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 12:30pm-1pm, Closed for Lunch: Wednesday: 12pm-1pm

Primary Responsibilities:

• Communicates with all consumers of the mental health center regarding the medication services Genoa provides
• Recruits and enrolls consumers utilizing enrollment forms and copy the consumer’s insurance card
• Facilitates the collection of prescriptions to be faxed to the pharmacy for dispensing
• Ensures all consumer insurance information is up to date in the Pharmacy system and is properly charged for the medications dispensed
• Assists consumers in contacting the pharmacist regarding all their medication questions and ensure a prompt response to their questions
• Assists clinic staff and pharmacy with prior authorizations and Patient Assistance programs as needed
• Monitors compliance by contacting the consumer at least monthly to ensure compliance and determine refill needs as applicable
• Prescription refill management by utilizing the no refill report and contacting the appropriate prescriber to ensure timely refills are completed and dispensed to the consumer
• Medication delivery when needed and appropriate. (Only applicable in states that are allowed)
• Checks for expiration dates (both on consumer’s medications as well as house account products/standing order meds)
• Ensures that medications are stored properly (refrigerated drugs are kept in the refrigerator, pen-tips are not stored on insulin pens, etc.)
• Checks for discrepancies (dose changes, discontinued medications, etc.)
• All areas of the job description are subject to state regulations and allowances. (CMC will receive a state specific document that shares state specific regulations and allowances)

Primary Pharmacy Site Responsibilities: 

• Provides exceptional customer service to all consumers and members of the clinic staff 
• Fills prescription orders and makes them available for verification under direct supervision of the registered pharmacist 
• Orders, receives and stores incoming pharmacy supplies 
• Receives and processes wholesaler medication orders 
• Verifies medication stock and enters data in computer to maintain inventory records 
• Works with the Pharmacist to asset in the pharmacy functions and keeping the pharmacy in compliance with all federal and state requirements 
• Performs various clerical duties relating to the department 
• Communicates with solid professional verbal and written communication skills 
• Other duties as assigned 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• National Pharmacy Technician Certification  
• Pharmacy Technician Licensed in the state of Ohio
• Valid Driver’s license and insurance
• Access to reliable transportation 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of clinic experience or pharmacy technician experience
• Prior Authorization experience
• Experience in a behavioral or mental health setting
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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