Patient Care Technician
Mt Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
Job Description
Step into the front lines of healthcare support as a Patient Care Technician where compassion meets precision. In this dynamic role, you'll be the trusted voice for patients, providers, and healthcare partners-helping them navigate prescriptions with confidence and care.
Whether you're answering questions, solving problems, or coordinating with pharmacists, you'll play a vital role in delivering life-enhancing medication services. This is your chance to build a career that blends customer service, healthcare operations, and regulatory knowledge-all in a supportive, fast-paced environment.
This is a Full-Time, On-site role.
What You'll Do
Requirements
Required:
Preferred:
Whether you're answering questions, solving problems, or coordinating with pharmacists, you'll play a vital role in delivering life-enhancing medication services. This is your chance to build a career that blends customer service, healthcare operations, and regulatory knowledge-all in a supportive, fast-paced environment.
This is a Full-Time, On-site role.
What You'll Do
- Be the First Point of Contact: Answer and triage incoming calls from patients, prescribers, and clinics with empathy and accuracy.
- Process & Verify Orders: Collect key details like drug, dose, allergies, and special instructions to ensure safe, timely prescriptions.
- Set Clear Expectations: Provide ready-by/ship-by estimates based on production timelines.
- Resolve or Route Inquiries: Address non-clinical questions (status, payments, logistics), and escalate clinical matters to pharmacists.
- Manage Refills & Renewals: Coordinate with providers and ensure prescription accuracy and completeness.
- Process Payments: Securely manage credit card entries and communicate cost expectations.
- Coordinate Pickup or Delivery: Arrange shipping (including cold-chain), and confirm patient roles in the process.
- Communicate Delays Proactively: Notify patients of backorders, holds, or exceptions before they escalate.
- Protect Privacy & Accuracy: Document every interaction per HIPAA and SOP standards-protecting patient information at every step.
- Meet Performance Goals: Deliver excellent service while meeting call center KPIs like average handle time and first-call resolution.
- Role Rotation: Additionally, this role will regularly rotate across various pharmacy functions, including dispensing, shipping, and front-end customer engagement.
Requirements
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Active and current Pharmacy Technician registration in South Carolina.
- At least 1 year of pharmacy technician or high-volume call center/customer service experience.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to multitask, problem-solve, and remain calm in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with pharmacy software, Slack, and multiline phone systems.
Preferred:
- National Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT).
- Prior experience in a healthcare call center or mail-order pharmacy setting.
- Bilingual skills (e.g., English/Spanish).
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