Pharmacy Technician

1 week ago


Mississauga, Canada Trillium Health Partners Full time

**Job Description**:
**Position**:Pharmacy Technician - Medication Reimbursement & Pharmacentre

**Dept/Health System**:Pharmacy Services

**File #**:2024-37736

**Role Level**: (AH05.11) - $31.37 to $36.16

**Status**:Permanent Full Time x2

**Hours Of Work/Shifts**: 8am - 4pm, 9am-5pm, or 10am-6pm Monday to Friday

**Site**:Credit Valley Hospital and Queensway Health Centre

**Posted**:May 29, 2024

**Internal Deadline**:June 5, 2024

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber. Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Our Mission**:A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community**

Our Values**:Compassion, Excellence, Courage**

Our Goals**:Quality, Access, Sustainability**

Our Enablers**:People, Education, Innovation, Research**

This role will be split approximately 50/50 between pharmacy technician duties in the one of the THP Pharmacentre and the Medication Reimbursement role.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Evaluates, facilitates, and coordinates access to medication assistance for oncology outpatients, and occasionally THP inpatients by request
- Assist and educate patients in exploration of drug funding routes through public and private support and funding options. (e.g., ODB, EAP, SAP, Trillium, Industry sponsored patient assistance programs, compassionate and third party plans)
- Interviews patients/care support partner to complete a needs assessment for financial assistance for medications not covered by ODB or CCO’s new drug funding program
- Ensures patients are aware of all public and private support and funding options available such as Ontario’s Trillium Drug Program (a branch of ODB) and Manufacturer-sponsored PSPs
- Identifies options for drug coverage and assists patients and physicians with the completion of appropriate enrolment and access forms
- Tracks status of special funding requests, coordinates submission of additional information when required and communicates with patients and the rest of the interdisciplinary team when request decisions (approvals or denials) are received
- Determines all possible access for patients by maintaining up-to-date awareness of available reimbursement programs
- Tracks all patient requests for support/funding and impending appeals
- Maintains record of discussions/correspondences with patient’s/care support partner and multi-disciplinary team
- Provides follow-up to physicians, patients/care support partner and involved members of the oncology team (charge nurses, pharmacists, clerks as applicable) to communicate outcomes (approvals, denials, appeals)
- Coordinates with Pharmacy Buyer regarding ordering and receiving of compassionate use drugs
- Participates in the non-funded approval process when no funding sources are available
- Coordinates, on the patient’s behalf, completion of forms/paperwork required to obtain drug access
- Fields EAP requests for information and monitors the status of EAP requests
- Acts as liaison and advocate for the patient with 3rd party payers
- Conducts ongoing follow-up of all form submissions and reimbursement paperwork for each program
- Maintains record of discussions/correspondence with outside stakeholders (e.g. status of request)
- Liaises with Drug Representatives to learn about new PSPs and stay current about existing PSPs (i.e. program changes and closures) and updates the team accordingly.
- Liaises with retail and specialty pharmacies (includes faxing prescriptions)
- Documents ordering and receipt of shipments and tracks inventory of compassionate drugs
- Supports patient specific dispensing in the Outpatient Pharmacies (approximately 50% of role)
- Assists with other duties as required to support the Pharmacy program

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Registered Technician with the Ontario College of Pharmacists
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in an outpatient/community pharmacy setting
- Strong working knowledge of reimbursement terms for provincial and private payers. Including some experience with 3rd party payers and patient assistance/support programs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skilled in following specific instruction with a high degree of accuracy.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, teamwork, problem-solving and organizational skills.
- Able to adapt to change and have excellent time management and the ability to balance competing priorities.
- Ability to work independently using the resources set up within the or to resource on own.
- Self-starter.
- Knowledge of Kroll system preferred
- Knowledge of Cancer Care Ontario New Drug Funding Program guidelines, policies and procedures preferred
- 2 years of re


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