Where community meets care. Where your work truly matters. At Balls Foods and our Price Chopper stores, we believe pharmacy care is more than prescriptions-it's about people, trust, and showing up for your community every day. We're looking for a dedicated Pharmacy Technician who thrives in a fast-paced retail environment and takes pride in delivering accurate, efficient service while creating a welcoming experience for every patient. Part-Time (Saturday hours needed) Key Responsibilities: • Prescription Processing & Technical Support: Responsible for accurately supporting the preparation and processing of prescriptions, including data entry, medication preparation, labeling, and insurance claim coordination, while ensuring compliance with all pharmacy regulations and safety standards. • Customer Service & Patient Support: Provides exceptional customer service by assisting patients with prescription pick-up, answering non-clinical questions, managing transactions, and ensuring a positive, respectful, and confidential experience for every customer. • Pharmacy Operations & Inventory Coordination: Supports daily pharmacy operations by maintaining inventory, stocking medications, monitoring for outdated products, and ensuring the department remains organized, clean, and fully functional. • Compliance, Communication & Team Collaboration: Works collaboratively with pharmacists and team members to ensure adherence to company policies, Kansas state regulations, HIPAA standards, and safety procedures, while escalating clinical questions appropriately. Essential Job Duties: • Answering telephone and handling questions that do not require a pharmacist's expertise • Receiving written prescriptions or telephoned refill requests • Gathering information to prepare prescriptions (name, DOB, address, phone, allergies, insurance info) • Entering data into the computer for filling prescriptions • Helping pharmacists prepare prescriptions by counting or pouring medications correctly, • labeling containers, and pricing prescriptions • Keeping pharmacy department supplies well stocked and ordered • Placing completed prescriptions in pick-up area • Ordering, receiving, and stocking the shelves with medications when they arrive from suppliers • Preparing insurance claims and verifying payments • Helping patients find OTC medications, but not recommending OTC products • Ringing purchases in cash register and recording prescriptions in electronic signature log • Performing housekeeping duties within the pharmacy (vacuum weekly, empty trash when needed, etc.) • Checking shelves routinely for outdated medications • Processing outdated medications and preparing them for return to supplier • Requesting the pharmacist to counsel the patient when picking up a new prescription • Being courteous and friendly to all customers • Answering only non-judgmental questions and referring the patient to the pharmacist concerning all other question and concerns that require clinical expertise • Making announcements over the PA about any promotions in the pharmacy Other Duties and Responsibilities: • Other duties as assigned Competencies for Success: • Job & Technical Expertise: Demonstrate depth of knowledge and skill in a technical or functional area. • Customer Service & Retention: Demonstrate concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. • Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support. • Teamwork & Collaboration: Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with others to achieve a common goal: Build relationships, share responsibility, resolve conflict, and respect diversity. Minimum Qualifications: • Required: Active Pharmacy Technician registration/license in good standing with the Missouri Board of Pharmacy • Required: Ability to work consistently at an assigned store location • Required: Weekend availability • Preferred: Previous retail pharmacy experience