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Specialty Pharmacy Technician

CVS Health

Washington, DCFull-time$17–34.15/hrPosted 1w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$17–34.15/hr
Location
Washington, DC
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

DC Pharmacy Technician Registration

Job overview

CVS Health is hiring a Pharmacy Technician for its CarePlus Specialty Pharmacy team, which serves patients with conditions including MS, oncology, hepatitis, HIV, rheumatology, dermatology, and transplant and gastrointestinal diseases. The technician will support prescription processing, patient delivery arrangements, order fulfillment and shipping, inventory, and walk-in customer transactions. The role is full-time, with a 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. schedule.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Prescription ProcessingPatient CommunicationMedication Order FulfillmentMedication ShippingInventory ManagementCustomer ServiceCash Register OperationsSpanishPrior AuthorizationPharmacy Claim Adjudication

Qualifications

Pharmacy Technician ExperienceDC Pharmacy Technician RegistrationPTCB CertificationHigh School Diploma or GEDRetail Environment ExperienceCustomer Service Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match

Full job description

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary CVS health has an exciting new opportunity as a Pharmacy Technician on our CarePlus Specialty Pharmacy team. The team specializes in MS, Oncology, Hepatitis, HIV, Rheumatology, Dermatology, and Transplant and Gastrointestinal diseases. As part of the team, you will be leading an innovative and bold initiative aimed at transforming health care and pharmacy leveraging new and emerging information, technologies and channels.

You will be essential to ensuring medication has been filled correctly and be responsible for accurately entering prescription information as needed. You will also be asked to contact patients to arrange delivery or set a pickup date, perform refill reminder calls, accurately fill medication orders, prepare orders for delivery, packing/shipping medication orders via various carriers for final delivery to the patient, maintaining adequate inventory, managing inventory functions, helping walk-in customers, performing cash register transactions.

The pharmacy is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 6pm and we are seeking someone to work full time.

Schedule: 9:30am - 6:00pm

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision insurance as well as a wide-ranging list of supplemental benefits and discount programs. In addition to sixteen paid days off for employees, we also offer ten paid holidays.

Required Qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience as a pharmacy technician or in a clinically-based customer service representative role.
  • Must have active registration as a pharmacy technician with the District of Columbia (Washington DC) Board of Pharmacy.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bilingual (Spanish)
  • PTCB Certification
  • Previous Retail environment.
  • Previous Customer Service experience.
  • Previous Prior Authorization experience.
  • Previous Pharmacy Claim Adjudication experience.

Education

  • Verifiable High School diploma or GED is required.

Anticipated Weekly Hours 40

Time Type Full time

Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is:

$17.00 - $34.15 This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility. Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/10/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

How this job compares

Set against the 13,525 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17–34.15/hr
  • US median$18–27/hr10,739 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $25.58/hr, is 14% above the US median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the top quarter of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 13,525 open Pharmacy Technician jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (2,591 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 4,705 of the 13,525 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (35%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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