Pharmacy Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant For Inpatient Pharmacy Services

Avera McKennan Hospital Worker Type: Regular Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America) Pay Range: $19.25 - $25.00

Position Highlights

The Administrative Assistant for Inpatient Pharmacy Services provides high-level administrative and analytical support to pharmacy leadership and staff to ensure efficient operations and effective decision-making. This position emphasizes data management, analytics, and dashboard creation, with responsibility for compiling, analyzing, and preparing information to present to leadership in clear, actionable formats.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience in data tracking, performance reporting, and developing visual dashboards to support process improvement and strategic planning initiatives within a healthcare or pharmacy environment. Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, Teams, and SharePoint are preferred for managing data workflows, collaboration, and information sharing.

In addition to data-focused responsibilities, this role performs a variety of clerical and administrative tasks, including scheduling, document preparation, record management, and project coordination. The Administrative Assistant serves as a key resource to Avera Pharmacy leaders and team members, helping maintain an organized, efficient, and supportive work environment that aligns with departmental goals and patient care priorities.

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Accountable for performing a variety of clerical tasks, providing administrative support to Avera leaders and staff to ensure efficient workflow.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for a variety of clerical tasks including but not limited to scheduling, filing, generating and/or presenting data, message response and project support.
• Ensure and maintain organization of documents, processes and other materials.
• Answer and address phone calls and other messages, routing appropriately if needed.
• Clear collaboration with leader and staff to support efficient operations.
• Support and maintain a professional business atmosphere within work areas assigned.

Essential Qualifications

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• High School or GED Equivalent

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Associate's Business Administration, Accounting or a related field
• 1-3 years Administrative work, office management, accounting

Expectations and Standards:

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera's mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera's values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera's standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Free health insurance options, for full-time single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship