Field Trainer
Location: Multiple Areas
The Field Trainer develops and conducts training programs for employees and customers of pharmacy, durable medical equipment, nursing home, point of sale pharmacy operations and/or other healthcare related software packages by performing the following duties. This position is responsible for total customer satisfaction.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Confers with management to gain knowledge of customer or work situation requiring training for employees and/or clients to better understand the application operation of healthcare and pharmacy operations related software.
- Formulates teaching outline and determines instructional methods such as individual training, group instruction, lectures, demonstrations, conferences, meetings, and workshops.
- Assess and identify training delivery needs.
- Set, schedule, and conduct web-based pre and post training sessions.
- Selects or develops teaching aids such as training handbooks, demonstration models, multimedia visual aids, computer tutorials, and reference works.
- Ability to translate technical systems processes to the level of the user.
- Conducts training sessions covering specified areas such as pharmacy application, pharmacy operations, accounts receivable, nursing home administration, word processing and report writer software, use of computers software and hardware.
- Report on progress of customers and employees under guidance during training periods.
- Proofread and provide documentation for user’s manuals as requested.
- Must be able to perform simple installation procedures of computer equipment independently or with telephone assistance.
- Must provide customer service and/or quality control duties when requested.
- Required to be familiar with hardware and operating system features and commands necessary in troubleshooting customer problems.
- Ability to deal with frustrated or escalated customers, resolves problems, and satisfies customers.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Skills and Abilities
- Must be able to travel throughout the United States and surrounding territories utilizing car, train, boat and/or airplane. Job requires 3 weeks travel out of every month, usually traveling 3-4 days out of every week.
- Ability to multi task.
- Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose system and/or software problems.
- Must provide good customer relations at all times and promote company.
- Ability to provide special public relations as needed.
- Ability to book accurate travel arrangements within corporate guidelines as requested.
- Ability to provide timely, detailed expense reports.
Qualifications
- Prefer previous pharmacy technician experience.
- Bachelor’s degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or two years related experience and/or in product training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Knowledge of pharmacy, nursing home, and/or point of sale terminology.
- Ability to operate computer equipment.
- Good working knowledge of Windows and office products.
If you meet the criteria above, please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@rxlps.com ATTN: Lori McDaniel. Please state the position of interest.
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