Inpatient Pharmacy Technician, Nationally Certified
About The Position
This role involves reviewing and processing departmental order requests, preparing and distributing medications to patient care units, and managing medication inventory. The technician will also be responsible for ordering medications from suppliers, preparing parenteral products, and pre-packaging/labeling bulk medications. Additional duties include training new personnel, handling billing and other non-pharmacist tasks, maintaining records, answering phones, and ensuring departmental cleanliness. Specific to the nationally certified role, responsibilities include obtaining patient medication orders for reconciliation and preparing chemotherapy and dosage calculations.
Requirements
- Ability to read, write and communicate in English.
- High school diploma or GED.
- Massachusetts state registration as a Pharmacy Technician.
- Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) certification or equivalent certification.
- One-year recent experience (within the past 3 years) as a Pharmacy Technician.
- Duties require very good verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Nice To Haves
- 3 years preferred experience as a Pharmacy Technician, OR PTCB certification or equivalent certification as an Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Trainee.
Responsibilities
- Reviews and processes departmental order requests.
- Prepares medications for distribution to the patient care units.
- Distributes medications to the patient care units.
- Orders medications from various suppliers.
- Prepares parenteral products.
- Maintains the medication inventory, place orders in stock, check expiration dates, process returns as needed.
- Trains and orients new pharmacy support personnel.
- Billing and other pharmacy duties that do not require a pharmacist.
- Maintains appropriate records and regulatory documentation.
- Pre-packaging and labeling of bulk medications to unit dosed containers/packaging.
- Answers telephone directing phone calls appropriately and diverts all medication/clinical inquiries to the Pharmacist.
- Consistently provides service excellence to all patients, family members, visitors, volunteers and coworkers.
- Maintains cleanliness of the department.
- Performs other work related duties as assigned.
- Obtains patient medication orders for medication reconciliation duties to input into MAR.
- Prepares chemotherapy and dosage calculation checks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
