Pharmacy Technician III - Inpatient Pharmacy - Shift

Kern Medical • Bakersfield, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Kern Medical is seeking a Pharmacy Technician III for its Inpatient Pharmacy. This is an advanced journey level position within the Pharmacy Technician flexible series. Incumbents are registered Pharmacy Technicians who perform routine, complex, and specialized duties in Pharmacy practice. The role involves managing inventory, filling prescriptions, preparing medications, operating hospital information systems, and training subordinate incumbents. This is a full-time position.

Requirements

• Three (3) years’ experience as a Pharmacy Technician I with Kern Medical Center or equivalent pharmacy practice.
• Current registration by the Board of Pharmacy as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Appointees not possessing the American Heart Association Responder or Provider Basic Life Support (BLS) card at time of hire must successfully complete appropriate training and qualify for the RQI Responder certification within 60 days of employment.
• Knowledge of non-professional pharmacy practices for inpatient and ambulatory care.
• Knowledge of restrictive nature of medications and controlled substances.
• Knowledge of aseptic techniques in the preparation of sterile products.
• Knowledge of laboratory techniques and inventory procedures including process, expiration and limited stability dates.
• Ability to read and understand prescriptions and chart orders for medications and related information.
• Ability to perform mathematical calculations for reducing bulk medications, diluting medications and transposing American and Metric systems.
• Ability to process charges for medications and related services.
• Ability to operate a computer.
• Ability to work with health professionals and patients.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to organize and delegate work.
• Ability to provide guidance to subordinate incumbents.

Nice To Haves

• Possession of a current valid California Driver’s License (if position responsibilities require driving a personal vehicle).
• Possession of a current valid California Driver’s license, a signed authorization for Release of Drivers Record Information and adherence to the Kern County Hospital Authority Vehicle Use and Driving Standard Policy (ENG-EC-119) (if position responsibilities require driving a vehicle owned, leased or rented by Kern Medical).

Responsibilities

• Regularly fills ambulatory care prescriptions for dispensing by the pharmacist.
• Manages inventory including issues, orders, stores, cost accounts, issues floor stock, and approves payments for inventory received.
• Processes orders for controlled substances.
• Refills physician's orders by placing patient's medications in individual drawers in medication carts.
• Refills other medication requests from nursing units.
• Prepares individualized unit dose preparations for patients.
• Performs manual filling function.
• Fills requests from nursing units for floor stock medications and charges items to that unit.
• Delivers controlled substances to requesting nursing units.
• Retrieves physician's order copies from nursing units and returns medications to the proper unit.
• Assists in the control and storage of inventory, noting items that appear to be low in level.
• Receives and unpacks incoming stock and places it on the shelves.
• Removes unacceptable or expired medication from inventory for return or discard.
• Cleans and cares for equipment carts, medications, Pharmacy fixtures, and automated pharmacy equipment.
• Fills orders using automated dispensing devices and completes basic functions, such as filling cells (outpatient) and filling/removing items in MedStations (PYXIS).
• Performs report checking/resolves discrepancies and performs basic troubleshooting.
• Maintains patient medication profiles by properly charging and crediting the computer system for inpatients and outpatients.
• Receives prescriptions from outpatients, enters data into the computer system, and assists the pharmacist with record keeping and charging/crediting.
• Assists in dispensing completed prescriptions to outpatients or discharge patients.
• Reduces bulk medications into unit dose or unit of use packaging with proper labeling and lot numbers.
• Assists in simple labeling and simple dilutions.
• Prepares sterile solutions, including chemotherapy, using aseptic technique, both manually and with automated pharmacy equipment.
• Operates the hospital information system for printing fill lists for cart filling, ambulatory prescriptions, charges, and label printing.
• Trains subordinate incumbents.
• Delegates work assignments to subordinate incumbents.
• Responsible for advanced automated functions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• New Hire Premium: +6% of base rate of pay, matched up to 6% if contributed to Deferred Compensation Plan.
• Shift Differential Pay: P.M. shift (7:00 PM - 7:30 AM) = 10% of base pay.
• Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Eligibility for participation and company contributions into the Kern County Employees’ Retirement Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed