About The Position
Heywood Healthcare values its employees and offers competitive wages, great benefits, and generous earned time off. This Per Diem Pharmacy Technician position involves 8-16 hours per week, including weekends and rotating holidays. The role focuses on accurately filling and delivering patient medications, maintaining pharmacy inventory, and ensuring medication availability while adhering to strict protocols and regulations.
Requirements
- High School diploma or the equivalent required.
- Registration or registration eligible with the Commonwealth of MA is required.
- National certification from a recognized pharmacy technician certifying body (PTCB or NHA) is required upon hire or within one year of hire.
- Good customer service/interpersonal skills required.
Nice To Haves
- One year retail/hospital pharmacy technician experience is preferred.
- Experience in USP 797 or the willingness to learn required.
- Good working knowledge of common medication names and dosing preferred.
- Computer knowledge and proficient use of Microsoft Word and Excel is preferred.
- Meditech knowledge is helpful.
- Knowledge of automated dispensing machines (Omnicell, Pyxis) is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Accurately fills and delivers patient medication orders and unit requisitions.
- Generates lists and fills patient medication bins, and returns unused medications to stock.
- Restocks automated medication dispensing systems.
- Accurately prepares medications for dispensing using the laminar flow hood and aseptic technique consistent with USP 797 regulations.
- Organizes medications for pharmacist to dispense by preparing labels, calculating quantities, and assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
- Correctly places medications in stock and packages unit dose medications for stock from bulk bottles.
- Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking stock, anticipating needed medications and supplies, placing and expediting orders, verifying receipt, and removing outdated drugs.
- Collection and validation of the medication list by verification with the patient, pharmacies, primary care providers and specialists.
- Information gathering often includes calling the outpatient pharmacy to verify adherence, dosages and insurance information.
- Records medical histories while maintaining confidentiality and compliance with HIPAA regulations.
- Inputs medication list data accurately into MediTech medication reconciliation module for pharmacist review.
- Completes mandatory data collection spreadsheet on a daily basis.
- Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
- Returns, accurately and completely, medications to picking bins, as well as, ensures bins remain stocked.
- Performs inspections of medication storage areas and submits monthly reports to the Director of the Pharmacy.
- Checks the entire inventory for expired medications in the pharmacy and automated dispensing cabinets.
- Answers incoming phone calls and fields questions.
- Receives and stores incoming supplies, verifies quantities against invoices, and informs supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
- Works together with departmental and healthcare teams to complete assignments.
- Removes or arranges for removal of safety hazards from environment immediately.
- Prioritizes and reprioritizes work based on the changing needs of the patients.
- Keeps equipment in clean and working condition.
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Great benefits
- Generous earned time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
