Advanced Pharmacy Technician, Pipeline

Requirements

• Performs job responsibilities in accordance with organizational and departmental policies, procedures, performance improvement objectives and environmental/infection control standards.
• Coordinates daily workflow in assigned area and provides leadership to other technicians.
• Makes good decisions, accepts responsibilities and maintains competency in multiple areas.
• Is a knowledge and training resource for specific areas of responsibility and routinely works to improve these areas.
• Provides prompt and courteous service by receiving incoming calls (patients, nurses, physicians, etc.) and prioritizing based on urgency or nature of requests (triage).
• Participate in teaching activities, including but not limited to, precept Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Students, Pharmacists, and other healthcare practitioners.
• Actively enhances personal growth and development by participating in educational programs, in-services and meetings.
• Treats co-workers and organizational/departmental property and resources with respect by maintaining a clean, orderly and appropriately stocked work environment.
• Audits and signs out all controlled substances in accordance with state/federal guidelines and organizational policies.
• Identifies and corrects discrepancies and reports unusual usage patterns/trends.
• Completes medication area inspections in a thorough and timely manner.
• Removes and documents expired medications appropriately.
• Consistently works (multi-tasks) and problem solves independently and effectively with minimal supervision.
• Spend a total of 80% of their staffed hours performing one or a combination of the below advanced pharmacy technician concentration areas.
• Assists with ordering, managing and monitoring drug inventory in a fiscally responsible manner.
• Proper management and handling of medications, including investigational and controlled substances.
• Efficient operation and ability to troubleshoot specialty machinery, equipment, devices or software necessary in performing job functions.
• Generate and analyze reports from the automated dispensing cabinets and compare to administration records.
• Temperature monitoring for room, refrigerators and freezers.
• Competence in rebuilding code cart trays and creating drug kits as needed.
• Ordering, shipping, receiving, retrieving and documenting pharmacy inventory activities.
• Accurately prepares all sterile admixtures for adults, pediatrics and neonates using proper aseptic technique.
• Safely handles all hazardous medications, including chemotherapy.
• Delivers medications in a timely and efficient manner.
• Compounding, packaging and labeling of sterile and non-sterile products in accordance to USP regulations.
• Able to perform pharmaceutical calculations in execution of tasks.
• Competent in terminal cleaning and utilizing PAPR unit while cleaning underpan of CACI (when applicable).
• Efficient operation of specialty machinery and equipment.
• Special preparations (e.g. CADD delivery device, AIM, elastomeric pumps).
• Proficient with understanding sterility testing systems, USP compounding standards and state board of pharmacy rules as they relate to sterile and hazardous compounding.
• Proper management and handling of medications, including investigational and controlled substances.
• Accurately prepares investigational sterile admixtures for adults, pediatrics and neonates using proper aseptic technique.
• Safely handles all hazardous medications, including chemotherapy.
• Delivers medications in a timely and efficient manner.
• General understanding of research study protocols and unique requirements for each study protocol.
• Inventory management for study drug when stored inside and outside areas of IDS.
• Competence to work with study monitors and/or auditors for research studies.
• Proficient developing study procedures and troubleshooting issues that arise in IDS.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• PTO
• Paid Holidays
• On-site Childcare
• Wage
• Merit Increases