What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Pharmacy Tech - Full-Time position at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center?
Description
The work location for this position is Lewiston, Idaho
Full-Time: 80-hrs per pay period
Hours: 7:30am - 5:30pm
Benefits May Include:
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 401k w/ employer match
- Short & Long-term disabilities
- Life & AD&D insurances
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
- and more…
Position Summary:
This position if for entry level pharmacy technicians, and non-certified pharmacy technicians. This position will require registration with the Idaho Board of Pharmacy, orientation and competencies relevant to hospital pharmacy workflows. The pharmacy technicians are an important part of ensuring medication safety for all patients we care for.
Primary (Essential) Duties:
- Oversee ADC controlled substance inventory management processes and proper counts (including monthly inventory)
- Ensure the timely resolution of ADC controlled substance discrepancies as supported by departmental policy and procedure
- Review outliers in controlled substance transactions among ADC cabinet users and work with area user management when outliers are identified
- Provide audits for pharmacy personnel when conducting daily ADC transaction activities
- Provide audits for nursing medication administration, documentation, and waste
- Deliver medications to the floors and refill ADCs
- Monitor inventory and keep buyer updated of all inventory issues
- Perform compounding for patient needs, this includes compliance to USP 795, USP 797, and USP 800 requirements.
- May be asked to support medication reconciliation by performing medication history gathering for newly admitted patients.
Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position. While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.
Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.
While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.
Qualifications
Required:
- High school diploma, or GED
- Idaho State or Technician in Training License required upon hire
- PTCB/NHA Certification required within 1 year of hire to qualify for Certified Pharmacy Technician ladder
Preferred:
- Some college education
