What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Tech position at UT Health Athens?
Overview
Join our team as a PRN, Pharmacy Tech in Athens, TX
Why Join Us?
Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better
- Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
- People-First: We prioritize your well-being with a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
- Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
Get to Know Your Team:
- UT Health Athens is a 127-bed facility, including a 24-hour ED, designated as a Level IV trauma center and Level IV stroke center; advanced diagnostic technology; 10-bed ICU; maternity unit radiation therapy center; and a stand-alone ED in Gun Barrel City.
Responsibilities
- Under the supervision of a pharmacist, assist with the technical, and non-clinical aspects of preparing medications for dispensing and assist in pharmacy operations.
- Assist in compounding non-sterile medications by USP 795 and other regulatory agencies and organizational policies.
- Restock the pharmacy with inventory from orders and medications received from returns from the floor or automated dispensing machines.
- Ensure all expired, damaged, or compromised medication in the pharmacy, automated machines, and floor stock are removed and segregated from active inventory.
- Maintain documentation of activities by following policy, and neatly file appropriate documentation records.
- Assist in training newly hired pharmacy techs.
- Monitor and review daily batch reports, such as restock reports, stock out reports, all station events, discrepancies, overrides, and ordered medications not loaded.
- Prepare sterile intravenous admixtures aseptically and by USP 797/800, State Board of Pharmacy Regulations, and organizational policies.
- Maintain the pharmacy in an organized manner.
Qualifications
Job Requirements:
- High School graduate or GED.
- 2 years of previous hospital pharmacy technician experience (inclusive of training programs).
- Completion of sterile compounding training/competency (as required by State BOP).
- Active Registered Pharmacy Technician in good standing with the Board of Pharmacy.
- National Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT).
- Current Basic Life Support certification
