PROFILE SUMMARY:
The Pharmacy Technician will assist with the promotion and delivery of quality, safe, rational and effective pharmaceutical services to the patients, and health care practitioners of River’s Edge Specialty Pharmacy. Uses critical thinking skills and exercises independent decision-making as needed for the provision of safe and rational medication therapy. Understands and exemplifies excellent customer service.
KEY ACCOUNTABLITIES:
- Process new and refill prescriptions: both for home health care and specialty pharmacy
- Reviewing pending refills with the supervising pharmacist, and generate the refill documentation.
- Pick all supplies and medications on the compounding sheet and delivery ticket and stage these for pharmacist verification
- Generate delivery and pick up tickets
- Communicate as necessary with patients within the pharmacy technician scope of practice to determine their general health status, medication compliance , drug and supply inventory , and overall coordination of care and patient service needs
- Gather , organize and update pharmacy software with clinical data for review and action by the patient care team (Pharmacist, Nurse and Prescriber) to include: • Lab Data • Patient contact documented. • Hospitalizations documented • Documentation on patient END of Therapy
- Help in the management of the inventory to be dispensed and ordered. Use the inventory log sheets per pharmacy protocol.
- Generate pharmacy and clinical reports from the pharmacy software as directed by supervisor.
- Assist in the non-clinical coordination of patient assessment, drug compounding and delivery to meet lead times and delivery deadlines under direct supervision of the pharmacist
- Attend the morning and afternoon patient care meetings and provide a status report on all the patients assigned to him/her.
- Assist in the prioritization and progress of patient paperwork.
- Track control substance prescriptions requiring the prescriber signature, as well ensuring that the control substance log is updated in Pharmacy Software or other pharmacy software daily.
- Perform sterile compounding according to the pharmacy policy and procedures manual and strict adherence to USP<797> and USP <800>s.
- Pass all annual pharmacy competencies for employee compounding validations and other test and assessments as outlined in the policies and procedure manual as applicable.
- Assist the pharmacist with counting, bottling and labeling of all specialty and oral medications, in accordance with state laws and regulations.
- Help with maintaining the compliance of DME equipment as ambulatory infusion pumps which may include cleaning, calibration, maintaining inventory of clean pumps, etc.
DIVISION/TEAM SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:
The ratio of a pharmacist to a technician and a pharmacy intern are as follows: There would only be one pharmacy technician to a pharmacist (with the exception of a second technician working exclusively to input drug orders) and no more than two pharmacist interns if only one pharmacist is working in the prescription area of a pharmacy. If there are two or more pharmacists, then the allotted pharmacy technician ratio may increase by two for each additional pharmacist on duty. Thus, two pharmacists may have a total of three pharmacy technicians working.
EDUCATION:
- Required: High School Diploma or equivalent
- Required Certification, License or Memberships: CA BOP Pharmacy Technician License in Good standing & National Pharmacy Technician Certification (PTCB).
EXPERIENCE:
- Prior experience with filling of medications in pharmacy environment (required)
- Prior experience with filling of medications in specialty pharmacy environment (preferred)
- Technician registration in practicing state.
- National Pharmacy Technician Certification and certificate from accredited school in states where required.
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Work Environment: Pharmacy
- Physical Effort: Occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.
- Equipment Used: Pen, Paper, Computer, Tablet, Phone
- % Travel Required: N/A
PAY RANGE:
$21 - $28 an hour DOE