Pharmacy Technician

JOB DESCRIPTION: Under direct supervision of a registered pharmacist, the Pharmacy Technician is responsible for performing a variety of routine technical duties related to the purchasing, preparation, and dispensing medication in accordance with the applicable local, state, and federal laws.

JOB RESPONSIBLITIES:

1. Retrieves medication orders from nursing floors in a timely manner; labels, fills, and delivers all patient medications in a safe and timely manner.
2. Efficiently inventories, orders, stocks, and distributes pharmacy products.
3. Demonstrates working knowledge of drug names, routes of administration, dosage forms, drug interactions and pharmaceutical terms, abbreviations and symbols
4. Cognizant of local, state, federal, reviewing bodies, regulations and laws
5. Assists Pharmacist in fiduciary planning and seeks opportunities to reduce cost and minimize waste.
6. Admits to and/or discharges patients from the pharmacy systems; process provider orders for each patient in the pharmacy systems and on weekly basis generates medical renewal sheets and delivers them to each unit.
7. Checks daily census for admitted, discharged, and transferred patients, retrieves discharged patients’ medications from floors.
8. Picks and labels patient’s medication container/bag per the provider’s order; deliver medications to correct nursing unit and patient medication drawer after they have been checked by a pharmacist.
9. Checks in orders, color-codes each product with expiration date, checks in any order that came via drop ship, rotates and dates medications for expiration when putting away the deliveries, make copies of invoices.
10. Runs weekly and monthly pharmacy reports.
11. Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: High School Diploma and Alaska State Pharmacy Technician License required. Pharmacy Technician Certification is preferred. Relevant experience required.

BENEFITS HIGHLIGHTS

• Challenging & Rewarding Work Environment
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Plans
• 401(K) with Company Match & Discounted Stock Plan
• Career Development Opportunities within UHS and its 300 Subsidiaries!
• Tuition Assistance 

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $12.6 billion in 2021. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 89,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com

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We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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