What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Technician (Outpatient) position at Anchorage VA Medical Center?
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Pharmacy Technician works autonomously to perform a full range of duties. Accomplish all duties related to stocking, delivering, inventory, inspections, assembling ward orders, prescription assembly, controlled substances distribution, sterile compounding, unit-dose drug packaging, dispensing, distribution, and any other function.
Functions
Compressed/Flexible:Possible after training is completed
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): May be authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: AD-HOC
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Functional Statement #: 000000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Pharmacy Technician works autonomously to perform a full range of duties. Accomplish all duties related to stocking, delivering, inventory, inspections, assembling ward orders, prescription assembly, controlled substances distribution, sterile compounding, unit-dose drug packaging, dispensing, distribution, and any other function.
Responsibilities:
Total Rewards of a Allied Health ProfessionalFunctions
- Receives medication and supply orders from wholesalers and/or manufacturers
- Fill medication orders
- Dispense medication orders
- Daily operation and maintenance of automated equipment
- Assist with inventory management and control
- Read and interpret prescriptions
- Type community care prescriptions for verification by pharmacist
- Provide patient education on pharmacy topics such as process to request refills
- Conduct period inventory inspection of assigned pharmacy and non-pharmacy medication areas
- Maintains perpetual inventory of controlled substances, and work in pharmacy vault as assigned
- Repackaging of medication following pharmacy policies, including unit-of-use medications
- Processes mail-out prescriptions
- Stocks automated dispensing cabinets
- All other duties as assigned
Compressed/Flexible:Possible after training is completed
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): May be authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: AD-HOC
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Functional Statement #: 000000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Salary : $417