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Pharmacy Technician I
CHI Saint Joseph Health System
Lexington, Kentucky
About Us
Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 138 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.
Our Mission
As CommonSpirit Health, we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all. To learn more about a calling that defines and unites, please click here for more information about our mission, vision, and values.
The posted compensation range of $16.42 - $23.19 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.
Requisition ID 2025-449759
Employment Type Full Time
Department Pharmacy
Hours/Pay Period 80
Shift Evening
Weekly Schedule Evening
Remote No
Category Pharmacy
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Pharmacy Tech, you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.
Every day, you'll build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times. Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.
To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times. You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.
Assists pharmacist in providing pharmaceutical care to include (but not limited to):
Preparing, filling and distributing medication
Screening phone calls/orders and alerting the pharmacist to patient-specific data
Prepares labels with medication name, strength, lot number and expiration date.
Performs monthly patient care area inspections and reports as assigned by the manager.
Completes charges/credits daily for billing.
Maintains the various work areas of the department and equipment/utensils in a neat, clean, and orderly appearance.
Restocks special care stock supplies (i.e. emergency drugs to crash carts and heart carts) under pharmacist supervision.
Job Requirements
Required
High school/GED, upon hire and
Pharmacy Technician: KY, upon hire or
Pharmacist Intern: KY, upon hire
Preferred
Previous Pharmacy Technician experience
Where You'll Work
Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital, a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.
Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.