What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Pharmacy Technician 4 (IV Compounding) position at Omnicell?
What You Can Expect
Career growth: Join a team that values promoting its members. Begin as an automation pharmacy technician and advance into roles such as professional services, consulting, marketing, management and beyond.
Opportunities are limitless at Omnicell for people who are driven and motivated about all aspects of healthcare.
Learning and development: Maintain your skillset at its best through ongoing on-the-job training centered around state-of-the-art pharmacy technology. Take advantage of mentorship opportunities and utilize comprehensive learning initiatives tailored to improve your interpersonal skills.
Excellent benefits: Your benefits start on your first day. We design our health, insurance, retirement, educational, and well-being programs to ensure quality, value, and financial protection to help you and your family live well.
Day in the Life
Role
As a Pharmacy Services Automation Pharmacy Technician 4, you step into a critical role, ensuring the seamless daily dispensing of all sterile compounded medications from Omnicell's advanced automated IV equipment. Your role includes:
Responsibilities
Career growth: Join a team that values promoting its members. Begin as an automation pharmacy technician and advance into roles such as professional services, consulting, marketing, management and beyond.
Opportunities are limitless at Omnicell for people who are driven and motivated about all aspects of healthcare.
Learning and development: Maintain your skillset at its best through ongoing on-the-job training centered around state-of-the-art pharmacy technology. Take advantage of mentorship opportunities and utilize comprehensive learning initiatives tailored to improve your interpersonal skills.
Excellent benefits: Your benefits start on your first day. We design our health, insurance, retirement, educational, and well-being programs to ensure quality, value, and financial protection to help you and your family live well.
Day in the Life
Role
As a Pharmacy Services Automation Pharmacy Technician 4, you step into a critical role, ensuring the seamless daily dispensing of all sterile compounded medications from Omnicell's advanced automated IV equipment. Your role includes:
- Equipment management, maintenance, cleaning, and troubleshooting.
- Material management and movement.
- Managing optimal medication inventory levels.
- Diligently reviewing and updating documentation.
- Effective customer communication for building strong relationships.
Responsibilities
- Perform IV automation tasks in an aseptic, error free manner, consistent with standard operating procedures.
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly IV automation equipment cleaning and maintenance.
- Follow Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs procedures when handling medications.
- Responsible for identifying / ordering medications to ensure medication inventories are at optimal levels.
- Responsible for monitoring and ordering consumable supplies required for the operation of the equipment.
- Responsible for performing basic troubleshooting and standard maintenance of IV automation equipment and reporting unresolved equipment issues to the IV TAC.
- Complete fingertip and media fill sampling.
- Maintain a high level of communication with pharmacy operations manager and customer, to ensure proactive, solution-oriented problem identification and resolution.
- Maintain a high level of customer satisfaction by aligning the Pharmacy Services Program to provide customer-focused support emphasizing quality, professionalism, and responsiveness, by acting as liaison between Omnicell and customer to assist with customer concerns.
- Conduct training and ensure completion of all required documents and compliance with all Pharmacy Services procedures and policies.
- Maintain fiscal responsibility for work-related expenses, complete expense reports, adhere to corporate card procedures, per Omnicell travel policies.
- Comply with reasonable procedures, policies and guidelines established by the Customer facility.
- Maintain national certification and all state required credentialing.
- Act as a resource or SME, for Omnicell team members, providing training and/or assistance either on site or remotely to ensure optimal workflow.
- Good organizational skills in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrate customer service skills.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work with mechanical equipment.
- Working knowledge of computer hardware, Microsoft Windows, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- A self-starter who is able to work independently and follow a detailed plan.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work well with customers and with employees at various levels.
- High school diploma or GED
- Active Nationally Certified Pharmacy Technician Certification : PTCB or via NHA, CPhT / EXCPT
- Active State Pharmacy Technician License/Registration with State Board of Pharmacy, for the State of NC
- Working knowledge of IV Compounding
- One year of IV Compounding experience.
- Proficient in the use of PPE and hand hygiene techniques.
- Working knowledge of sterile environment requirement.
- Completed an accredited Pharmacy Technician Training Program.
- Two years previous experience in hospital pharmacy automation.
- Basic Troubleshooting Skills with automation devices.
- Automation implementation experience.
- Ability to travel for trainings (paid training)
- Able to daily commute to and work daily at client site: 1121 N. Church Street, Greensboro, NC 27401
- Able to work M-F, 5 am to 3:30 pm (may subject to change)
- Hospital Pharmacy environment.
- 8-to-10-hour shifts.
- Working hours may be outside of normal business hours based on business or project needs.
- Capable of standing for several hours at a time.
- Potential exposure to hazardous drugs.
- Able to lift up to 35 lbs.
- Selected candidates may be required to pass a math aptitude test.