What are the responsibilities and job description for the PHARMACY TECH position at REGION VI COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION?
Are you looking to be part of a diverse, clinical team devoted to helping people at their most vulnerable? Are you looking to be part of an organization that offers ongoing professional growth and development, as well as opportunities for advancement? If so, Life Help welcomes you to submit an application of employment to join our team.
Life Help is a regional community mental health center that has provided comprehensive, community-based mental health and substance abuse services for nearly fifty years. Our team is committed to improving the lives of every individual that walks through our doors.
- Affordable Health Insurance
- Free Dental Insurance
- Free Life Insurance
- State Retirement
- 13 paid holidays, including your birthday
- Personal and Medical leave accruing monthly
- FMLA benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Deferred Comp
- Employee Assistance Program
- Student Loan forgiveness through HRSA for qualifying employees
- LPC Supervision
- Mileage Reimbursement (as applicable)
- Voluntary Additional Life and Disability Insurance
Job Duties:
- Packing, pouring, or placing in a container for dispensing, sale, distribution, transfer possession of, vending, or barter any drug, medicine, poison, or chemical which, under the laws of the United States or State of Mississippi, may be sold or dispensed only on the prescription of a practitioner authorized by law to prescribe drugs, medicines, poisons, or chemicals. This shall also include the adding of water for reconstitution of oral antibiotic liquids.
- Affixing required labels upon any container of drugs, medicines, poisons, or chemicals sold or dispensed upon prescription of a practitioner authorized by law to prescribe those drugs, medicines, poisons, or chemicals.
- Taking from, and replacing upon shelves in the prescription department of a pharmacy, drugs, medicines, chemicals, or poisons which are required by the law of the United States or the State of Mississippi to be sold or dispensed only on prescription of a practitioner authorized by law to prescribe them.
- Entering information into the pharmacy computer. The pharmacy technician shall not make any judgmental decisions, which could affect patient care. The final verification of prescription information entered into the computer shall be made by the supervising pharmacist who is then totally responsible for all aspects of the data and data entry.
- Obtaining prescriber authorization for prescription refills provided that nothing about the prescription is changed.
- Prepackaging and labeling of multi-dose and unit-dose packages of medication. The pharmacist must establish the procedures, including selection of containers, labels and lot numbers, and must check the finished task for group homes.
- Assist customers by answering appropriate questions or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
Qualifications:
- Pharmacy Tech Certification
- High School Diploma or GED
- Valid Mississippi Driver’s License