Pharmacy Technician (Per Diem) | Float

SUMMARY:
As a Pharmacy Tech, your excellent organization skills and attention to detail make you a crucial resource within the unit and ensures quality patient care.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Consistently, promptly and courteously assist/wait on customers, maintaining confidentiality at all times. Obtain all necessary personal, medical (allergies/conditions) and insurance information from patient. Record information on the prescription and entering appropriate information into the pharmacy computer.

• Pursuant to pharmacist’s order and designated work area, assist in filling patient prescriptions for pharmacist verification.

• Pulls or procures drug product and original prescription, counts and assesses reorder status.

• Receives requests for refills through automated process and otherwise (phone), and ensures proper requested information is processed and communicated to pharmacists in a courteous manner.

• Assists in checking in the pharmaceutical orders, verifying invoices/packing slips with pharmacy order, stickers drug products/supplies and places them into stock. Maintains adequate supplies (dispensing bottles, computer labels, bags, Medela products, necessary pharmacy billing and signature logs, etc.)

• Monthly checks of the drug inventory for outdated drugs, remove and logs items in the designated returns area. CII’s are logged out of inventory log first, then removed to designated return area and logged again.
  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• None, willing to train.

• National Pharmacy Certification required within 18 months of hire

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School diploma or equivalent.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills for routine interaction with hospital staff, patients and visitors.

• 1 year of work experience in a clinical, retail or healthcare setting.