Pharmacy Technician

Description

*Minimum 1 year of experience as a license tech is required.

Opportunity to work with a great company that offers long-term growth, high employee engagement with year round donations, spirit weeks, pot lucks, community events and more!

Central Fill Pharmacy Technician

The ideal candidate will be able to accurately and efficiently fill prescription requests in a high volume automated refill setting. Under the supervision of a Pharmacist the Pharmacy Technician prepares packages and distributes medications in a fast-paced production environment. Maintains continuous consistent work flow in order to meet daily production goals and has the ability to work productively either independently or as a team with acute attention to detail while performing repetitive tasks.

• Manually fill prescription vials with prescribed tablets and capsules. Must read computer generated screens to find indicated merchandise on labeled shelves verify size and strength. Perform basic mathematical reasoning to either count or calculate appropriate number of units needed to fill prescriptions.
• Replenish medication in automated dispensing cells to full capacity opening large quantities of bottles and cases of product. Use of handheld scanner unit to scan barcodes of product entering expiration and lot information into computer application. Maintains high level of focus to avoid cross contamination and performs quality assurance check for expired and/or damaged product.
• Completes weekly cycle counts as assigned by Inventory Mgr. Requires audits of cell inventory counting product at primary and secondary bin locations. Assists with research and identification of root cause of discrepancies as needed.
• Prepare cold chain and specialty prescriptions following special requirements for handling and packing.
• Assists with packing and shipping of prescriptions. Understands and abides by federal and state HIPAA laws as well as pharmacy standard procedures to ensure patient safety and privacy.
• Demonstrate problem resolution skills: ability to recognize address and escalate issues to management.
• Perform cleaning and maintenance on all cells/cassettes as needed. Includes dissembling of automated cells replacing broken or missing parts and performing calibration audits.

Qualifications

• CA Pharmacy Technician license required
• PTCB National certification preferred
• One year pharmacy retail or customer service setting
• Knowledge of federal and state HIPAA laws
• Skill using Mini Parata Kalish and Baker cassettes preferred

Working Conditions:

Environment Office warehouse etc.

- Large scale pharmacy/warehouse production environment

- Exposure to cold conditions in refrigerated walk-in station 5-7 time

- Occasional handling of environmentally hazardous medications

Schedule: MUST Be flexible, will start training M-F 8am-5pm then subject to change to T-Sa 2pm-10pm 2nd shift