Location: Philadelphia, PA (One will report to Valley Forge and one will report to Radnor site)
Shift: Day: 8-4:30p or 8:30-5p, no weekends or on call required, 40 hours per week, 13 Weeks contract
Start date: ASAP.
Job Description:
Pharmacy Technicians needed to ring out prescriptions in Point of sale, count medication, stock , inventory, and other technician duties. Key responsibilities include:
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supports pharmacological services by stocking, assembling, and distributing medications.
- Helps health care providers and patients by greeting them in person and by phone, answering questions and requests, and referring inquiries to the pharmacist.
- Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed medications and supplies, placing and expediting orders, verifying receipt, and removing outdated drugs.
- Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
- Organizes medications for pharmacist to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions, preparing labels, calculating quantities, and assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
- Maintains records by recording and filing physicians’ orders and prescriptions.
- Generates revenues by calculating, recording, and issuing charges.
- Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
- Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Education and Experience:
- A high school qualification or equivalent.
- Must have 2+ years of recent Pharmacy Technician experience, minimum exp with compounding of drugs preferred to have hazardous drug compounding experience
- Certifications:
- Must have CPhT and Pharmacy Technician license
- Other requirements:
- Fully vaccinated for COVID-19