Pharmacy Technician I

About the Role

• Position Type: Full Time
• Work Shift: Day Shift
• Hours: 7am - 3:30pm
• Schedule: Variable days and weekends
• Department: Acute Care Pharmacy

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare new and refill medication doses, including oral, injectable, IV solutions, floor stock requests, and other supply needs.
• Prepare medication and IVs, fill order requests, cart fills, and refills efficiently and accurately.
• Process orders safely, prioritizing needs.
• Repackage and label medications appropriately.
• Investigate and process missing doses of medications.
• Fill emergency and stat orders in a timely manner.
• Perform controlled substances responsibilities, which may include delivery, inventory, returns, preparation, labeling, and communication of problems or discrepancies to management.
• Communicate with other hospital staff to provide information and resolve issues to improve patient care.
• Solve issues with missing medication, debits, and credits.
• Maintain drug storage areas to ensure items are stored in a clean and orderly manner.
• Check and clean expired medication areas, update lot numbers, and expiration dates.
• Perform aseptic and clean procedures when processing sterile and non-sterile medication orders.
• Document fill lists, manufacturing and repackaging, and ordering unit dose oral solids and liquids.
• Assist with stocking and inventory control.
• Repackage medications from bulk to single units and update lot numbers and expiration dates.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Pharmacy Technician certification from the AR State Board of Pharmacy

Qualifications

• Entry Level - Experience Not Required
• Communicate any issues with order preparation and delivery with staff pharmacist.
• Provides basic assistance to pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with the medication delivery system.

Recommended

• Associate Degree
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) – PTCB