Pharmacy Technician I
Arkansas Children's
Little Rock, ARFresher54m agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
- Position designated as safety sensitive.
- Work Shift: Day Shift
- Time Type: Full time
- Department: Acute Care Pharmacy
- Salary: Most new hires start between $17.20-$21.50 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications.
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, 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) required.
- Pharmacy Technician certification by the AR State Board of Pharmacy required.
Qualifications
- Provide basic assistance to pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with the medication delivery system.
- Communicate any issues with order preparation and delivery with staff pharmacist.
- Associate Degree recommended.
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) – PTCB – Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) recommended.
- Not a current user of medical marijuana.