Pharmacy Technician Specialist Part Time

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Pharmacy Technician Specialist

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Pharmacy Technician Specialist is responsible for accurately performing advanced and basic pharmacy technician functions in a timely manner. In addition, they are responsible for performing duties associated with Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs), other specialized duties and/or leadership roles as assigned by the pharmacy management team.

• Identifies critical issues, prioritize workload and communicate to appropriate personnel any issues in a timely manner
• Completes all education requirements and/or other activities needed to maintain competency Complies with facility policy and procedures and regulatory requirements
• Interacts in person and by phone with hospital personnel politely and appropriately.
• Accurately maintains and coordinates required documentation logs
• Provide direction and training to other technicians as assigned.
• Assists in the supervision of other technicians to ensure that policies and procedures and regulatory requirements are uniformly and consistently followed.
• Responsible for maintaining medication storage and security as per regulatory requirements throughout the organization
• Accurately performs audits (i.e. anesthesia, overrides, billing, etc.) as assigned.
• Performs and monitors compliance for quality control and performance improvement functions as assigned
• Accurately performs and documents monthly medication storage area inspections as assigned
• Performs and supervises other technicians for administrative billing functions as assigned
• Assists the pharmacists in clinical reviews as assigned (i.e. medication reconciliation, triaging reports, etc).
• Accurately performs required calculations
• Accurately and safely compounds and label medications and parenteral admixtures
• Always utilizes aseptic techniques in the preparation of parenteral compounding
• Compliant with all USP 797 daily/monthly requirements (i.e. Cleaning laminar airflow cabinets and biological safety cabinets, wearing personal protective equipment, etc.)
• Always obtains a final check from the pharmacist before releasing any prepared parenteral compounds, before packaging any medication, or dispensing any medication
• Prepares and monitors all work records needed for day at their designated times including the Discontinued, Transfers, and Discharges Lists of parenteral preparations and efficiently processes these reports before they are dispensed to the patient care areas
• Compounds chemotherapy preparation per established protocol
• Ensures that medications and other pharmacy supplies are accurately transported in a timely manner to appropriate areas
• Accurately fills orders in the pharmacy
• Ensures that medication returns are consistently and timely restocked in the pharmacy.
• Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) Super User/Trainer
• Performing daily ADC routines as assigned (i.e. restocks, outdates, discrepancy resolution, loading and unloading, etc.) and provides oversight of these activities for appropriate inventory management
• Coordinates and communicates with the appropriate support personnel. Performs trouble shooting (see tech II) and addresses all problems appropriately
• Assist in education of new pharmacy ADC users and serve as a resource to both pharmacy and nursing staff for problems and/or questions.
• Manages the ADC’s formulary for new medications. Will communicate with individual ADC users when errors are made and re-educate as to correct procedures.
• Removes Medications from ADC appropriately due to non-usage
• ADC . Manages user database ADC Expiration Audits – enforces policy to reduce waste/expirations
• Assists with narcotic ordering and maintains inventory as assigned
• Narcotic Discrepancy Audits – Investigates Discrepancies to determine if true discrepancy and completes Audit sheets and/or incidence reports as appropriate.
• Replenishes ADCs, emergency cart trays and floor stock accurately and as needed Establish and maintain daily batch reports
• Monitor ADT activities and appropriately correct any problems
• Accurately packages and prepares medications for dispensing as assigned
• Appropriately and timely notifies the pharmacy inventory manager/buyer of products that need to be reordered.
• Complies and supervises ongoing processes to monitor outdates as per policy and procedures
• Performs receiving and check in of medication/supply orders as defined in policy and notifies the pharmacy inventory manager/buyer of any shortages, overages or product damage.
• Manages drug supplies in a cost effective manner and identifies opportunities to minimize waste. Performs the role of the Inventory Manager/buyer when that person is not available or as assigned.
• Works with Inventory Manager, IV room and utilizes EXP reports to reduce expirations and waste in the ADC
• Identifies, analyzes and evaluates data from a variety of sources as assigned.
• Practice and adhere to the “ Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement”
• Perform other duties as assigned

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor degree preferred
• National Certification (CPhT) required. Active Registered pharmacy technician, as per State requirements, in good standing with the appropriate State Board of Pharmacy
• Minimum of 3 years of hospital experience preferred
• Supervisor experience preferred

Benefits

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital is a 140+ bed acute care hospital. For over 60 years, we have served Columbia, Hamilton, and Suwannee counties and surrounding communities. Our hospital is a part of HCA Healthcare North Florida. We offer medical and surgical programs including 24-hour emergency care, heart care, interventional cardiology, orthopedics, cancer care, and imaging and rehabilitation services. We are an Accredited Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission. We are an Accredited Chest Pain Center by the American College of Cardiology. We have achieved Disease Specific Certification in the treatment of Sepsis by the Joint Commission. For 20 years in a row, we have been named the area's Best of the Best Hospital. We were named an employer of choice in 2019 by the Lake City-Columbia County Chamber of Commerce.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Pharmacy Technician Specialist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

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