Assists in the preparation, dispensing, and delivery of medications under pharmacist supervision, including non-sterile and sterile compounding, inventory management, and compliance with regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
Assists in the preparation of medication orders including transcription, workflow management, automation utilization, and medication readiness for non-sterile compounding, checking, dispensing, and delivery
Distributes medications to designated areas and returns unused, discontinued, or damaged doses to the pharmacy
Supports inventory management activities including receipt, storage, security, and inspection
Adheres to regulatory requirements and quality assurance standards, completing documentation and maintaining records in compliance with standard procedures
Provides excellent customer service to patients, other staff and ancillary departments while maintaining confidentiality under HIPAA
Requirements
High School Diploma/GED or education equivalency for licensing
Entry-level pharmacy technician assisting in medication preparation, compounding, automation, inventory, and patient service under pharmacist supervision.
Responsibilities
Assist in the preparation of medication orders including transcription, workflow management, automation utilization, and medication readiness for non-sterile compounding, checking, dispensing, and delivery.
Distribute medications to designated areas and return unused, discontinued, or damaged doses to the pharmacy.
Utilize automation to ensure medications are secured and in-date in their area of use.
Support inventory management activities including receipt, storage, security, and inspection.
Ensure inventory areas are clean, rotated, in-date, and properly labeled.
Requirements
High School Diploma/GED or education equivalency for licensing
The Pharmacist II adjusts and dispenses medication to patients and drives the compliant and efficient operations of the pharmacy within a hospital system environment.
Compensation
Anticipated hourly range: $50.10 per hour - $71.10 per hour.
Responsibilities
Applies expert knowledge of drugs and related protocols, to verify physician orders for medications using pharmacy information system.
Checks drug and dose in relation to stated patient issue and addresses automated alerts from the system regarding drug type, dose, and other metrics.
Supervises Pharmacy Technicians to ensure the compliant and efficient operations of the pharmacy.
Checks all work of Pharmacy Technicians in line with State Boards of Pharmacy regulations and provides guidance on complex prescriptions, pharmacy automation systems, orders, and other issues.
Adjusts dosages based on established protocols for each drug, ensuring that dosages are appropriate for the patient’s condition and in light of other medications the patient is using and completes clinical tasks related to antimicrobial stewardship.
Supervisory oversight of pharmacy technician operations, including staffing, scheduling, hiring, performance management, training, automation, inventory, regulatory readiness, and process improvement.
Compensation
Salary Range: $35.86 - $49.54 per hour
Responsibilities
Provide supervisory oversight of pharmacy technician operations
Staff and schedule pharmacy technicians
Hire and manage performance of pharmacy technicians
Develop and deliver training and competency programs
Manage pharmacy automation and inventory systems
Requirements
High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
Current CA Pharmacy Technician license
Certificate from college or technical school
Pharmacy Technician Board Certified or ability to obtain within six months
Nice to have: Advanced or specialty certification such as sterile compounding (CSPT)
The Pharmacy Automations System Administrator is a registered and certified pharmacy technician who is responsible for providing specialized technical support, implementation and/or upgrades, monitoring, user training and project management of pharmacy systems.
Responsibilities
Collaborates with staff and/or vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware/software errors by running diagnostics, prioritizing and assessing impact of issues.
Supervises, trains, directs and serves as an internal resource for pharmacy technicians to support department operations.
Performs all pharmacy technician roles and functions including coverage of inventory procurement responsibilities as needed.
Monitors Quality and Assurance processes involving automation systems and prepares drug utilization trends analysis and reports to maintain safe and optimal operational efficiency.
Collaborates with colleagues and other management team members to solve cross departmental problems.
Assists with preparation of an annual budget and manages the designing and implementation of stewardship, cost control, and restriction/surveillance programs.
Compensation
$121,971.20 - $226,865.60
Responsibilities
Assists with preparation of an annual budget
Manages the designing and implementation of stewardship, cost control, and restriction/surveillance programs
Creates ROI proposals to justify operational programs, capital resources, and new resource needs
Evaluates and analyzes procedures to improve medication utilization and patient outcomes
Tracks, monitors, and communicates operational, clinical quality, and financial outcomes
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