Clinical Pharmacy Technician: Precision, Compliance & Care

Medical City Healthcare; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HCA Healthcare in Fort Worth, TX is seeking a pharmacist to support medication storage, accuracy checks, regulatory compliance, and daily operational documentation across the network.

You will perform automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) management, parenteral compounding, audits, and medication reconciliation while partnering with hospital staff to ensure safe, efficient patient care and accurate inventory control.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Interacts in person and by phone with hospital personnel politely and appropriately.
• Accurately maintains required documentation logs
• Complies with facility policy and procedures and regulatory requirements
• Responsible for maintaining medication storage and security as per regulatory requirements throughout the organization
• Accurately performs audits (i.e. anesthesia, overrides, etc.) as assigned
• Performs quality control and performance improvement functions as assigned
• Accurately performs and documents monthly medication storage area inspections as assigned
• Performs administrative billing functions
• 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 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
• Accurately transports medications and other pharmacy supplies in a timely manner to appropriate areas
• Accurately fills orders in the pharmacy
• Process medication returns and restocking to the pharmacy
• Proficient in automated dispensing systems
• Performing daily ADC routines as assigned (i.e. restocks, outdates, discrepancy resolution, loading and unloading, etc.)
• Troubleshoots ADC issues. (i.e. orders not coming across, drawer failures, medication jams, communication failures, etc.)
• Able to reconfigure Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADC).
• Able to perform ADC build and set up functions
• Under direction will adjust medication Min & Max
• Utilizes the Medications Not Loaded report to load appropriate Medications in ADC
• Under direction will perform ADC expiration Audits
• 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
• Accurately packages and prepares medications for dispensing as assigned
• Appropriately and timely notifies the pharmacy inventory manager of

Job description

HCA Healthcare in Fort Worth, TX is seeking a pharmacist to support medication storage, accuracy checks, regulatory compliance, and daily operational documentation across the network.

You will perform automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) management, parenteral compounding, audits, and medication reconciliation while partnering with hospital staff to ensure safe, efficient patient care and accurate inventory control.