Correctional Pharmacy Tech: Precision Meds, Patient Impact

Maricopa County; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 29,618 - 40,294; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Excellent work-life balance

Growth opportunities

Low-cost healthcare for you and depend

On-site child care support

Job summary

Maricopa County is seeking a Certified Pharmacy Technician to ensure DEA and Arizona State Board compliance while handling medications for six jail clinics. You will support nurses and pharmacy technicians, receive meds from an off-site pharmacy, and organize stock across clinics.

You will manage controlled meds, reconcile inventories, order stock to PAR levels, and document refills and transfers. The role emphasizes teamwork, accuracy, and adherence to safety standards in a high-volume

Qualifications

• Current, unrestricted Pharmacy Technician certification and license issued by the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy.
• High School Diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with nursing teams, providers, and medication supply team to enhance medication workflows and troubleshoot medication-related problems.
• Manage medication, scan medications into the clinic from pharmacy vendor.
• Reconcile and receive medications, inventories clinic stock, and monitor for outdated medications.
• Order stock medications as needed to maintain established clinic PAR level.
• Assist clinic nurses with patient-specific medication refills, returns medications, and accurately documents findings and processes.
• Manage controlled medications for all CHS clinics by ordering replacement stock to maintain clinic par level, destroys abandoned patient-specific medications, audits all controlled medication sign-out sheets for compliance, monitors methadone sign-out sheets and shift counts to ensure clinics are within DEA guidelines.
• Work with contracted pharmacy to reduce fiscal waste of non-returnable medications, manages and records destruction of unused 340B medications.
• Manage the distribution and accountability of immunizations supplied by Public Health to ensure compliance with the Vaccines for Adults program.
• Maintains medications on provider cart by ordering replacement stock when needed and replacing outdated medication.
• Assists with medication transfer between clinics when needed.

Skills

Communication

Customer service

Mathematics

Education

Pharmacy Technician certification

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Maricopa County is seeking a Certified Pharmacy Technician to ensure DEA and Arizona State Board compliance while handling medications for six jail clinics. You will support nurses and pharmacy technicians, receive meds from an off-site pharmacy, and organize stock across clinics.

You will manage controlled meds, reconcile inventories, order stock to PAR levels, and document refills and transfers. The role emphasizes teamwork, accuracy, and adherence to safety standards in a high-volume