Pharmacy Buyer

Frankfort Regional Medical Center; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with match

Education assistance

Job summary

Frankfort Regional Medical Center is seeking a Pharmacy Buyer to support medication procurement, inventory control, and distribution within our hospital pharmacy. The role involves coordinating with pharmacists, technicians, and suppliers to ensure accurate and timely medication deliveries.

Join our team in Frankfort, KY, as part of HCA Healthcare, and contribute to high-quality patient care in a leading regional medical center with extensive benefits and career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• CPhT Certified Pharmacy Technician
• PharmTech Pharmacy Technician License
• High School Graduate / GED

Responsibilities

• Acts as courier for retrieving and delivering meds and restocking cabinets.
• Answers telephone, takes messages, refers routine questions to a licensed pharmacist.
• Process wholesaler orders, returns and invoice payments.
• Assist the lead technicians and DOP in maintaining security and scheduling.
• Assist the Director in drug procurement, receiving, storage, and inventory control.
• Function in a technician capacity as scheduling and patient need demands.
• Fills med orders, refills carts, and prepares IV medications.
• Complete check tech checks for floor stock medications.
• Repackages medications (unit dose) for pharmacist review.
• Performs clerical duties – drug charges, reports, filing, and computer procedures.
• Maintain designated work areas and participate in performance improvement activities.
• Process narcotic orders and maintain DEA/state documentation.
• Organizes drug returns and reconciles payments vs. checks received.

Education

CPhT Certification

PharmTech License

High School Diploma

Job description

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) Pharmacy Buyer you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Frankfort Regional Medical Center which is part of the nations leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Acts as a courier for retrieving and deliveringmed orders, medications, restock automatic dispensing cabinets, and any required paperwork or filing.
• Answers telephone, takes messages, answers routine non-clinical questions and refers telephone orders or clinical questions to a licensed pharmacist.
• Process wholesaler orders, returns and invoice payment by current method.
• Perform some secretarial functions. Assists the lead technicians.
• Assists the DOP in maintaining security of the pharmacy and scheduled drug control throughout the hospital.
• Assists the Director in drug procurement, receiving, storage, inventory control and floor stock control.
• Is familiar with the operation of the department. Must be able to function in an appropriate technician capacity, as scheduling and patient need demands.
• Fills med orders, refills carts, and floor stock, mixes IV medications for the Admixture service.
• Can complete check tech check for floor stock medications.
• Repackages (unit dose) medications for checking pharmacist.
• Performs clerical duties – drug charges, completes reports, filing, computer procedures.
• Maintain designated work areas and equipment in clean and orderly condition.
• Participates in performance improvement activities.
• Process narcotic orders and maintain all required DEA and state documentation.
• Organizes drug returns for wholesaler, or expired med returns, and reconciles amount to be received vs. checks received.
• Assists the DOP in developing and maintaining an accurate filing system by removing old reports and preparing for storage.
• Supervises and maintains inventory control processes and track cost savings for all ongoing and new SMAT initiatives.
• Keeps pharmacy technician registration current and provides DOP with most current copy for employee file

What qualifications you will need:

• (CPhT) Certified Pharmacy Technician
• (PharmTech) Pharmacy Technician License
• High School Graduate / GED

Benefits

Frankfort Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms 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 supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor 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.

Frankfort Regional Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services for over 40 years. We give patients access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 170+ bed hospitalÂis one of the regions leading acute care facilities in Central Kentucky. Frankfort Regional has built an excellent reputation for outstanding subspecialty services. In addition, we have an exceptional network of quality primary care physicians in both family practice and internal medicine. We are consistently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky.

At Frankfort Regional Medical Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds 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.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.