Pharmacy Medication Reconciliation Technician

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; New Albany (IN); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in New Albany, IN is seeking a Pharmacy Medication Reconciliation Technician who is a certified pharmacy technician and can support inpatient pharmacy services by obtaining medication and allergy histories for admitted patients.

You will interview patients, families, call pharmacies and facilities, and relay information to pharmacists to help determine treatment plans during hospitalization and at discharge.

Qualifications

• Registration with Indiana Board of Pharmacy within 30 days of hire date if you are a new registrant.
• Nationally certified as a pharmacy technician.
• 6 months pharmacy experience required.

Responsibilities

• Obtain medication and allergy histories for patients admitted to the hospital.
• Interview the patient, patient family, calling pharmacies, long term care facilities and/or other providers.
• Communicate information to pharmacists and health care providers to determine treatment plans and medication orders during hospitalization and post discharge.

Skills

Pharmacy experience

Education

Indiana Board of Pharmacy registration within 30 days

National certification as a pharmacy technician

Job description

Summary Job Description: The pharmacy medication reconciliation technician is a certified pharmacy technician who supports pharmacy services by obtaining medication and allergy histories for patients that will be admitted to the hospital. Information is obtained by interviewing the patient, patient family, calling pharmacies, long term care facilities and/or other providers. The information obtained is communicated to pharmacists and health care providers to determine treatment plans and medication orders during hospitalization and post discharge from the hospital.

Requirements:

• Registration with Indiana Board of Pharmacy within 30 days of hire date if you are a new registrant. If previously registered, you must have registration upon hire.
• Nationally certified as a pharmacy technician.
• 6 months pharmacy experience required.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

EEO Statement:

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.