PHARMACY TECH - CERTIFIED

Summit Medical Center; Casper (WY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Medical Center in Casper, WY seeks a Certified Pharmacy Technician to assist in the hospital pharmacy, including medication preparation, dispensing, and inventory management under supervision of a licensed pharmacist.

The role emphasizes regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness, and quality assurance to maintain accurate records and ensure safe medication handling in a fast-paced care setting.

Responsibilities

• Medication Preparation and Dispensing: Prepare and distribute medications, including sterile and non-sterile compounding following precise formulas and aseptic technique.
• Inventory Management: Maintain and monitor drug inventory, order supplies, track medication usage, and ensure equipment and carts are stocked in operating rooms.
• Regulatory Compliance: Maintain accurate records for controlled substances and compounding activities, ensuring adherence to safety, storage, and handling guidelines.
• Emergency Preparedness: Prepare and maintain crash carts and emergency medication trays for urgent situations.
• Quality Assurance: Inspect medication storage areas, remove expired stock, and ensure proper storage conditions.

Job description

Description

Certified pharmacy technicians in a hospital setting performs a variety of clinical, technical, and administrative tasks under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist:

JOB SUMMARY

Department: Pharmacy

Reports to: Pharmacy Director

Key Responsibilities

• Medication Preparation and Dispensing: Prepare and distribute medications, including sterile and non-sterile compounding following precise formulas and aseptic technique.


• Inventory Management: Maintain and monitor drug inventory, order supplies, track medication usage, and ensure automated dispensing machines and anesthesia carts and operating rooms are properly stocked.


• Regulatory Compliance: Maintain accurate records for controlled substances and compounding activities, ensuring adherence to safety, storage, and handling guidelines.


• Emergency Preparedness: Prepare and maintain crash carts and emergency medication trays, ensuring readiness for urgent situation..


• Quality Assurance: Conduct routine inspections of medication storage areas, remove expired stock, and ensure proper storage conditions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


• While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to sit, converse, and listen; use hands to touch, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; and to reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.


• The employee must be able to lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds and be able to push/pull up to 50 pounds.


• The employee must be able to stand and/or walk at least five hours per day.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.