Pharmacy Technician

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Kissimmee (FL); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Time away from work

401(k) with match

Education support

Job summary

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to support the pharmacy team under the supervision of the Clinical Pharmacist. You will prepare and dispense prescribed medications, ensure barcoding accuracy, and participate in quality control and inventory activities to keep medications available for caregivers.

We value proactive communication, patient-centered care, and adherence to safety and infection control standards.

Qualifications

• Pharmacy Technician License or Vocational School Graduate or High School Diploma / GED required.

Responsibilities

• Under supervision, prepares and dispenses prescribed medications accurately and timely.
• Ensures medications are bar-coded and barcode is recognized by the Meditech system.
• Performs quality control and auditing to ensure medications are available to caregivers.
• Assists with inventory to ensure necessary supplies and stock for daily operations.
• Maintains proactive communications with colleagues and the healthcare team.
• Contributes to patient-centered care and a quiet healing environment.
• Follows procedures to report patient safety issues and medical errors.
• Supports departmental policies and infection control standards.
• Demonstrates professional appearance and acts as an ambassador for the organization.

Education

Pharmacy Technician License, or Vocational School Graduate, or High School Graduate / GED

Tools

Meditech barcode system

Job description

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a(an) Pharmacy Technician with HCA Florida Osceola Hospital you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Under the supervision and direction of the Clinical Pharmacist, prepares and dispenses prescribed medications, drugs and other pharmaceuticals in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensures that all medications are appropriately bar-coded prior to dispensing; verifies barcode is recognized by the Meditech computerized order entry system.
• Performs quality control and auditing functions to ensure that all medications are appropriately available to caregivers.
• Assists Coordinator Pharmacy Inventory in ensuring that the department has the necessary supplies, equipment and stock needed for daily operations.
• Maintains proactive and effective communications with colleagues, and other members of the healthcare team.
• Contributes to a culture of patient centered care by ensuring a quiet healing environment.
• Actively contributes to work toward hospital improvement meeting the core measures and service excellence goals.
• Continuously evaluates work process and design; understands role in ensuring quality/performance improvement, productivity, and service delivery to meet stakeholder needs.
• Performs duties in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, and recognized professional, quality, patient safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the occurrence reporting system. Uses system to report potential patient safety issues.
• Follows established guidelines for reporting a significant medical error or unanticipated outcome in the patients care which results in patient harm.
• Anticipates and responds quickly to patient needs as assigned within scope of practice.
• Acknowledges patients appropriately. Introduces self and others. Explains purpose of visit/care and communicates anticipated during to enhance patient experience. Uses key works at key times.
• Fosters positive first impression by ensuring all work areas are organized, clean and project a professional appearance.
• Promotes a professional image and acts as an ambassador inside and outside the organization. Takes ownership and demonstrates service excellence principles in all interactions with the patient, physician and others. Ensures patients safety, dignity and privacy at all times.
• Actively participates in improving operational efficiently, effectiveness and achievement of established goals/performance metrics.
• Optimizes use of supplies, equipment and services, ensuring a high level of clinical care at the lowest cost. Actively seeks ways to control costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care, or the services delivered.

What qualifications you will need:

• (PharmTech) Pharmacy Technician License, or Vocational School Graduate, or High School Graduate / GED

No Travel Required

No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, 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.

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital is a 404-bed tertiary care hospital. We are accredited by the Joint Commission and are a Level II Trauma Center. We are a teaching hospital in collaboration with UCF College of Medicine. Our hospital is conveniently and centrally located in the Heart of Kissimmee. We are only minutes from Orlando, St. Cloud, Celebration, and Poinciana. We are committed to enhancing the standard of healthcare by providing services including Emergency Care, Trauma Care, Pediatric ER, Heart & Vascular Institute, and Comprehensive Stroke Center. Other services include The Baby Suites Maternity Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level II, Women’s Services, Behavioral Health, Orthopedics & Spine, and a Graduate Medical Education Program. We expand our care to the community with our freestanding Emergency Department at Hunter’s Creek ER.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s 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.

There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it. - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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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.