Pharmacy Technician

986 Pharmacy; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

986 Degrees Corporation, on behalf of 986 Pharmacies, is recruiting for a Pharmacy Technician at Santa Ana, CA. You will prepare medications under a pharmacist's direction, process prescriptions, and support home delivery.

Responsibilities include verifying prescriptions, entering data, maintaining patient profiles, sterile compounding, packaging, and operating robotic dispensers. California driver license and a high school diploma are required; Spanish language skills preferred.

Qualifications

• Valid California driver's license.
• High School Diploma or Equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify information; request missing details and retrieve patient records for pharmacist verification.
• Enter prescription information into the pharmacy system and retrieve data, including drug interactions as permitted by law.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles with lists of medications and notes for pharmacists.
• Transfer medications from vials to sterile syringes using aseptic techniques.
• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
• Supply and monitor robotic dispensing machines and label containers.
• Clean and maintain equipment and surfaces; log temperature records as required.
• Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications and affix labels.
• Prepare prescriptions for home delivery and manage delivery receipts; deliver to patients' homes or facilities as needed.

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job description

986 Degrees Corporation is recruiting on behalf of several 986 Pharmacies and affiliate locations. These 986 locations are the hiring entities, not 986 Degrees Corporation.

Hiring Locations:

• Santa Ana, CA (Retail Pharmacy)

Language Requirements:

Spanish

Job Summary:

Prepares medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications according to prescription orders.

Processing Prescriptions

• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate; requests missing information as appropriate and retrieves the patient’s pharmacy record(s) for verification by pharmacist. Process prescription refills to include refill confirmation when appropriate, review pending refills with the supervising pharmacist, generate refill documentation, and process third party claims adjudication.
• Enter prescription information into computer databases; accesses, processes, and retrieves data from the pharmacy system, including speed codes and drug interaction data, as state and federal laws permit.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients, and notations for pharmacists’ review.
• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions.
• Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers and label the containers.
• Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware and maintain all required temperature logs, according to prescribed methods.
• Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.
• Prepare prescriptions for home delivery; account for delivery receipts from driver for all delivered prescriptions; delivers medications to patients’ homes or medical facilities, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Valid California driver's license
• High School Diploma or Equivalent

Benefits We Offer:

• Paid Vacation Time
• Paid Sick Time
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match up to 4%
• Health Insurance Coverage, including Medical, Dental, and Vision

For questions regarding this position, please contact us at [phone].