Pharmacy Technician I

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Bereavement Leave

Retirement with Company Match

Job summary

Baptist Health Lexington’s Department of Pharmacy Services is seeking a Pharmacy Technician I to join our hospital team in Lexington, KY. The role involves processing medication orders, delivering medications to nursing units, and supporting pharmacists during daily rounds and operations.

This position requires registration with the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy within 30 days of hire and obtaining National Pharmacy Tech Certification within 6 months.

Qualifications

• Accurately and efficiently processes and fills medication orders.
• Delivers medications from pharmacy to nursing units.
• Demonstrates leadership and critical thinking in daily tasks.
• Utilizes technology and automated dispensing systems effectively.

Responsibilities

• Accurately and efficiently processes and fills medication orders.
• Delivers medications from pharmacy to nursing units; returns items from nursing units as needed.
• Wholesale order processed and received correctly.
• Demonstrates leadership skills and critical thinking.
• Provides general assistance to pharmacist staff.

Skills

Leadership

Critical thinking

Technology literacy

Medication order processing

Education

Less than High School

National Pharmacy Tech Certification

Job description

Summary Job Description: Pharmacy Technician I Full-Time I Days & Nights Hospital Pharmacy I Lexington, KY The Department of Pharmacy Services of Baptist Health Lexington provides pharmaceutical services to patients across the continuum of care. These services include, but are not limited to verification of medication orders, drug distribution, sterile product preparation, hazardous drug preparation, and utilization of automated dispensing cabinets. In addition, decentralized pharmacists provide services such as management of pharmacy dosing consults, provision of drug information, therapeutic recommendations, and participation in daily multidisciplinary rounds.

Description

Accurately and efficiently processes and fills medication orders. Delivers medications from pharmacy to nursing units; returns items from nursing units as needed. Wholesale order processed and received correctly. Demonstrates leadership skills and critical thinking skills. Provides general assistance to pharmacist staff. Illustrates working knowledge of technology.

Requirements

• Less than High School.
• Registration with Kentucky Board of Pharmacy (KY hospitals), within 30 days of hire date if you are a new registrant.
• If previously registered, you must have registration upon hire.
• Must obtain National Pharmacy Tech Certification within 6 months.

Benefits

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match

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.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

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.

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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.

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