Pharmacy Technician III

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Town of La Grange (NY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks an Inpatient Pharmacy Technician to support pharmacy services by assembling and distributing medications under direct supervision of pharmacists.

You will assist with ordering, receiving, storage, distribution and monitoring of medication use, including non-sterile and sterile compounding per USP standards, under supervision. Registration with the KY Board of Pharmacy is required within 30 days of hire.

Qualifications

• Registration with KY Board of Pharmacy within 30 days of hire.
• Familiarity with non-sterile compounding per USP 795.
• Familiarity with sterile compounding per USP 797.

Responsibilities

• Greets health care providers and patients by phone or in person and routes drug information to a pharmacist.
• Delivers medication to units accurately and promptly and maintains safe storage and handling.
• Handles controlled substances in accordance with policies and procedures and maintains documentation.
• Assists in ordering, receiving, storage, distribution and monitoring of medications under supervision.
• Prepares simple non-sterile compounding and sterile compounds per guidelines, under pharmacist verification.

Education

KY Board of Pharmacy registration within 30 days

Job description

Summary Job Description: Position Summary The Inpatient Pharmacy Technician is a certified pharmacy technician position who supports pharmacy services by assembling and participating in the distribution of medications. This position will assist the department’s professional staff, under direct supervision, in numerous aspects of ordering, receiving, storage, distribution, and monitoring medication use.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Greets health care providers and patients in person or by phone; answering questions and requests when appropriate; refers drug information calls to a pharmacist.
• Adheres to infection control policies and protocols and maintains a safe and clean pharmacy, while also maintaining a neat and orderly work area.
• Delivers medication to appropriate unit in an accurate timely fashion.
• Handling of controlled substances in accordance with pharmacy department policies and procedures.
• Provides appropriate documentation as required.
• Attends and contributes to the content of meetings and committees as assigned.
• Prepares simple non-sterile compounding in accordance with department guidelines and applicable USP 795 standards utilizing aseptic technique for final verification by a pharmacist
• Maintains a working knowledge of appropriate regulatory body and federal/state laws and regulations for nonsterile compounding and sterile compounding.
• Prepares sterile compounds (hazardous and nonhazardous) in accordance with department guidelines and applicable USP 797 standards, local and federal regulations and utilizing strict aseptic technique for final verification by a pharmacist.

Minimum Education and Training 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.

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.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMMATION 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.

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