Pharmacy Technician Lead

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

401(k) plan with match

Education support

Job summary

HCA Florida West Hospital is seeking a Pharmacy Technician Lead to support pharmacy operations and education, manage the technician schedule, and contribute to staffing and service planning. You will solve operational issues, promote excellent patient and staff interactions, and help control costs while maintaining patient safety.

The role requires a CPhT certification, a Pharmacy Technician license, and a high school diploma or GED, with at least 1 year of experience in a pharmacy setting.

Qualifications

• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) credential required.
• Pharmacy Technician license required.
• High School Diploma or GED required.

Responsibilities

• Functions as resources for technicians, facility and pharmacy staff related to pharmacy support and education.
• Develops and maintains technician schedule and training program.
• Contributes to planning, organizing, staffing and directing technician services.
• Performs problem solving related to pharmacy operations.
• Promotes a positive customer oriented demeanor to patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.
• Controls costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care, or services.
• Reports potential patient safety issues using the occurrence reporting system.
• Ensures accurate pharmacy billing.

Education

CPhT Certified Pharmacy Technician

PharmTech Pharmacy Technician License

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Pharmacy Technician Lead today with HCA Florida West Hospital.

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Functions as resources for technicians, facility and pharmacy staff related to pharmacy support and education.
• Develops and maintains technician schedule and training program.
• Contributes to the planning, organizing, recruiting, retaining, staffing, directing, and controlling of all technician services.
• Performs problem solving related to questions and issues related to pharmacy operations.
• Promotes and displays a positive customer oriented demeanor to patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.
• Actively seeks ways to control costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care, or the services delivered.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the occurrence reporting system. Uses system to report potential patient safety issues.
• Responsible for assuring pharmacy billing is accurate.
• Performs studies for narcotics and other assigned medications and processes.
• Responsible for answering phone and window receiving. May also function as pharmacy technician for duties such as messenger, picking medications, first dose, refills, refiling automated carts, medication cart delivery, packaging unit does meds, bar coding meds, IV preparations, filling anesthesia carts, ordering supplies, ordering IV’s, checking wholesaler and direct orders, using the want book, recording borrow and loans, and inventory control.
• Uses Performance Improvement Plan to improve patient safety.

What qualifications you will need:

• (CPhT) Certified Pharmacy Technician
• (PharmTech) Pharmacy Technician License
• High School Graduate / GED

No Travel Required

1 years experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Florida West 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 West Hospital is a 515-bed facility. We are proud to be the areas leading health care facility in quality outcomes performance. We are the areas first Accredited Chest Pain Center and Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. Our hospital is the first in the state of Florida to have earned Atrial Fibrillation with Electrophysiology Services Accreditation. We have an Advanced Primary Stroke Center. We provide a specialized Emergency Department tailored to the needs of seniors and children. We have a Kid’s ER dedicated to our youngest patients. We are the area’s only comprehensive CARF-accredited physical rehabilitation hospital. Our facility has a behavioral health facility. We offer services including cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, oncology, and orthopedics. Other services that we offer include robotic-assisted surgery, critical care, and neurology/neurosurgery. We also offer urology, gastroenterology, obstetrics, and pulmonary and rehabilitative medicine.

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.

The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patients family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual.

- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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.