Pharmacy Technician Specialist

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, prescription, dental and vis​

Wellbeing support

PTO and disability coverage

401(k) match program

Tuition assistance and education

Job summary

HCA Florida West Hospital is seeking a Pharmacy Technician Specialist to support pharmacists in daily operations. You will ensure accurate filling of orders, maintain compliance, and assist with parenteral preparations in a high-quality care environment.

The role emphasizes teamwork, patient care, regulatory adherence, and ongoing competency development within our hospital pharmacy department.

Qualifications

• State registration as a Pharmacy Technician is required.
• High school diploma or GED is required.

Responsibilities

• Assist the pharmacist in filling physician orders and maintain priorities.
• Identify critical issues, prioritize workload, and communicate issues promptly.
• Greet patients entering the department and provide courteous service.
• Answer phones, triage inquiries, and route calls appropriately.
• Complete daily tasks with minimal supervision and maintain logs.
• Maintain medication storage and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Perform quality control and participate in performance improvement activities.
• Prepare and label parenteral medications using aseptic technique.
• Package and dispense unit-dose medications as assigned.
• Adhere to policies and ensure supervisor checks before dispensing.

Education

State Registration Pharmacy Technician

High School Graduate / GED

Job description

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

Job Summary and Qualifications

We are seeking a Pharmacy Technician Specialist for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Pharmacy Technician Specialist assists the pharmacist in the performance of the pharmacy daily routine.

• Accurately assists the pharmacist in filling physician orders and according to the department’s established priorities.
• Identifies critical issues, prioritize workload and communicate to appropriate personnel any issues in a timely manner.
• Greets people entering the department; smiles and makes direct eye contact; gives full attention to the person, maintains an even voice level.
• Answers telephones, answers questions and refers or transfers callers, answers telephones by the third (3rd) ring, identifies the department and name, speaks clearly, addresses the caller by name when appropriate.
• Complete daily work assignments with minimal supervision or direction.
• Accurately maintain required documentation logs.
• Responsible for maintain medication storage and security as per regulatory requirements throughout the organization.
• Performs quality control and performance improvement functions as assigned.
• Completes all education requirements and/or other activities needed to maintain competency.
• Accurately performs and documents monthly medication storage area inspections as assigned.
• Performs basic billing functions.
• Accurately performs required calculations.
• Accurately and safely compounds and labels medications and parenteral admixtures.
• Accurately packages and prepares pre-packages and unit dose medications for dispensing as assigned.
• Always utilizes aseptic techniques in the preparation of parenteral products.
• Complies with facility policy and procedures and regulatory requirements. Follows FL law for pharmacist supervision of technical duties as defined in regulations.
• Completes all duties assigned according to established policy and procedure.
• Adheres to all policies and procedures of the pharmacy/hospital.
• Requests assistance in the decision‑making process and problem‑solving as necessary.
• Retrieves data for Q.I. monitors and makes recommendations to improve care, resolve identified problems, and improve existing pharmacy programs.
• Always obtains a final check from the supervising pharmacist before releasing any prepared parenteral product, before releasing any packaged medication, or dispensing any medication.
• Compliant with all USP 797 shift/daily/monthly requirements (i.e. cleaning laminar airflow cabinets and biological safety cabinets, wearing personal protective equipment, etc.).
• Assists the Supervisor and Director of Pharmacy in developing, revising and improving departmental policies and procedures.
• Adapts personal schedule to meet hospital/departmental needs.
• Assists in coordinating the orientation of new employees, both professional and technical.
• Carries out any other duties deemed appropriate by the Director of Pharmacy.
• Attends and participates in monthly departmental staff meetings and is responsible for information communicated at the meetings.
• Performs daily ADC routines as assigned (i.e. restocks, outdates, discrepancy resolution, loading and unloading, etc.).
• Is familiar with adult crash carts, pediatric emergency bags, nursery crash cart, ED pediatric crash cart.
• Appropriately and timely notifies the pharmacy inventory manager of products that need to be reordered.
• Processes medication returns and restocking to the pharmacy.
• Replenishes ADCs, emergency cart trays, medication kits, medication boxes and floor stock accurately and as needed.
• Accurately performs inventory functions in RXMS system.
• Accurately transports medications and other pharmacy supplies in a timely manner to the appropriate area.
• Provide basic technical support for automated dispensing machines and other pharmacy computer systems.
• Prepares all work records needed for the day at their designated times including the discontinued, transfers, and discharged lists of parenteral preparations and efficiently processes these reports before they are dispensed to the patient care areas.
• Complies with ongoing processes to monitor outdates as per policy and procedures.
• Performs receiving and check in of medication/supply orders as defined in policy and notifies the pharmacy purchaser/buyer of any shortages, overages or damages of products.
• Manages drug supplies in a cost effective manner and identifies opportunities to minimize waste.
• Practice and adhere to the 'Code of conduct' philosophy and 'Mission and Value Statement'.
• Key‑punches all charges accurately and in a timely manner.
• Reconciles billing documents daily with meditech and patient accounting.
• Reviews high cost charge report daily for charge discrepancies.
• Places medication order in the pharmacy buyer’s absence.

What qualifications you will need:

• State Registration Pharmacy Technician
• High School Graduate / GED

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 benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs 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 support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for 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 (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida West Hospital is a 515‑bed facility. We are proud to be the area's leading health care facility in quality outcomes performance. We are the area's 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.

"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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