Pharmacy Technician

Facility

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center

Location

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Department

Pharmacy

Job Family

Professional

Work Shift

Summary

This position is accountable to work under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist and assist in the various activities of the pharmacy department to provide quality patient care. Pharmacy technicians will perform in accordance with established procedures and guidelines.

Major Job Functions

The following is a summary of the major essential functions of this job.  The incumbent may perform other duties, both major and minor, that are not mentioned below.  In addition, specific functions may change from time to time:

• Assist in medication preparation by selecting, counting, compounding, reconstituting, packaging, and labeling per established departmental guidelines.

• Maintain and replenish up-to-date inventory of medications and supplies stored.  Stock and replace emergency crash carts, drug boxes, as well as other specialty floor stocked items (RSI kits, NICU Transport Box, etc.) throughout the health system.

• Demonstrate competency and proficiency in telephone triage to provide excellent, prompt customer service always. Assist all health care team members while being courteous and professional at all times.  Assist in handling Intervention messages, and process medication requests  according to departmental procedures.

• Displays critical thinking, able to identify urgent situations and complete task at hand in a timely manner in order to eliminate patient care delays.

• Refill and deliver unit dose cart fill, pyxis batches, parenteral TPN’s, IV admixture, and any bulk stock items in a timely manner to the correct patient care area.

• Ensure all narcotics and stock outs are delivered in a timely manner to ensure no delays in patient care. 

• Carries assigned phone and is available to other pharmacy staff

• Demonstrate competency and proficiency with automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) drug distribution to refill and load noncontrolled and controlled substance medications to include processing outdates and removing soon to expire products. Perform ADC troubleshoot when needed and follow proper procedures when unable to resolve issue.

• Operate automated systems in his/her work site (e.g. compounder in IV room, Epic, traysafe, packager, carousel, CII safe etc.) 

• Able to perform sterile and non-sterile compounding, once trained, following all procedures as outlined by pharmacy. This includes cleaning, labeling, and direct compounding activities. 

• Perform nursing unit inspections as assigned and participate in the department’s surveillance program for eliminating expired medications from the health system.

• Demonstrate competency and proficiency in various job skills to work in various areas of the pharmacy. 

• Maintains and protects at all times the right to privacy of all patients and hospital employees as evidenced by the securing of confidential records and release of information to authorized persons only.

• Assists in precepting and training of new pharmacy technicians and pharmacy students.

• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

The following qualifications, or equivalents, are the minimum requirements necessary to perform the essential functions of this job:

Education and Formal Training: 

• High school diploma or equivalent required

• Registered with the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy or must do so within the first 30 days of hire 

• Completion of formal or NCBOP approved pharmacy technician program preferred

Work Experience: 

• Six-months to one-year work experience as a pharmacy technician preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required: 

• Ability to work various schedules including day, evenings and third shift to meet staffing needs

• Good communication skills with all customers of the health system

• Detailed oriented with an inherent quality for accuracy when performing activity within the department

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Ability to identify urgent situations and carry out tasks efficiently to eliminate delays in patient care

Physical Requirements: 

• Perform repetitive motion including bending, twisting, stooping, pushing, and pulling

• Must be able to lift a minimum of 10 pounds

• Must be able to see and read physician orders, medication labels, etc.

• Manual dexterity to use computer systems

• Ability to stand and walk for long periods of time and ability to climb stairs as needed

Required Licenses and Certifications

Pharm Tech - NC Board Of Pharmacy

Cape Fear Valley Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity