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Honor Health

Nonprofit healthcare system providing comprehensive care

Advanced Practice Pharmacy Tech

PharmacyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeScottsdale, AZ, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • Pharmacy technician experience or completion of a formalized technician training program is required.
  • A license by the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy as a Licensed Pharmacy Technician is required.

Responsibilities

  • Practice within all State Board of Pharmacy, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Food and Drug Administration rules and regulations.
  • Prepare prescription orders, including sterile and non-sterile preparations, hazardous and non-hazardous preparations, and unit-dose oral solids; ensure pre-packaging records are complete.
  • Dispense medications.
  • Use automated dispensing machines, including Lynx and Pyxis, and prepare, stock, and restock automated dispensing machine cart fills.
  • Run reports from automated dispensing machines and enter required documentation in them.
  • Retrieve narcotics and follow requirements for controlled-substance distribution.
  • Assist the inventory specialist in maintaining drug inventory levels; process credits and returns to wholesalers; stock and restock medications.
  • Monitor expiration dates and unit inspections using quality-assurance checklists, maintain clean workspaces in sterile and non-sterile areas, and complete temperature-control logs.
  • As an IV room pharmacy technician, compound sterile or non-sterile pharmaceuticals, including chemotherapy, total parenteral nutrition, and IV admixtures; meet departmental quality-assurance requirements, including expiration-date checks, refrigerator-temperature monitoring, laminar-air-flow-hood cleaning documentation, equipment-calibration verification, and viable and non-viable environmental sampling; ensure medication orders and sterile compounding meet departmental guidelines; and assist with stocking IV-room medications and supplies, including total parenteral nutrition additives and chemotherapy.
  • As an inventory specialist technician, perform daily purchasing and inventory control; review stock for ordering, procurement, or requisition through wholesalers and vendors; ensure proper storage, quality, and integrity; validate invoices for order accuracy, completeness, contract compliance, cost management, and legal and regulatory compliance; maintain inventory levels based on budgetary goals; communicate critical shortages and high-dollar or high-volume drugs; coordinate drug recalls and transfer logs; manage hospital formulary inventory; and use Pharmogistics to optimize pharmacy distribution and inventories.
  • As an automation technician, oversee hospital automation equipment and serve as a resource for technology projects, upgrades, and equipment installation; assist pharmacists by establishing operational workflows for automated dispensing machines, unit-dose packagers, and technology such as DoseEdge.
  • As an ambulatory infusion clinic pharmacy technician, oversee daily medication-use activities and provide pharmacy services in an ambulatory setting; prepare and deliver sterile and hazardous medications, complex IV admixtures, chemotherapy, and biotherapy admixtures; plan purchasing and inventory control in compliance with rules and regulations; and collaborate with physicians and clinical staff on drug dosing, standardization, and quality metrics.
  • As a retail or specialty pharmacy technician, assist under pharmacist supervision with receiving written or electronic prescriptions, filling and dispensing prescriptions, responding to patient queries, maintaining records, and assisting with patient insurance authorization and manufacturer assistance programs.
  • As a medication reconciliation technician, obtain, verify, and document medication histories in the electronic medical record accurately and promptly in compliance with procedures and regulatory standards; under pharmacist supervision, interview patients, family members, or significant others to obtain medication histories for emergency-department patients being admitted to an inpatient unit or direct inpatient admissions; and interact professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and hospital staff.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

  • Three years of pharmacy technician experience in retail, hospital, infusion clinics, medication reconciliation, or wholesaler settings.
  • Certified Pharmacy Technician certification issued by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board or ExCPT.
  • Pharmacy technician diploma.
  • Completion of a formalized technician training program.

About the Company

Honor Health

Nonprofit healthcare system providing comprehensive care

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Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Scottsdale, AZ
Founded
2013

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