Lead Pharmacy Technician - Sharp Memorial Hospital

What You Will Do

• Assists Pharmacy management in providing pharmaceutical services that support the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.
• Works in partnership with the leadership team in support of day-to-day operations and supervises the pharmacy technician staff.
• Is responsible for ongoing performance improvement projects.
• Provides operational, developmental, and quality assurance / improvement support for technician programs.

Required Qualifications

• 3 Years Pharmacy Technician experience in hospital pharmacy environment or equivalent healthcare setting.
• California Pharmacy Technician License (TCH) - CA State Board of Pharmacy - REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 Year In a leadership role.
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) - Pharmacy Technician Certification Board - PREFERRED

Essential Functions

• Department efficiency and effectiveness:
• In collaboration with management, supervises and regularly interacts with pharmacy technicians to assess staffing and workload needs to assure the operational efficiency and quality of services.
• Promotes staff accountability and empowerment through formal and informal mechanisms.
• Maintains staff productivity.
• Prepares schedule for technical staff.
• Serves as the primary interface with internal customers for resolving Tech operations issues.
• Communicates pertinent issues to the leadership team and proactively proposes solutions to improve department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Human resources management:
• Aids in staff interviewing, hiring, promotion decisions and evaluation of personnel; including coaching, counseling, development and corrective action as appropriate.
• Ensures timely completion of staff performance appraisals, competencies (new hire and annual/on-going) and regulatory requirements.
• Manages staff time and attendance, ensures lunch and break relief is provided to all staff.
• Supports workplace safety and ergonomic improvement initiatives; assists with enforcing compliance with measures designed to reduce employee injury, including ensuring injuries and workers' compensation claims are reported and filed in a timely manner.
• Medication safety and use:
• Proactively identifies potential medication safety improvement opportunities such as look alike, sound alike medication storage and packaging issues, delivery / storage / security related issues, inventory management issues etc. and works with Pharmacy Administration to develop, implement and monitor programs to address these medication use / safety surveillance initiatives.
• Prepares performance improvement, monitoring reports and provides data as required by pharmacy management.
• Leads performance improvement projects utilizing HRO principles and lean six sigma tools and concepts. Projects to have clear project timeline with outcomes metrics and both a communication and sustainment plan.
• Project management:
• Provides ongoing support and performance improvement recommendations for:
• Existing and new information technology projects as they arise (i.e. CPOE, Bedside Barcoding, OnBase etc.).
• Regulatory improvements, including USP797, USP795, USP800 initiatives.
• Medication Safety initiatives/efforts. Provides implementation and ongoing support for automation technologies (EMR, Pyxis MedStation, Pyxis C2 Safe, OnBase, Automix, Euclid Re-packaging, PDX, etc.).
• Regulatory requirements:
• Collaborates with Director, Managers, Senior Specialists, Operations and Clinical Supervisors, Information Systems to standardize, update and/or maintain policies and procedures. Assists in the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
• Assists with attaining and maintaining compliance with Licensing Board, Federal, State, Regulatory and Safety requirements and TJC.
• Monitors completion of quality assurance documentation required by regulatory agencies, relays compliance or documentation issues to the Pharmacy Director and follows up with corrective measures.
• Holds direct reports accountable to all regulatory requirements and Sharp Policies and procedures.
• Training and education:
• Actively contributes with the development and ongoing implementation of orientation programs for new pharmacy technicians and orients new pharmacists to pharmacy technician programs.
• Responsible for the evaluation and monitoring of staff training needs and for the training of technical staff.
• Provides technical guidance to the staff.
• Provides computer training and serves as a department resource as needed.
• Professional Development:
• Attends professional educational opportunities as appropriate.
• Maintains current knowledge of pharmacy services topics by attending conferences and reviewing journals and literature.
• Incorporates new information/best practices into work environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Computer skills are preferred, especially in the application of pharmacy computer systems currently used, Microsoft office programs, (i.e. Word, Excel, Teams etc).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Company Information

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

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