Pharmacy Technician

About the role

InfuCare Rx is a leading home infusion provider accredited by URAC and ACHC offering specialized care for patients needing IV therapy and specialty pharmacy services in the homecare setting. We foster an ethical, team-oriented, and high-quality work environment for our employees.

Responsibilities

• Assist the pharmacist with the preparation and dispensing of medications and supplies using appropriate techniques.
• Perform basic pharmaceutical calculations to obtain correct doses of medication.
• Demonstrate and incorporate principles of safety, sterile product processing, and infection control into daily activities as outlined in organization’s policies/procedures.
• Dispense products and record in pharmacy management software to generate delivery documents for prescriptions including tickets and labels.
• Ensure that a licensed pharmacist on duty properly checks all outgoing prescriptions prior to delivery and participate in patient outreach process.
• Aid in the selection, packing, and delivery of specialty infusion products and services on a patient-specific basis.
• Contact patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders to determine health, supply, or delivery matters and as needed. Confirm delivery based on company protocols.
• Aid in recording and maintaining of various pharmacy logs.
• Ensure that all pharmacy, preparation, and all surfaces are maintained in accordance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Adhere to appropriate safety and quality assurance practices.
• Comply with state and federal laws.
• Aids in product purchasing, inventory, and equipment management.
• Coordinates with suppliers and ensures the correct drug products are received from the wholesale company if requested. Verifies the accuracy of product orders received and checks prices against contract and schedule of charges.
• Aids in the system of tracking infusion pumps and medical equipment.
• Where applicable, aseptically prepares all sterile product requests for patients upon receipt of physician orders in accordance with established policies and procedures. Maintains appropriate logs and cleaning records of biomedical equipment. Carries out various quality assurance procedures and testing specific to sterile compounding as required. Assists with certification of staff and equipment specific to sterile compounding and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Current and in good standing state license in the state of employment required.
• Minimum of (2) years’ experience as a pharmacy technician preferred.
• Excellent communication skills including reading, writing, and speaking.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to compound, prepare, and dispense medications/supplies including clean room maintenance.
• Ability to record and maintain pharmacy records.
• Understand how to calculate and check for correct doses of medication.

Preferred

• Experience working in an acute or specialty infusion pharmacy.
• Experience working in a hospital pharmacy.
• Experience with advanced sterile compounding, (Chemo, TPN, Antibiotics plus other complex therapies).
• Completion of an accredited Pharmacy Technician training program certified as a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT - Pharmacy Tech Certification Board or ICPhT - Institute for the Certification of Pharmacy).

Physical Demands

To stand, walk, sit, talk, and hear; required to use hands to operate vehicles and office equipment; must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs; specific vision requirements for this job include: close, distance, and peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.