Pharmacy Technician
About the role
InfuCare Rx is a leading home infusion provider accredited by URAC and ACHC. We offer specialized care for patients needing IV therapy and specialty pharmacy services in the homecare setting. Our work environment is ethical, team-oriented, and focuses on quality and success.
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 and 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 participates in patient outreach process.
- Absorb and assist with 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, supplies, or delivery matters and as needed. Confirm delivery based on company protocols.
- Absorb and assist with recording and maintaining of various pharmacy logs.
- Absorb and assist with ensuring that all pharmacy, preparation, and all surfaces are maintained in accordance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
- Absorb and assist with adhering to appropriate safety and quality assurance practices.
- Absorb and assist with complying with state and federal laws.
- Absorb and assist with assisting with product purchasing, inventory, and equipment management.
- Absorb and assist with coordinating with suppliers and ensuring the correct drug products are received from the wholesale company if requested.
- Absorb and assist with verifying the accuracy of product orders received.
- Absorb and assist with checking prices against contract and in the schedule of charges.
- Absorb and assist with coordinating with suppliers and ensuring the correct drug products are received from the wholesale company if requested.
- Absorb and assist with the system of tracking infusion pumps and medical equipment.
- Where applicable, aseptically prepare all sterile product requests for patients upon receipt of physician orders in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Absorb and assist with maintaining appropriate logs and cleaning records of biomedical equipment.
- Absorb and assist with carrying out various quality assurance procedures and testing specific to sterile compounding as required.
- Absorb and assist with assisting with certification of staff and equipment specific to sterile compounding and ensuring 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.
Benefits
InfuCare Rx is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, military status, marital status, citizenship/immigration status, sex (including pregnancy and relation conditions, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age (40 and older), disability, genetic information (including employer requests for, or purchase use, or disclosure of genetic tests, genetic services, or family medical history), retaliation for filing a charge, reasonably opposing discrimination, or participating in a discrimination lawsuit, investigation, or proceeding. Background checks and drug screens are part of our hiring process.