Pharmacy Technician (Float Pool)

Essential Responsibilities

• Knows and complies with all quality, safety, and emergency policies.
• Demonstrates quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice with patients, colleagues, providers, and leadership.
• Ensures patient safety in medication preparation, procedures, infection prevention, and fall prevention using two patient identifiers and procedural time outs.
• Reports safety hazards, accidents, incidents, and unsafe conditions promptly.
• Verifies prescription refill requests by reviewing original forms and patient ID to check authorization based on refills remaining and time requirements.
• Contacts medical office personnel by phone or message for refill authorization as needed.
• Typing prescription labels from written instructions, including patient name, physician, medication name, strength, usage, prescription number, date, and initials.
• Places labels and forms in specified locations for processing.
• Selects medications for orders, counts or pours dosages into containers, affixes labels and refill instructions.
• Calculates prescription costs using standard pricing, completes sales receipts, and places orders for Pharmacist evaluation.
• Maintains inventory of prescription medications at established levels and per storage procedures.
• Conducts periodic audits, notifies supervisor of reordering needs.
• Checks and stores prepackaged medications from warehouse, restocks shelves, and keeps inventory and work area neat.
• Balances daily revenue by totaling cash register and reconciling cash, checks, and credit card receipts.
• Reviews inconsistencies with personnel, reconciles totals, summarizes data on cash reports, packages money, prepares bank deposits.
• Assists supervisor in coordinating workflow and activities of Pharmacy Clerks based on patient volume and staffing.
• Provides direction, guidance, and assistance to Clerks.
• Maintains security by monitoring cashiering for security and controls.
• Affords assistance in resolving daily operations problems.

Technical Skills

• Verifies prescriptions and refills using patient ID and authorization rules.
• Typing accurate prescription labels with all required details.
• Counts, pours, and labels medications precisely.
• Calculates costs and completes sales receipts.
• Manages inventory, conducts audits, restocks shelves.
• Balances cash, reconciles transactions, prepares deposits.
• Operates cash register securely.

Functional Skills

• Captures and coordinates Pharmacy Clerk workflows and provides guidance.
• Maintains operational efficiency and security by monitoring operations.
• Ensures compliance with safety protocols including two identifiers and time outs.
• Reports hazards and incidents promptly.
• Adapts to float pool assignments across locations.

Behavioral Skills

• Puts patient needs first and builds productive relationships.
• Sets priorities based on patient circumstances, problems, and expectations.
• Responds quickly to meet needs and resolve issues.
• Works effectively under supervision with colleagues and leadership.
• Handles variable shifts and travel flexibly.

Basic Qualifications

• High school graduation or equivalent.
• Pharmacy Tech Certification (Colorado) or Provisional Pharmacy Tech Certification (Colorado).
• Minimum one year pharmacy technician experience, or one year as Pharmacy Clerk in Colorado, or completion of five-month pharmacy technician training program with community rotation, or national certification.

Additional Requirements

• Drug screen, health screen, background screen.
• Orientation approximately 2 weeks.
• 100% travel within float pool.
• No sponsorship or relocation available.