Pharmacy Technician - Full time Evening Shift - Jefferson Washington Township
Jefferson Health · Turnersville, NJ · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
About the role
The Pharmacy Technician works full‑time evenings (3 p.m.–11:30 p.m., Monday‑Friday, no weekends or holidays) assisting the Pharmacy Manager and staff pharmacists in preparing and filling medications for inpatient and outpatient services, maintaining inventory, performing billing functions, and ensuring proper documentation and safety.
Responsibilities
- Interacts with co‑workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
- Prepares drug orders from Physicians for review and dispensing by a Registered Pharmacist.
- Replenishes all Pyxis machines.
- Monitors and records refrigerator temperatures when filling, and documents corrective action taken if needed.
- Informs Pharmacy Manager of any ongoing issues.
- Counts, compounds and repackages pharmaceuticals using established procedures.
- Medication dispensing and distribution to patient areas; reorder and restock of pharmacy inventory; restock inventory in department and nursing unit and restock returns; evaluates stock for expired medications; performs necessary monitoring and documentation.
- Performs various billing/crediting functions to ensure proper billing of all medications dispensed to patients to comply with hospital finance policies.
- Ensures proper documentation of waste.
- Picks up Physician orders from team centers on a regular basis, and additionally as required by the Pharmacist.
- Performs light housekeeping duties such as arranging bins and stock neatly, removing items from bulk storage, dusting shelves, removing open boxes, keeping work areas neat and clean.
- Replenishes specialty and code carts; all restocking of carts is documented through the use of a sign out sheet, noting time,