Pharmacy Technician - Part Time
Overview
Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
Responsibilities
- Maintains accurate and appropriate inventories of medications and supplies.
- Safely and efficiently maintains drug inventory processes including rotation and restocking of drug dispensing areas with drugs and supplies needed to process patient medication orders.
- Communicates effectively with other team members, physicians, and patients.
- Prepares intravenous admixtures under the supervision of a registered pharmacist.
- Assists in accurately labeling and dispensing inpatient unit dose medications according to department policy.
- Delivers medications to patient care areas as needed.
- Compounds medication by means of weighing, measuring, mixing, blending, filtering, distilling, emulsifying, and titrating, according to standard pharmacy practices and department policy.
- Delivers and fills controlled substances and other medications to nursing units' automated medication dispensing cabinets (ADC) timely and accurately.
- Reconciles all narcotic discrepancies on a daily basis.
- Prepares medications and subsequently loads and unloads medications into ADC with appropriate barcode scanning.
- Answers phones according to established phone etiquette and directs calls to the proper personnel.
- Prepares and packages hazardous medications and other medications requiring special handling for subsequent administration to patients under the supervision of the pharmacist.
- Maintains all necessary paperwork, legal documents, and records for all medications, prepared for administration.
- Participates in departmental quality-assurance and safety activities for drug usage, infection control, and handling hazardous materials according to state/federal regulations and departmental policy.
- Assumes responsibility for performing job duties in the safest possible manner, to ensure personal safety and that of coworkers, and to report all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately to management.
- Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
- Effective oral and written English communication.
- Strong ability to multitask.
- Ability and willingness to work cooperatively with others.
- At least one year of pharmacy experience (outpatient or inpatient).
- Valid New Jersey Pharmacy Technician License.
- PTCB or ExCPT Certification Required within 6 months of start of employment with the following exceptions:
- Hired prior to July 2024
- Actively enrolled in ACPE accredited school of pharmacy / another allied health program
Compensation
Minimum rate of $23.13 Hourly
HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency for our team members. The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package.
Awards
- US News & World Report 2025 - HUMC - #1 Hospital in NJ & #1 in NY Metro Area
- US News & World Report 2025 - Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital - #1 Children’s Hospital in NJ and #3 Children’s Specialties in the Nation
- US News & World Report 2025 - JSUMC - #5 Hospital in NJ
- US News & World Report 2025 - John Theurer Cancer Center at HUMC - Ranked Nationally
- US News & World Report 2025 - HUMC - Best Hospitals Honor Roll
- Becker’s Hospital Review 2025 - 7 HMH Institutions Named Among Becker’s Top 100
- Newsweek 2025 - Hackensack Meridian Health - America’s Greatest Workplaces for Mental Well-Being 2025
- Newsweek 2025 - Best Hospitals USA - HUMC - #59