Pharmacy Technician Trainee

Responsibilities

• Fosters a positive work culture centered on honesty, openness, and integrity
• Builds and maintains relationships with members of the health care team by placing an emphasis on open communication
• Builds and maintains relationships with members of the health care team by building department morale
• Strives to ensure the success of the team as a whole over personal success
• Effectively balances the responsibilities of the team and individual team members
• Demonstrates a commitment to the development and achievement of common goals within the department and hospital system
• Integrates and demonstrates Expectations for Personal and Service Excellence to guide professional behaviors
• Demonstrates a commitment to the improvement of patient care, customer satisfaction, and team member performance
• Encourages and provides constructive feedback to identify opportunities for improvement within the department
• Prepares and distributes medication products to fulfill medication orders
• Accurately compounds sterile and non-sterile products, including chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition, in accordance with facility, state, and federal laws and regulations
• Answers the telephone, identifying self and department and directing calls to appropriate personnel in a professional and courteous manner
• Safeguards the appropriate and adequate medication inventory by restocking, rotating stock, removing expired medications, packaging medications, and ordering supplies
• Accurately performs data entry for patient billing
• Maintains a neat, clean, orderly, and secure department
• Ensures the appropriate preparation and dispersal of medications in accordance with facility, state, and national laws and regulations
• Prioritizes the importance of preventing errors, accidents, and infections within the workplace and reports potential or actual concerns immediately
• Complies with Iowa Board of Pharmacy requirements for technician in training

Qualifications

• Must be high school graduate/equivalent or higher level of education
• Must be registered with the Iowa Board of Pharmacy as a Pharmacy Technician Trainee prior to first day of work
• Must then maintain a current Pharmacy Technician Trainee registration and be in good standing with the Iowa Board of Pharmacy
• Must obtain registration as a Certified Pharmacy Technician prior to the expiration of the technician trainee registration with the Iowa Board of Pharmacy
• Must be able to proficiently read, write and speak English
• Must have strong math skills, with some basic algebra
• Some college training preferred
• Experience in a hospital or retail pharmacy desirable
• Experience in a health care facility desirable
• Proficient in using computer systems