Specialty Pharmacy Technician I - Full Time

Responsibilities

• Prepare sterile medications, including non-hazardous intravenous (IV) admixtures and other sterile products, following established protocols and in compliance with USP standards.
• Maintain aseptic techniques throughout the compounding process to minimize contamination and ensure patient safety.
• Conduct routine cleaning, testing, and monitoring of compounding equipment, cleanrooms, and laminar airflow hoods to ensure optimal performance and adherence to quality standards.
• Manage and monitor inventory of sterile compounding drugs and supplies, ensuring adequate stock levels and proper storage conditions.
• Maintain accurate and detailed records of compounding activities, including batch records, logs, and quality control documentation.
• Collaborate effectively with pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to meet the needs of patients and ensure the timely delivery of medications.
• Adhere to all safety protocols and regulations, personal protective equipment (PPE) use, and waste disposal.
• Stay current with industry trends, guidelines, and best practices related to sterile compounding through ongoing education and training.
• Prepare uncomplicated and/or complicated parenteral mixtures for non-hazardous preparations in the finished form such as large volume, small volume, infusion syringe, infusion pump or other modality as required.
• Delivers controlled substances and other medications to nursing units' automated medication dispensing cabinets (ADC) timely and accurately.
• Prepares medications and subsequently loads and unloads medication into ADC with appropriate bar code scanning.
• Maintains all necessary paperwork, legal documents, and records for all medications prepared for administration.
• Assumes responsibility for performance of 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.
• Affords assistance to licensed pharmacists to formulate, label and dispense medications and other health care products in accordance with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
• Minimum 1 year of hospital or similar experience.
• Strong knowledge of aseptic techniques, USP standards, and compounding equipment.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and compliance standards.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining a sterile environment.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Proficiency in using software and computer applications such as EPIC.
• Strong knowledge of brand/generic medications.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred

• Minimum 1 year of sterile compounding experience.
• Pharmacy Technician License.
• PTCB or ExCPT Certification Required within 180 days of start of employment with the following exceptions: Hired prior to January 2024 Actively enrolled in ACPE accredited school of pharmacy / another allied health program or hired before 1-1-24.
• Cert Compounded Sterile Preparation Tech.
• NPTA Sterile Compounding Pharmacy Tech Certification.