What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Technician position at Tustin Premier Pharmacy?
Part-time to full-time opening for an experienced pharmacy technician in the city of Orange.
- *Job Responsibilities
What you’ll do:
- Carefully prepare medications of the highest quality to meet the needs of individual patients
- Compound non-sterile medications including, but not limited to capsules, oral liquids, topical medications, tablets, or treats
- Label prescriptions and prepackage bulk medications
- Monitor inventory levels for re-order of depleting inventory or expiring chemicals, and receive additional inventory
- Perform daily, weekly and monthly cleaning using appropriate disinfectants and techniques
- Perform environmental monitoring and validation testing according to policies and procedures
- Utilize strong attention to detail, math skills, and extreme focus
- Meet or exceed metrics for creating prescriptions
- Help ensure pet owners and vets get their medicine in a timely fashion
** Assists the pharmacist with the preparation and dispensing of medications and supplies using appropriate techniques and following pharmacy policies and procedures.
Accurately calibrates equipment. Assists with recording and maintaining pharmacy temperature and cleaning logs.
Ensures that all pharmacy surfaces, laminar flow hoods and clean room are cleaned.
Understands and can perform basic pharmaceutical calculations in order to obtain correct doses of medications.
Prepares medications under the supervision of a pharmacist so they are accurately compounded. Ensures that a licensed pharmacist properly checks all compounding and packing. Adheres to appropriate safety and quality assurance practices.
Complies with state and federal laws. Speaks knowledgeably of the scope of services that are available through the pharmacy. Understands basic drug terminology and therapies/services provided.
Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information. Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Tustin Premier information.
Understands and complies with HIPPA. Participates in the process for assessing, managing, and reporting medication-related incidents and equipment error and/or failures.
Assists with the training and supervision of new pharmacy technicians. In all activities, complies with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements. Participates in on-call responsibilities of the pharmacy department if required. Completes all duties as assigned by manager or Pharmacist in Charge.
Excellent communication and problem solving skills, and a pleasant customer service attitude.
Must have current Pharmacy Technician license if required by state.
Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Basic Internet Explorer skills to include opening a browser, typing in URLs in the correct location, using a search engine, bookmarking a site, navigating using back/forward/stop buttons, and filling out forms online. Basic email skills, internet explorer (sending, receiving, and organizing communications).
Ability to lift a 50 lbs box from the floor to assist in stocking meds
3 years of experience compounding medications, aware of USP-800 compounding regulations
Multilingual is a plus
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: Up to $20.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
- What languages do you speak?
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- Pharmacy Technician Experience: 1 year (Preferred)
- Customer Service: 1 year (Preferred)
- compound non-sterile: 3 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Pharmacy Technician Certification (Preferred)
- PTCB Certification (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- Orange, CA: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $20