Job Title: Pharmacy Technician (Non-Certified) 

We are Hiring at University Hospital

Location: 530 South Jackson St  Louisville KY 40202

Shift Options: Varied Hours  PRN

The Pharmacy Technician (Non-Certified) provides daily supportive services for the Department of Pharmacy according to hospital policies and procedures and in compliance with Kentucky pharmacy laws and other regulatory agencies. The technician actively supports and participates in the department’s continuous quality improvement initiatives and competency assessments and demonstrates a commitment to customer service and patient safety. The technician responds to requests in a prompt and efficient manner.

Major job responsibilities include: distributes medications, unit-dose repackaging, kit/tray preparation, compounds non-sterile products, compounds sterile products as assigned, communicates with hospital staff, completes inspections, and reports unsafe practices to leadership.

The following activities are components of the position necessary to support the major job responsibilities:

Provide supportive services to the inpatient pharmacy
• Assists with filling, processing, and dispensing of medications by labeling medication, including bulk supplies, with proper ancillary labeling and bagging procedures, with final check performed by a pharmacist
• Answers phones according to established phone etiquette and triages calls to the proper personnel
• Charges and/or credits patients for medications used via the computer system
• Accurately and efficiently unit doses medications. This includes cleaning the compounding area, restocking and replacing supplies, documenting in the compounding record, and ensuring doses are correctly labeled and prepared for pharmacist verification
• Supports the drug inventory process including ordering, rotation, and restocking of drug dispensing areas with drugs and supplies needed to process patient medications orders.
• Ensures the maintenance of a clean and orderly work area, including a sterile environment
• Completes nursing unit and inventory inspections, as assigned.
• Restocks kits and crash cart trays as needed
• Monitors medication activity for potential drug diversion and reports any discrepancies to the pharmacist or pharmacy leadership
• Delivers medications, including controlled substances, to nursing units’ for emergent deliveries as necessary. Note: certification required to operate decentralized and centralized pharmacy automation.
• Assists with ensuring medications are delivered efficiently and accurately to patient care unit areas. Includes checking the tube system with each delivery, retrieving and transporting medications to the appropriate location.

• Prepares and packages hazardous medications and adheres to all safety measures for handling hazardous medications described in USP 795/797/800
• Utilizes aseptic technique following department policies and procedures when compounding sterile products as assigned by pharmacy leadership

Serve as a mentor to new pharmacy technicians, pharmacy technician students, and pharmacy students
• Provide guidance to IPPE pharmacy student rotations as necessary
• Precept pharmacy technician students

Execute hospital and pharmacy policies and procedures
• Investigate and resolve automated dispensing cabinet related issues
• Cover assigned shifts as determined by departmental need
• Facilitate investigational drug studies with assistance of the pharmacist and/or other personnel involved in the drug study
• Complete sterile compounding training as assigned, including hazardous medications, and demonstrate competency on a frequency defined by facility policy (optional)
• Complete extemporaneous compounding training, including hazardous medications, and demonstrate competency on a frequency defined by facility policy
• Participate in orientation of new staff members
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures as requested by pharmacy leadership
• Completes assigned competencies, departmental and facility specific, by assigned deadlines

Effective Communication Skills
• Achieve and maintain satisfactory working relationships with pharmacy leadership, pharmacy staff, and other departments throughout the system
• Attend departmental staff meetings

Relationships
• Performs tasks under the supervision of all pharmacists and pharmacy leadership. Reports to technician supervisor.
• Adheres to Pharmacy Services Agreement

Patient Population Served
• The Pharmacy Department provides pharmaceutical care to neonatal/infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric populations.

Education / Accreditation / Licensure (required & preferred):

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Completion of a formal Pharmacy Technician educational program and/or an Associate’s degree, or previous hospital-based pharmacy technician experience preferred
• Registered as a pharmacy technician with the Commonwealth of Kentucky
• Current National Board certification by Pharmacy Technician Certification Board® or National HealthCareer Association required within 90 days of hire
*Certification not required for second year students and/or licensed pharmacy interns
actively enrolled in a Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Experience (required and preferred):

• One year of pharmacy technician experience preferred.

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