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The Pharmacy Technician Senior provides technical support through medication preparation, distribution, and cartfill exchange while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. They also provide guidance to junior technicians and conduct quality assurance audits to maintain pharmacy integrity.
Requirements summary
Candidates must have at least 3 years of experience as a pharmacy technician and hold a high school diploma or equivalent. A Pharmacy Technician license from the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy is required, with CPhT certification preferred.
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Job description
Your job is more than a job.
The Pharmacy Technician Senior provides technical support to the pharmacy/healthcare professional(s) through medication preparation, delivery of medications, and cartfill exchange.
Performs technical duties in accordance with standard operating procedures and regulatory requirements.
Provides direction to new/junior technicians as required.
GENERAL DUTIES Medication Preparation: Procures, receives, prepares, packages, distributes, and disposes of medications and pharmaceutical supplies to assist the department in providing quality pharmaceutical care for all patients.
Prepares unit dose, compound oral, and intravenous medications.
Repackages medications in unit dosage forms.
Stocks medications and supplies.
Follows appropriate ordering procedures, restocks medications and other supplies in patient care areas/clinics.
Medication Delivery: Ensures product verification by the appropriate pharmacy professional and facilitates the distribution of medications to maintain product integrity.
Prioritization and Triaging: Responds to customers' needs by answering phone calls, receiving and distributing messages, and triaging requests appropriately.
Understands, implements appropriate time management and prioritization of tasks ensuring optimum patient care.
Quality Assurance: Conducts regular quality assurance inspections/audits focused on TJC/LBOP requirements, including product and equipment examinations regarding integrity and expiration.
Completes logs to include refrigerator/freezer temperature monitoring and required cleaning.
Training/Education/Professional: Participates in professional activities and organizations to maintain knowledge of current trends, practices, and developments.
Completes all required training, competency assessments and attends educational in-services as appropriate.
Guidance
Provides guidance to new team members and junior level technicians as required.
Experience
Qualifications
Required: 3 years as a
Pharmacy/hospital pharmacy technician
Benefits
Health Insurance
Professional Development
Training and Education
Education
Qualifications
Required: High School Diploma/GED or equivalent or Technical/vocational school
Licenses
AND
Certifications
Certification
Name:
Pharmacy
Technician
Required
Issuer:
Louisiana
Board of
Pharmacy
Licensure
Speciality:
Licensure
Entity:
Certification
Name:
Certified
Pharmacy
Technician
Preferred
Issuer:
Pharmacy
Technician
Certification
Board
Licensure
Speciality:
Certification
Entity:
WORK
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