Pharmacy Techs and Intern Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Monitors workflow volume.
• Organizes prioritizes and delegates work assignments.
• Develops and implements systems and controls to improve accuracy and efficiency within area of responsibility.
• Contributes to review, development, and maintenance of departmental administrative policies and procedures.
• Selects, trains, supervises and evaluates designated personnel.
• Monitors work performance, provides guidance, appropriate feedback and initiates disciplinary actions as warranted.
• Administers, interprets, enforces and communicates hospital and departmental personnel policies and procedures.
• Provides decision support for department strategic planning and development of long and short-term goals and objectives.
• Collects and analyzes department statistics, identifies, interprets and communicates trends and develops recommendations to achieve specified goals and objectives.
• Advises Operations Manager on issues and prepares special reports.
• Fills and delivers medication orders.
• Dispenses standing inpatient medication orders.
• Schedules provision of special syringe, oral dosage and IV products as requested.
• Delivers cassettes and individual medications to units and collects new medication orders according to established procedures and schedules.
• Prepares patient medications in accordance with established protocols, methods and techniques.
• Measures, mixes and compounds automated TPNs, irrigations, chemotherapy drugs and parenteral and oral medications in specified volumes, dosages and concentrations.
• Prepares special dilutions of non-controlled and controlled substances, IV and research study medications as needed.
• Labels and records manufactured medications as required.
• Performs quality controls checks of medication orders and doses distributed following established procedures and schedules.
• Compares pharmacy and nursing records to ensure match of medication orders.
• Counts and reconciles actual dosages dispensed, delivered and remaining in medication bins against pharmacy and nursing records. Identifies, documents, researches and reports and/or resolves errors, discrepancies and unused doses, as required.
• Performs routine quality control and equipment maintenance tasks according to established procedures and schedules and prepares and maintains related logs and records.
• Responds to requests for routine factual information.
• Serves as liaison to inpatient units regarding dispensing and distribution of patient medications.
• Reviews and discusses individual patients' therapies with nursing staff, identifying special patient needs and projecting quantities of medications required.
• Communicates with pharmacists and other technical staff to plan and provide services.
• Receives and fills pharmaceutical supply requests for nursing units, satellite locations and other areas.
• Monitors, restocks and rotates supplies, including controlled substances, removing and replacing outdated products and processing related patient charges and credits.
• Restocks emergency codes cart trays and prepares and maintains corresponding logs and records.
• Assists nursing staff in completing scheduled controlled substance inventory.
• Performs all automated dispensing functions.
• Maintains knowledge of current professional trends and practices.

Requirements

• Current registration as a Pharmacy Technician by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy.
• Current certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board or National Healthcare Association.
• Completion of a Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy approved training program or a minimum of 500 hours worked as a pharmacy technician trainee.
• Experience in Pharmacy Inventory Control