Certified Pharmacy Tech

Company: St. James Healthcare
Location: Butte
Posted on: June 23, 2022

Job Description:

You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Certified Pharmacy Technician.

Your attention to detail is tangible: you take pride in performing accurate work. Colleagues feel it in your support.

You're generous with your thoughts, your partnerships and especially your dedication.

You're great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.


Us.

St. James Healthcare is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 98-bed hospital is the only full-service acute care facility in Butte, and we're the largest hospital serving a seven-county area. Our mission is to bring health and hope to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.


We.

Together we'll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We'll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.

We'll laugh at each other's jokes (even the bad ones). We'll hello and high five. We'll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

We're proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.


Your day.

As a Certified Pharmacy Tech you need to know how to:

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• Assist with all phases of pharmacy services while under the supervision of a pharmacist.
  
  
• Answer phones.
  
  
• Prepare and deliver medications for dispensing.
  
  
• Utilize pharmacy technology effectively to distribute medications.
  
  
• Accurately fill and maintain medications supplies in the automatic dispensing system including verifying and monitoring controlled substance inventories as required. Package and label medications accurately and appropriately to minimize waste. Verify and monitor controlled substance inventories as required by daily shift assignment.
  
  
• Compound medications in accordance with state law and policy. Perform calculations as necessary for accurate compounding. Prepare medication orders (i.e., chemotherapy, IV admixtures, compounding) according to established policies, procedures, and protocols. Prepare complex sterile compounded IV products, including daily batch orders, stat and other emergency medications and TPN formulations.
  
  
• Maintain appropriate records as required by regulation and policy.
  
  
• Ensure pharmacy cleanliness and orderliness.
  
  
• Assist the pharmacist in collecting clinical and other patient information as required.
  
  
• Effectively manage pharmacy inventory to ensure security, accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and 340B/Charging management as required.
  
  
• Escalate items to the pharmacist for review as appropriate based on urgency, regulations, and scope.
  
  
• Complete advanced tasks consistent with scope as assigned by management.
  
  
• Participate in quality and patient safety initiatives. Identify potential areas for improvement including processes that could be streamlined or revised to improve patient satisfaction. Identify potential safety hazards that may create problems for patients and/or staff, and take appropriate actions. Participate in departmental meetings, contributing ideas or feedback.
  
  
  
  Your experience.
  
  We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
  
  
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  • High School Diploma or equivalent
    
    
  • Pharmacy Technician certification (CPhT) and must be maintained during employment
    
    
  • Current license in Montana as a Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) and must be maintained with biennial continuing education. Any lapse in licensure will result in immediate termination
    
    
    Preferred:
    
    
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    • Associate's or Bachelor's Degree
      
      
    • Technician training
      
      
    • Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association
      
      
    • At least two (2) years working as a Certified Pharmacy Technician in a hospital or infusion pharmacy setting
      
      
      
      Your next move.
      
      Now that you know more about being a Certified Pharmacy Tech on our team we hope you'll join us. At SCL Health you'll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.

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