Pharmacy Technician
Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
General Duties
- Accurately interpret, fills, and prepares prescriptions with appropriate medications and or medical supplies for pharmacist verification.
- Assures drugs and supplies are appropriately stored and secured according to USP and VA guidelines
- Perform monthly inspections to assigned areas to ensure proper storage of medications and soon to expired drugs are removed.
- Completes procurement duties which include assisting with monitoring and management of physical inventory.
- Reconstitutes oral or external medications (non-sterile).
- Assists in training and orientation of new staff.
Controlled Substances Activities:
- Appropriately restocks controlled substances items in automated secured cabinets.
- Documents all controlled substance related transactions as indicated by VA and DEA guidelines.
- Assures that inventory counts are correct at the time of restocking and filling.
- Ensures proper handoff occurs when receiving or delivering controlled substances.
Outpatient Pharmacy Activities (when assigned): Prescription Assembly
- Assembles prescriptions properly with the correct drug, strength, quantity, auxiliary labels, and prescription labels.
- Assures that the correct medication is filled by using bar code scanning on stock bottles.
- Supports automation by manually completing prescriptions not processed through the automation dispensing machine.
Window Pick-Up
- Verifies the patient's identification following the facility's policies (i.e., double patient identifiers)
- Verifies that the patient receives the correct prescriptions by using VA software (i.e., ScriptPro barcode scanning)
- Verifies the patient has received all prescriptions (i.e., refrigerated, controlled substances, bulk medications, etc.)
Mail Packaging
- Utilizes and comprehends the mail shipping programs used by the facility for overnight delivery of non-controlled and controlled prescriptions.
- Performs searches, updates patient information, and generates shipping reports as requested by the supervisor.
- Calls patients to arrange delivery of refrigerated prescriptions and verifies patients address.
Work Schedule: Pharmacy core hours of operation are Monday - Friday, 7AM-7PM. ***Schedule will vary to include days, nights, weekends and holidays. Occasional overtime may be required. Specific schedules will be discussed during interviews.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 92222A