Certified Pharmacy Tech III , Controlled Substance, 1st Shift - UofL Health

Job Title: Certified Pharmacy Technician III  Controlled Substance  

We are Hiring at University Hospital

Location: 530 South Jackson St  Louisville KY 40202

Shift Options: 1^st shift  Full Time

The controlled substance pharmacy technician is responsible for movement of controlled substances into the facility and distribution to patient care areas. The technician will work directly with pharmacists to ensure security, detailed administrative procedures, distribution, and destruction as necessary for all controlled substances. The technician fulfilling this role must be willing to accept increased responsibility for federal regulations relating to controlled substances, stay up to date on applicable changes in federal and state laws, and provides continuous monitoring for distribution, administration, and expiration within the facility.

The controlled substance pharmacy technician will function independently to complete all major responsibilities related to controlled substances such as: ordering, dispensing, receipt, record keeping and reporting.

Major controlled substance technician responsibilities include: distributes controlled substances for delivery to a secure place for storage or administration, communicates with hospital staff, responsible for investigation, follow up, and resolution of all controlled substance related discrepancies, completes audits of controlled substance utilization, assists with processing of controlled substance waste as assigned, 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
• Prepares medications for loading into the ADC and unloads medications from the ADC utilizing bar code scanning. Fills inventory requests for nursing unit’s ADCs, floor stock, and fills patient specific drawers by placing the proper bins according to census profile.

• 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
• Fills controlled substance orders and addresses all discrepancies daily
• 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’ ADC as scheduled and for emergent deliveries as necessary
• 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

Serve as a mentor to new pharmacy technicians, pharmacy technician students, and pharmacy students
• Provide guidance to certified pharmacy technicians and 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 related to controlled substances and discrepancies
• Cover assigned shifts as determined by departmental need
• Participate in orientation of new staff members
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures as requested by pharmacy leadership 

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

Regulatory Responsibilities
• Ensure compliance with DEA rules and regulations
• Complete monthly controlled substance inventory
• Assists with biannual controlled substance hospital wide inventory
• Schedules, coordinates, and completes return of controlled substances to the reverse distributor

Relationships
• Performs tasks under the supervision of all pharmacists and pharmacy leadership. Reports to the Pharmacy Manager
• 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)
*Certification not required for second year students and/or licensed pharmacy interns
actively enrolled in a Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Experience (required):

• 2 years of hospital experience
• > 5 years total experience in pharmacy practice

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