Pharmacy Technician Supervisor - Boston Children's Hospital

Job Summary
Oversees functions and daily operations of department in concert with Pharmacy Operations Manager.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Directs and oversees daily operations of drug distribution
• Delegates and monitors 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.
•  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 and analyses as requested.
• Plans and develops goals and objectives for areas of responsibility.
• Fills and delivers medication orders/prescriptions.
• 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.
• 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.  
• Responds to requests for routine factual information within scope of authority, refers inquiries requiring medical or administrative judgment to appropriate personnel.
• 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, which meet unit and patient needs.
• 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.  
• Participation in professional organizations and attendance at conferences, workshops and continuing education programs.

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.
•  5 years of Pharmacy Technician experience
• Hospital experience highly preferred
• Completion of a Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy approved training program, or a minimum of 500 hours worked as a pharmacy technician trainee.
• Requires being a minimum of 18 years of age
• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits!

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