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Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

Days: 7:30a-4p, 8a-4:30p or 8:30a-5p

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

32

Cost Center:

24060 - 3800 Pharmacy

Union:

SEIU - Service & Maintenance HealthAlliance Burbank

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, responsibilities of this position includes the preparation, dispensing and delivery of medications for patients. Completes other tasks associated with drug distribution processes, automated dispensing systems, packaging, IV systems, training, and scheduling.

Major Responsibilities:

• Answers telephone calls and triages requests from customers to the pharmacist staff.
• Triages window requests from customers.
• Delivers medications to the patient care areas and picks up copies of physician orders, return of medications, etc.  Complete scheduled rounds on patient care areas.
• Assists the pharmacist staff with day to day requests from patient care providers.

Inventory management tasks:

• Assists with ordering, receiving and storing non-controlled medications from the wholesaler on a daily basis.
• Stores medications in designated areas in the central pharmacy, IV room and anesthesia prep area.
• Assures bin labels are visible and clear.
• Segregate medications to appropriate storage bins, etc.
• Checks for expiration dating on medications on a consistent basis to assure medications do not leave pharmacy with short dating.

Preparation and dispensing of medications for patients – Drug Distribution Systems:
Accurately packages unit dose medications with appropriate labeling information as outlined in policy and procedures to support Pharmacy distribution process including:

• Pre-packing bulk medications. 
• Compounding ointments, creams, oral solutions, and other medications as needed.
• Under the supervision of a pharmacist, completes all assigned drug distribution tasks assigned.

Under the supervision of a pharmacist, completes all necessary tasks associated with day to day operations of Pyxis distribution system including:

• Refilling medications.
• Loading new medications.
• Inventory maintenance.
• Expiration dating.
• Returning bin procedures.
• Troubleshooting for nursing and pharmacy.
• Customer service resolution for nursing and pharmacy.
• Controlled substance discrepancy resolution assistance for the pharmacist staff as needed.

• Assists the management team with inventory optimization of Pyxis on an ongoing basis.
• Identifies quality improvements and customer service improvements with Pyxis automation.
• Completes other distribution tasks as assigned by pharmacist.
• Trains colleagues and technical staff as needed.  

Preparation and dispensing of medications for patients – IV Room Distribution Systems:
Under the supervision of a pharmacist, accurately complete all daily assignments for IV room distribution following USP 797 practice standards and pharmacy policy and procedures.

Under the supervision of a pharmacist, completes all necessary tasks associated with day-to-day operations of IV Room distribution systems including:

• Patient specific IV preparation – daily batch preparation.
• Batch IV production for pharmacy prepared products.
• Small volume parenterals.
• Large volume parenterals.
• IV syringes.
• IV infusions.
• TPNs.

• Other patient specific IV