Pharmacy Technician, Certified or Trainee, Ambulatory Care, Iowa River Landing Pharmacy 100%

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The Iowa River Landing Pharmacy is seeking   Pharmacy Technicians, Trainee or Certified, 100% time. Under general supervision performs activities associated with drug distribution and control for outpatient and clinic patient dispensing. 40 hours will be accomplished between the hours of 6:30am - 8:00pm on Mondays - Thursday and 6:30am - 6:00pm on Fridays and between 8:30am -12:30pm on Saturday. 

 The Department of Pharmaceutical Care intends to hire at either the Pharmacy Technician, Trainee classification, or Pharmacy Technician, Certified, based on the qualifications of the successful candidate. Please indicate in your application materials the position you wish to be considered for or indicate both.

 Duties to include:

• Under pharmacist supervision prepares patient specific and batch sterile products including hazardous medications.
  • Using appropriate PPE including CSTD as appropriate
  • Preparation according to NIOSH, USP, and SOP guidelines
• Performs daily cleanroom maintenance activities including:
  • Cleaning of hood in accordance with SOP
  • Decontamination of hood as required
  • Review and documentation of hood maintenance activities
• Provide patient/customer service at Triage.  Communicate with the general- public, patients, and other health care personnel in accordance with established guidelines.  Receive and screen prescriptions for completeness and check for prescription readiness.
  • Conduct interview with patient or patient’s representative to collect and record patient profile information including demographic information, third party coverage information, weight of pediatric patients, medication allergy information, medical conditions, and current list medications being taken other than those presented.
  • Determine waiting/pick-up time.
  • Triage prescription to appropriate team.  Recognize workflow patterns for effective triage of prescriptions.
  • Answer telephone lines and triage phone calls per established policies and procedures.
• Order entry of prescriptions
  • Enter patient profile information.
  • Enter patient coverage/third party information.
  • Generate a “Note to Dispensing Pharmacist” as needed.
• Fill/refill prescriptions
  • Read label for accuracy and correct as needed.
  • Label and package the correct medication.
• Answer the dedicated prescription refill telephone line.
  • Generate prescription refill label.
  • Verify address for prescription(s) to be mailed and the date medication is needed.
  • Fill out call check and note pickup time or date to be mailed.
• Prepare prescriptions for mailing and shipping according to established policies and procedures.
• Perform inventory maintenance activities.
  • Return to stock medications that have not been picked up by patients.
  • Perform daily and monthly drug inventories and audits as requested
• Generate and/or maintain (includes filing) appropriate records related to prescription dispensing such as hard copies of prescriptions, mailing/shipping forms/logs, and prescription quality assurance audits.
• Perform activities involving