PHARMACY TECHNICIAN-F/C - 60006507

Requisition No: 853688 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: PHARMACY TECHNICIAN-F/C - 60006507

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 60006507 

Salary:  $33,760.00 - $40,000.00 Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 07/06/2025 

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The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a mental health treatment facility owned and operated by the State of Florida and is part of the Department of Children and Families. The department’s mission is to “work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.”

 

FLORIDA STATE HOSPITAL IS A TOBACCO FREE FACILITY.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION. 

 

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as a Pharmacy Technician. This position will collaborate with each section within the state facilities and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented. 

 

Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• The incumbent must spend at least 75 percent of his or her time performing duties which involve contact with patients or inmates in a correctional or forensic facility or institution.: For the positions that are within both civil and FC only include it if it applies. This position requires lifting, pulling, and squatting.
• Assists the pharmacist in dispensing medication orders for units as prescribed by physicians.  Labeling of prepartions and prescriptions. The counting, weighing, measuring, and pouring of prescription medication or stock legend drugs and controlled substances, *including the filling of an automated medication system.
• Responsible for ordering and restocking supplies based on usage.
• Responsible for rotating drugs in assigned area  and reordering drugs based on usage. Responsible for routinely checking the expiration dates of drugs in Pharmacy assigned area/Automated Dispensing Device and completing drug destruction log.
• Participation in a monitoring program to remove deteriorated pharmaceuticals to a quarantine area.
• While under the direct supervison of the pharmacist, performance of any other mechnical, technical, or administrative tasks, which do not themselves constitute practice of the profession of Pharmacy.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:

• Knowledge of the standards and terminology used in the practice of pharmacy.
• Ability to inventory supplies.
•  Ability to maintain records.
•  Ability to collect and analyze data and prepare reports.
•  Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work responsibilities.
• Ability to prepare purchase requisitions.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with the State of Florida Board of Pharmacy.