Pharmacy Technician Certified - Mount Sinai Brooklyn - Full-time days

Prepares medication orders for review by a pharmacist.  Maintains an accurate, current census, including cassette bin labels, for all assigned areas

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Prepackages and labels medications, fills unit dose cassettes and assists in the maintenance of records associated with these functions
• Audits the records of controlled substances, ensures compliance with hospital, state and federal regulations as directed by a pharmacist, manager, or director
• Advises nursing and pharmacy
• Managers of discrepancies; assists in discrepancy resolution; maintains the files of all completed controlled drug records; and ensures proper storage
• Issues controlled substances and prescription pads as per departmental policy under the direct supervision of a pharmacist
• Processes controlled substances returns and receives product into inventory
• Ensures appropriate inventory on hand at all times and maintains required balances
• Assists in discrepancy resolution
• Obtains appropriate signatures when issuing/delivering controlled substances and prescription pads
• Maintains a file of all receipts for the 24 hour period prior to the return of the disposition records
• Maintains an accurate, current census, including cassette bin labels, for all assigned areas
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Pharmacy Tech certification (CPhT) required (through PTCB); Current NYS Registered Pharmacy Technician license and registration certificate required.
• Hospital pharmacy experience preferred; IV admixture experience preferred

 

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSB

 

SEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, ADB - Pharmacy - BKL, Mount Sinai Brooklyn

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Wes