Pharmacy Tech Delnor Part-time Rotating Schedule

Northwestern Memorial Healthcare - Geneva, IL

Part-time - Entry Level

Geneva, IL

Hospitals

About the position

At Northwestern Medicine, the Pharmacy Technician plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality healthcare services. This position reflects the mission, vision, and values of Northwestern Medicine, adhering to the organization's Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program. The Pharmacy Technician is responsible for ensuring compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and regulatory standards. The role requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment. The Pharmacy Technician is integral to the medication management process, which includes identifying and filling medications, surgical kits, medication carts, emergency crash carts, requisitions, and specialty items. In addition to filling and labeling individual patient medications according to computer-generated medication profiles, the Pharmacy Technician prepares sterile compounds and IV admixtures for injection and infusion, including hazardous medications, chemotherapy, and biologics. They are responsible for packaging medications into unit-of-use forms, ensuring all medications and supplies are labeled with the required information, and maintaining a log of each preparation. The role also involves delivering medications to nursing units, maintaining appropriate inventory levels in automated dispensing cabinets, and rotating stock to minimize outdated medications. The Pharmacy Technician assists in ordering, receiving, unpacking, and storing pharmaceuticals and supplies in designated locations. They are tasked with replacing returned medications, checking for expired items, and performing unit inspections and emergency cart checks to ensure compliance with safety standards. Additionally, the Pharmacy Technician handles controlled substances with care, maintaining security and accurate records of dispenses, expired items, waste, and returns. They also enter patient charges and credit information into the computer and maintain logs and records as required.

Responsibilities

• Identifies and fills medications, surgical kits, medication carts, emergency crash carts, requisitions, and specialty items.
• Prepares sterile compounds and IV admixtures for injection and infusion, including hazardous medications, chemotherapy, and biologics.
• Fills and labels individual patient medications according to a computer-generated medication profile.
• Packages medications into a unit-of-use form, labeling all medications and supplies with the required information; maintains a log of each preparation.
• Delivers medications to nursing units and automated dispensing cabinets; retrieves discontinued medications.
• Maintains appropriate inventory of automated dispensing cabinets; rotates all floor stock and inventory to reduce outdated medications.
• Assists in ordering, receiving, unpacking, and storing pharmaceuticals and supplies in appropriate locations.
• Replaces returned medications to appropriate locations, rotating the inventory and checking for expired medications.
• Controls and checks medications outside of the department by performing unit inspections and emergency cart checks.
• Appropriately handles controlled substances, including maintaining security, reconciling controlled substance dispenses, and accounting for transactions of expired, waste, and return.
• Enters patient charges and credit information into the computer.
• Maintains logs, records, and other required documentation.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Pharmacy Technician License (IDFPR).
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) certification through PTCB or NHA required for all licensed after 2008 (within 6 months of hire or sooner if required by IL pharmacy practice act).

Nice-to-haves

• One year or less of related work experience, demonstrating familiarity with routines and procedures customary to the position.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• 401(k) matching
• Loan forgiveness