Pharmacy Technician (IV compounding) #

About the position

The Pharmacy Technician (IV Compounding) role at Tufts Medical Center is focused on providing pharmacy-related services in a hospital setting. This position involves preparing and distributing pharmaceuticals, performing inventory control, and ensuring compliance with department policies. The technician will work under the supervision of a pharmacist and is expected to assist with various pharmacy functions while maintaining optimal pharmaceutical care.

Responsibilities

• Participates in advanced financial transaction and audit activities.
• Completes routine benefit investigation for high cost and complex medications.
• Performs audits of narcotic utilization, inventory control, and cost accounting or billing for specialized areas.
• Engages in advanced customer service activities.
• Investigates and resolves medication issues or requests, and communicates directly with patients or health care providers.
• Communicates medication-related issues to all appropriate health care professionals.
• Completes advanced data collection activities.
• Completes medication profile data collection and medication history collection.
• Communicates effectively with nursing, physicians, and ancillary services to meet the needs of these departments and maintains a positive working relationship and image of the pharmacy department.
• Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues to effectively contribute to the working group's achievement of goals and foster a positive work environment.
• Performs complex non-sterile and hazardous sterile medication preparation activities.
• Operates advanced, innovative technology to assist in preparation of sterile products.
• Makes complex allergy testing kits that require serial dilutions.
• Prepares a variety of products including specialized dilutions and specialty infusions.
• Partakes in advanced medication dispensing activities.
• Performs process validation utilizing bar code scanning technology.
• Removes scheduled II-IV medications from the narcotic vault for the replenishment of automated dispensing cabinets.
• Navigates workflows for high priority orders and prescriptions.
• Displays versatility within the operations to support timely medication dispensing.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPht).
• Massachusetts Pharmacy Technician Registration.
• One (1) year of pharmacy-related experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Associate's degree.
• Two (2) years of pharmacy-related experience in a hospital setting.