Pharmacy Technician

4 days ago

Bedford, United States Veterans Health Administration Full time

Pharmacy technicians prepare medications by counting, pouring, weighing, measuring, and mixing or compounding oral and intravenous medications. The pharmacy technician may also prepare medications for distribution to inpatient wards and clinics and outpatients for pickup and mailing. The pharmacy technician works in collaboration with other pharmacy technicians and responds to requests of pharmacists and other pharmacy supervisory staff. Duties include, but not limited to:
Ensures that adequate off-line inventory levels of unit dose medication packaged through automation are maintained based on utilization trends.
Maintains and reviews daily and weekly reports as appropriate on utilization of controlled substances, null transaction, item expiratory and discrepancies.
Monitors automation system functions and connectivity.
Troubleshoots problems with automated dispensing cabinets and unit dose prepackaging machines.
Performs or schedules basic and routine maintenance to automated dispensing devices or other equipment.
Trains and orients Pharmacy Staff in the operation of the automation equipment.
Maintains automated equipment user files.
Inventories and replenishes automated equipment.
Prepares and maintains a written annual competency assessment test for the pharmacy staff.
Communicates with departments outside of Pharmacy concerning discrepancies, errors, machine failures, and other problems that arise.
Ensures automated dispensing cabinets are appropriately utilized for storage and dispensing of controlled substances.
Interacts with the Controlled Substance Inspection Officials in troubleshooting problems.
Removes expired medications from stock and follows facility policy and procedure for disposal.
Serves as a back up to other inpatient pharmacy technicians, which includes but is not limited to Unit Dose, outpatient, IV room compounding sterile preparations as well as evening coverage.
Assists the Inpatient Pharmacy Supervisor in collecting data for workload reports and process improvement projects.
Monitors controlled substance accountability records to identify questionable circumstances or unusual trends by examining pre-defined surveillance reports, written controlled substance records, and individual patient records.
Communicates to supervisor any activities involving controlled substances that deviate from approved policies and procedures.
Actively participates in the writing, updating, training, and implementation of facility policy and procedure pertaining to controlled substances and automated dispensing cabinets.

Pharmacy Technician:
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Work Schedule
: Full-Time, Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm.


Compressed/Flexible
:Not Available.


Pay:
Competitive salary and regular salary increases when setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of existing pay, higher or unique qualifications, or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).


Paid Time Off:
37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.


Parental Leave:
After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.


Child Care Subsidy:
After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66
.


Retirement:
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA


Insurance:
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)


Telework
: Not Available.


Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.


Functional Statement #
: F06758


Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized.




Notifications:

This position is in the Excepted Service.
Due to a critical staffing shortage, 38 U.S.C. § 7412 waives the requirement to apply Veterans' preference for this job announcement.
Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
This position is eligible for coverage by a NAGE Bargaining Unit.
This position is covered by a special rate.
Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.

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