Pharmacy Tech

**Description**

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
**Location**:Plainsboro, NJ

**Available Shift hours**:
**FT DayShift **( 40 hours) -Primarily Day Shift/Monday through Fridays/ **8 hour shifts **( 6am - 5pm), **need to rotate evening and overnight shifts **depending on staffing needs - every other weekend rotation.

**Why join our amazing Princeton Penn Medicine Pharmacy Tech Team?**

This is an opportunity to join a team of professionals in a high paced and rewarding healthcare environment. If you have your sights on developing your career in the healthcare industry, this is your chance for a growth opportunity We are an “all hands on deck team”, we provided amazing training opportunities and we do cross-train our employees to the highest standards. We are a growing team and we have a work-life-balance approach

**Benefits You'll Receive at Princeton/Penn Medicine**:

- Generous Paid Time Off benefits, including seven paid holidays that will give you the work-life balance today’s world needs
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage plan options that best fit your personal & family needs
- Tuition Assistance for both Part-Time (20+ hours) and Full-time (40 hours) employees.(_0.5 FTE and over_)
- Flexible Health Savings Accounts (FSA/HAS) to save pre-tax dollars to use towards your personal & family medical costs
- 403b Retirement Savings, Penn Home Ownership Services, Commuter Benefits, Pet Insurance and Pension
- Access to company paid life insurance, temporary disability. Employee discounts and perks, including but not limited to free secure employee-only parking, optional life insurance and other. _Please click on this _LINK_ _for more information regarding our amazing benefits package._

**Summary**:
- A member of the pharmacy department support staff who under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist performs specific job responsibilities authorized by the New Jersey State Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulation.

**Responsibilities**:

- Follows all procedures and techniques for aseptic preparation of parenteral products. Performs compounding of pharmaceutical preparations, including but not limited to: large volume parenteral solutions, intravenous piggybacks, epidural solutions, dialysis solutions, syringe products, and TPN solutions as assigned.
- Assist Nurses in locating medications for their patients
- Restocking ED Pyxis devices
- Assist with medication movement for patients transferred from ED to an inpatient unit or discharged from ED
- Follows all procedures for the maintenance of the clean room, anteroom and IV workroom according to USP Chapter 797 standards, including changing of laminar hood pre-filters and maintenance of equipment used in this area.
- Maintains medication inventory by assisting in ordering and receiving medication from wholesalers and vendors, completing paperwork relative to orders received, stocking all pharmacy areas, and maintaining inventory expiration records. Assists with medication inventory control on each nursing unit by performing nursing station reviews, stocking code cart trays, Pyxis, McKesson PROmanager and MedCarousel and resolving Pyxis drawer errors.
- Assists in the provision of pharmacy services to hospital inpatients and outpatients by assisting the pharmacists in dispensing functions, including but not limited to: accurately filling and labeling of all new and refill medications; filling of unit dose patient bins via the clinical computer system and McKesson automation; timely delivery of medications; restocking and maintaining medications in Pyxis devices and medication cabinets.

**Required Certifications**:

- Pharmacy Technician Not Specified (required)
- Lic-Pharmacy Technician Reg (required)
- Certified Pharmacy Technician - PTCB
- Valid Driver's License

**Education or Equivalent Experience**:

- H.S. Diploma/GED (required)
- High school graduate (college degree preferred) One year recent hospital pharmacy technical experience or several years of relevant pharmacy experience preferred.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to ma