Pharmacy Technician III - MSC Retail Pharmacy

Pharmacy Technician III

The County of Riverside's Riverside University Health System (RUHS), MSC Retail Pharmacy Division is seeking a qualified Pharmacy Technician III to join their team located in Moreno Valley. Under general supervision, incumbents are responsible in supporting and participating in the medication management process including procurement, storage, preparation, distribution, and monitoring of medications; performs other related duties as required. The most competitive candidate will have at least three years of community or retail pharmacy experience and demonstrate excellent customer service skills. The Pharmacy Technician III is the advanced journey level classification in the Pharmacy Technician series and reports to a Pharmacist or Supervising Pharmacy Technician. Incumbents perform the more difficult assignments, duties and roles which require additional trainings beyond operations, as well as act as shift leads, participate in staff education and perform training duties. Under the guidance and supervision of the Pharmacists, the Technicians are responsible for the majority of the medication preparation and distribution, and processing of prescriptions and medication orders. The Pharmacy Technician III is distinguished from the Supervising Pharmacy Technician in that the latter provides full scope supervision to staff and supervises the day-to-day operation. Advancement to the next level is obtained by competitive selection through an open recruitment.

Copies of your Pharmacy Technician Certification issued by California State Board of Pharmacy must be uploaded to your profile as an attachment at the time of submitting your application to be considered. If you are having difficulties uploading your required documents, please email them to View email address on click.appcast.io.

Work Schedule and/or Shift Times: (subject to change upon department needs) * 4/10, rotating shifts, weekends and holidays.

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Examples of Essential Duties (may include but not limited to):

• Perform all essential duties of a Pharmacy Technician.
• Provide input and guidance to management and staff as needed.
• Work on other projects as assigned or as pertains to the pharmacy area.
• Participate and support performance improvement activities; maintain quality assurance data and contribute to the quality assurance processes.
• Generate reports and analyses pertaining to particular area of practice.
• Assist the Clinical Pharmacist in daily tasks; work under written protocol or collaborative practices.
• Perform complex duties independently.
• Able to utilize databases and systems pertaining to area of work.
• Engage with other members of the healthcare team and customers to facilitate patient care needs.
• Train new staff; participate in ongoing evaluation of staff competency.
• Serve as a lead and direct the activities of technicians, trainees and students.
• Problem solves daily obstacles, e.g., related to staffing, workflow operations, communication, and de-escalation.
• Contribute to improvements in procedure or workflow; participate in the development and revision of policy and procedures
• Typing prescriptions
• Answering phones
• Filling
• Helping patients at the pickup window.
• Procurement and maintenance of inventory
• Doing prior authorizations
• Help oversee the operations by providing guidance to the staff for when to take their breaks/lunches and rotating to the appropriate workstations
• Provides training to other pharmacy technicians, interns, and new hires.
• Provides input on staffing, scheduling, and workflow processes for improvements.
• Other duties and projects may be assigned as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Completion of a Pharmacy Technician training course in accordance with the California State Board of Pharmacy licensing requirements. Experience: Three years as a pharmacy technician in a healthcare facility or community pharmacy. Knowledge of: And thorough understanding of drug categories, metric system, pharmaceutical calculations, and medical terminology; generic and brand names, and understand the use restrictions that apply; drug distribution systems; quality assurance and continuous quality improvement; excellent customer (physicians, nurses and patients) service; professional standards and practices; federal, Board of Pharmacy, Joint Commission, and DHS laws, regulations and guidelines pertaining to patient care and dispensing of legend and non-legend pharmaceuticals and poisons; pharmacy systems databases and equipment; department and hospital policies and procedures pertinent to pharmacy practice. Ability to: Communicate clearly and effectively in both written and verbal format to clearly and concisely provide information; recognize and deal with priorities in a fast paced, high workflow environment; possess decision making skills to independently exercise delegated authority to take action, and to recognize when it is appropriate to escalate; retrieve and process patient and medication information; work with the staff and function as a model for them; work cooperatively with other staff and healthcare providers; organize and manage routine and new responsibilities.

Other Requirements Certificate: Possession of a valid certificate of registration as a Pharmacy Technician issued by the California State Board of Pharmacy.