Pharmacy Tech II

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Pharmacy Tech, you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.

Every day, you'll build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times. Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.

To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times. You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.

• Delivers medications to designated areas accurately and efficiently, including consolidating trips and recognizing priorities

• Fills and bills patient cassettes accurately and efficiently, processes patient charges and credits accurately and rapidly into the computer and delivers and exchanges cassettes efficiently

• Fills stock, Unit dose medications and medication orders accurately, efficiently and in a timely manner taking into account specific patient needs

• Completes outpatient pharmacy functions according to departmental processes which includes but is not limited to: calling in prescription refills to the physician offices and processing take home prescriptions

• Stocks take home area, shelves and medication bins and all areas of the pharmacy

• Conducts IV preparation functions according to departmental processes using sterile technique. Competency required within 12-months of hire. Competency will be required to transfer into a posted position requiring this skillset

Job Requirements

Required

• Completed Pharmacy Technician program 1 year of Hospital Pharmacy and Sterilecompounding experience. If operations allow, may consider training new graduate or non-acute care experienced tech., upon hire

• Pharmacy Technician: CA, upon hire and

• Certified Pharmacy Tech PTCB, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital's network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living.

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Pay Range

$35.22 - $41.22 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.