Certified Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Tech, PRN

Come work where you are appreciated for who you are not just what you can do. Paris Regional Medical Center is a 154-bed general acute-care hospital with cutting edge equipment and robust service lines. Paris Regional is a Level III Trauma Facility, Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI, Advanced Primary Stroke Care certified, and our orthopedic outcomes are in the top 5% in the nation.

A small town with the views of a historic downtown community, Paris, Texas is the second largest Paris in the World. With something for everyone, you can picnic at the Eiffel Tower, find vintage treasures and unique boutiques downtown, experience delicious local cuisine, and explore historic venues and parks.

Position Summary

The pharmacy technician position plays an integral role in medication delivery through automated dispensing cabinet workflows, sterile and non-sterile compounding and quality assurance for all medications delivered in the facility.

Essential Functions

• Prepares intravenous solutions and admixtures in accordance to USP requirements, state, federal, and other regulatory requirements or standards
• Assists in filling prescriptions and fills automated dispensing cabinet accurately
• Prepares select reports and files appropriately as directed by departmental, local, state, and/or federal requirements.
• Receives and stores incoming deliveries of medication and supplies in correct designated areas
• Assists the pharmacists in providing pharmaceutical care for patients ranging in age from newborn to the elderly
• Promptly prepares medications and proactively plans for normal operational and individual patient usage with minimal direction from pharmacist.
• Maintains the Pharmaceutical Services Department in a clean and orderly manner
• Performs other pharmacy-related duties as requested or required
• Demonstrates ability to calculate figures and amounts relating to dosage calculations when filing various prescriptions ranging from the newborn to the elderly populations
• Demonstrates ability to apply common sense and understanding to carry out instruction furnished in written, oral and diagram form
• Performs assigned training activities, competencies, or learning activities successfully and by assigned deadline
• Maintains professional, helpful and courteous relationship within the department and with other departments. Demonstrates ability to handle interpersonal conflict utilizing Language of Caring behaviors or utilizing chain of command appropriately

Qualifications

• Active pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician in training license
• Sterile compounding certification (preferred)
• Possesses at least 1 year of inpatient hospital experience (preferred)
• Omnicell and Meditech experience (preferred)

Paris Regional Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Paris Regional Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.