Pharmacy Technician

Job Description

Schedule: Full-time (38 hours per week) | Variable 8-hour shifts + rotating weekends & holidays.

Your experience matters
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Pharmacy Technician joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team
The pharmacy unit plays a vital role in ensuring the safe and effective use of medications for patients. The unit is responsible for dispensing medications accurately and efficiently, maintaining comprehensive medication inventory and control, including narcotics and controlled substances. This includes selecting, calculating, measuring, preparing (both sterile and non-sterile), packaging, labeling, charging, and crediting various pharmacy products like intravenous medications. In addition, the pharmacy ensures compliance with safety standards and regulatory requirements.

How you'll contribute
A Pharmacy Technician who excels in this role will:

• Participates in the in-patient and out-patient medication distribution and information management processes.
• Answer telephones and electronic messages.
• Enter, maintain, and assure the accuracy of all information in the Pharmacy Department's patient data bases.
• Receive and process medication orders and prescriptions via medication order/entry-locate, assemble, package, and label drug doses (new orders, unit-dose cycle fill, and out-patient prescriptions), deliver completed orders.
• Clarify questionable requests and solve distribution problems.
• Post charges/credits for transactions that are not completed via order-entry.
• Assemble stock orders.
• Extemporaneously package and label doses that require special packaging.
• Prepare, maintain, and file all reports and forms employed for the complete documentation of all distributive and compounding activities.
• Assist in the recording of department statistics.
• Meet performance and educational requirements for the compounding, preparation and distribution of sterile and nonsterile dose forms.
• Assist in the provision of out-patient pharmacy prescription services.
• Participate in the inventory management process (alert buyer to out-of-stock or unusual utilization circumstances, receive orders, restock, perform physical inventories, review inventory for outdated medications and proper storage, etc).
• Learn and competently utilize Pharmacy automated information, distribution and inventory management systems.
• Maintain, neat, clean, orderly work area (unit-dose assembly, IV admixture, passive inventory, data control, library/conference, out-patient, employee facilities).
• Perform hospital-based unit inspections for both inpatient and outpatient patient care areas, including the pharmacy department.

Why join us
We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits : Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO : Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth : Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being : Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development : Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for
Applicants should be a High School graduate or equivalent. Additional requirements include:

• Licensed as a pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician in training by the PA State Board of Pharmacy.

More about Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center is a 537-bed behavioral health, rehabilitation, and transitional care hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the Johnstown community for over 135 years. We are proud to be recognized by the American Heart Association with the Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.

EEOC Statement
"Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Conemaugh Memorial 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."

About Us

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

About the Team

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.