Pharmacy Technician (Procurement/Inventory)

Pharmacy Technician (Procurement/Inventory)

The duties of the Pharmacy Technician (Procurement/Inventory) include:

• Continuously analyzes and reassess priorities to ensure workload demands are accomplished in the most effective, efficient, and economic manner.
• Effectively evaluates pharmacy activities to assist pharmacy managers in obtaining short- and long-range goals and objectives.
• Assists pharmacy procurement supervisor in identifying areas of effort duplication and developing solutions to streamline processes, reduce waste, save costs, and improve patient care.
• Reports potential and/or actual medication errors. Encourages pharmacy technicians to report actual and/or potential medication errors or adverse events.
• Assists in quality improvement by participating in service process assessments and action teams and by continually seeking to improve the service.
• Demonstrates efforts to improve patient satisfaction, lower cost, and improve quality and timely patient care.
• Works constructively as a team member, assisting co-workers in tasks that support staff, visitors, and other customers in achieving service toward facility and network goals.
• Maintains continuous oversight on the security of pharmacy inventory and storage areas and reports to management any inconsistencies or concerns.
• Oversees financial reports reconciliation including, but not limited to, the weekly pharmacy prime vendor line-item report (B09) to source documents and ensures that invoices are being properly entered into the daily activity entry under the correct pharmacy obligation number as assigned by fiscal service.
• Serves as lead ordering officer for pharmacy service, delegated by the VA National Acquisition Center while maintaining annual training requirements.
• Trains new procurement staff on department standard operating procedures and provides oversight to ensure competencies are met. Re-trains staff as dictated.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Based on the needs of the service.

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Ad-hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 70381F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized