Pharmacy Technician

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Duties

1. Ability to prepare, fill, and dispense controlled substance according to policies and procedures.

2. Conducts regularly scheduled inventories every 72 hours and daily if needed according to regulations and policies.

3. Assists the Controlled Substance Compliance Inspectors to complete the monthly inspections.

4. Effectively coordinates, manages, completes, and documents the purchasing of all prescription and non-prescription drug products and supplies by maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of the procurement and formulary process.

5. Maintains, verifies, stocks, and replaces outdated CS medications from stock including inpatient wards, inpatient/outpatient storage cabinets, vaults.

6. Maintains accurate electronic inventory through decrementing prescriptions, entering received inventory, transferring to automated dispensing cabinets, dispensing on green sheets, and transferring to other dispensing vaults.

7. Follows policies and procedures for handling the destruction and return of controlled substance medication.

8. Works with pharmacy procurement personnel by providing information regarding medications and supplies needed from the warehouse or wholesaler based on items used.

9. Assists, reviews, and makes recommendations in inventory control of controlled substances.

10. Monitors, analyzes orders, and usage/distribution patterns for questionable circumstances or unusual trends. Communicates potential problems to the Pharmacy Manager.

11. Provides training for pharmacists, interns, technicians, inspectors, students, and others in controlled substance accountability procedures.

12. Prepares, operates, restocks, and maintains complex automated dispensing cabinets and all necessary equipment supporting pharmaceutical patient care functions.

13. Maintains file of hard copy of hand-written CII-V prescriptions.

14. Resolves inventory discrepancies immediately when discovered by reviewing reports and contacting appropriate persons when needed. Reports discrepancies to pharmacy supervisor for follow up.

15. Ensures all controlled substances procedures abide by all local requirements, VISN, OIG and VHA handbook expectations and requirements, The Joint Commission (TJC) standards, VACO directives, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) requirements, appropriate inventory management practices, and other state and local requirements that apply.

16. Maintains security of controlled substances by controlling access to storage areas, and by ensuring that controlled substances are always kept in the locked, supervised area, specifically designated for controlled substance storage.

Work Schedule: 8 hour shift between 5:30am to 6:00 pm with rotating WHEN hours

EDRP Authorized: Yes. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Learn more

Functional Statement #: 60070F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized