About This Role
Performing critical tasks in medication handling and preparation, this part-time pharmacy technician role involves working with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment. The position suits a detail-oriented individual with strong critical thinking skills who is able to work rotating shifts.
Responsibilities
- Identify and fill medications, surgical kits, medication carts, emergency crash carts, requisitions, and specialty items
- Prepare sterile compounds and IV admixtures for injection and infusion, including hazardous medications, chemotherapy, and biologics
- Fill and label individual patient medications according to a computer-generated medication profile
- Package medications into a unit-of-use form, labeling all medications and supplies with the required information; maintain a log of each preparation
- Deliver medications to nursing units to automated dispensing cabinets and retrieve discontinued medications
- Maintain appropriate inventory of automated dispensing cabinets; rotate all floor stock and inventory to reduce outdated medications
- Assist in ordering, receiving, unpacking, and storing pharmaceuticals and supplies in appropriate locations
- Replace returned medications to appropriate locations, rotating the inventory and checking for expired medications
- Control and check medications outside of the department by performing unit inspections and emergency cart checks
- Appropriately handle controlled substances, including maintaining security, reconciling controlled substance dispenses and accounting for transactions of expired, waste, and return
- Enter patient charges and credit information into the computer
- Maintain logs, records, and other required documentation
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Pharmacy Technician License (IDFPR)
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) certification through PTCB or NHA required for all licensed after 2008 (within 6 months of hire or sooner if required by IL pharmacy practice act)
Nice to have:
- One year or less of related work experience, demonstrating familiarity with routines and procedures customary to the position
Benefits
- Competitive benefits, including tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness
- 401(k) matching
- Lifecycle benefits
Important Details
- Schedule: 40 hours per pay period, rotating 1st and 2nd shift Monday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. with every 3rd weekend evening shift, 2:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and holidays
About the Company
Northwestern Medicine focuses on a patient-first approach, striving for better healthcare outcomes and a positive workplace. The organization offers competitive benefits to its employees.
