Pharmacy Technician Specialist Pyxis

Orlando, Florida


Employer: AdventHealth
Industry: Pharmacy
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

Benefits from Day One

Paid Days Off from Day One

Debt-free Education* (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense)

Sign-on Bonus up to $2500

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It's about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule : Full Time

S location Bonus* hift : M-F, 10:30am - 7pm

The community you'll be caring for:

Located on a lush tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando

We offer great benefits with immediate Health Insurance coverage

Career growth and advancement potential

Serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America

AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country

We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year

The role you'll contribute:

Pharmacy Operations

• Maintains knowledge of the operational functions:

• Central operations

• Sterile and hazardous medications compounding

• Decentral operations

• Controlled substances

Pharmacy Practice

• Facilitates medication safety practices by identifying and reporting potential medication errors such as look-alike sound-alike medications

• Prepares and delivers accurate, safe and timely medication

• Effectively collaborates with other hospital departments and strategic business unit leaders to advance patient care services and pharmacy programs

Teamwork and Inter-Professional Collaboration

• Presents to assigned areas on time and ready to work and does not exhibit unscheduled absenteeism

• Supports continuity between shifts, among pharmacy staff assignments, and across pharmacy practice areas

• Works effectively with all members of the healthcare team to ensure the best outcome for the patient

• Demonstrates sensitivity to the perspective of the patient, caregiver, or health care colleague in all communications

Teaching, Training, Precepting, and Mentorship

• Mentors new staff and assists with training

• Develops and maintains quality training opportunities and relationships for teaching and precepting

• Supports pharmacy residency and student experiences, if applicable

Quality Improvement, Regulatory Compliance, and Accreditation

• Supports and participates in medication - use process improvements led by colleagues and peers

• Supports regulatory compliance initiatives and supports institutional accreditation processes

• Identifies practice-related and quality issues which require evaluation

Professional Activities and Practice Advancements

• Maintains a commitment to pharmacy practice by supporting improvements in and contributions to pharmacy practice

Leadership and Organizational Involvement

• Participates in departmental meetings

• Participates in departmental educational activities

• Supports practice advancement initiatives, clinical research projects, and stewardship initiatives led by colleagues and peers

Diversion Prevention Analyst:

• Working knowledge of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) code of federal regulations and State Board of Pharmacy regulations on controlled substances

• Perform regular review of multiple data sources (including transaction reports for medication cabinets, diversion detection software reports, controlled substance Safe, inventories, medical records, and purchase data) to identify drug diversion activities

Medication History Specialist:

• Act as Medication History ambassador to hospital facilities across the system to connect with department customers and identify high impact process improvements

• Triage workload and workflow issues across multiple facilities to optimize use of labor

• Build and/or maintain database and metrics for the collection of medication history and completion of medication reconciliation

• Provide training to new personnel in the department regarding medication history and medication reconciliation workflow

Investigational Drug Specialist

• Prepare oral and intravenous investigational products in accordance with investigational protocol procedures

• Maintain confidential information and assists in the record keeping related to clinical trials required by the research protocols, including investigational product storage requirements.

• Manage the clinical investigational drug inventory, both physical and Investigational Drug Software.

• Provide technical assistance with clinical trial protocols

• Utilize multiple web-based programs to access research protocol training programs, order investigational product, and verify receipt and disposition of investigational product

• Provide research pharmacy training to technician students, pharmacy students, and pharmacy residents, if applicable

• Communicate with and provides support to external research study sponsors and monitors, and internal research study coordinators and regulatory staff

• Participate in Site Initiation Visits (SIVs) and all follow-up research study monitoring visits, if applicable

Qualifications
The expertise and experiences you'll need to succeed:

EDUCATION REQUIRED :

• High school or equivalent

• Three years of hospital pharmacy experience

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

• Applicable State Pharmacy Technician Registration (RPT) REQUIRED

• Current certification from Nationally recognized Board/Association, if applicable per state legislation

• Sterile Compounding Certification, if applicable per state legislation

Created: 2024-05-03
Reference: 24010289
Country: United States
State: Florida
City: Orlando
ZIP: 32829