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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a Pharmacy Technician Coordinator to our growing Pharmacy team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.
At UConn Health, this class is accountable for outpatient/specialty pharmacy coordination and acting as a working supervisor of technical pharmacy support staff in the dispensing of prescription medication including but not limited to specialty and wholesale products. This position monitors controlled substance inventories and ensures regulation and accreditation adherence. This position will work in the specialty pharmacy at UConn Health Pharmacy Services located in Farmington, CT.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-classified
SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Works under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED: Leads Pharmacy Technicians and other lower level staff assigned to the pharmacy.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:
- Knowledge of principles and practices of pharmacy operations
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical and medical terms, abbreviations and symbols commonly used in prescribing, dispensing and record keeping of medications
- Knowledge of basic chemistry
- Knowledge of documentation, quality assurance and security requirements of accrediting bodies
- Interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Ability to perform mathematical calculations
- Ability to identify drugs, drug dosages, routes of administration, dosage forms and storage requirements
- Ability to utilize computer software
- Ability to resolve conflict and mediate
- Supervisory ability
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE:
- Three (3) years of experience working as a registered Pharmacy Technician in retail or specialty pharmacy
- Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain Pharmacy Technician certification through the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or the National Health Career Association (NHCA)
- Incumbents must possess and maintain CT Pharmacy Technician registration with the Department of Consumer Protection
- Incumbents in this class may be required to travel, possess, and retain a valid motor vehicle driver license
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in the coordination of an inpatient hospital pharmacy
- IV and chemo admixture experience
- Considerable knowledge of and ability to ensure clean room environments are within control through regulatory monitoring as outlined in USP 797 regulations
- Experience in the coordination, oversight, and quality monitoring of patient-specific medication supply utilization, including appropriate receipt, storage, billing, documentation, and disposal of said medications
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Incumbents in this class must be able to stand and/or walk for assigned shift; may have exposure to communicable and/or infectious diseases; may be exposed to disagreeable conditions and may be required to do some lifting.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
- Plans pharmacy support staff workflow and determines priorities
- Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work
- Establishes and maintains pharmacy support staff procedures
- Provides staff training and assistance
- Conducts or assists in performance evaluations
- Troubleshoot and reconcile service issues
- Ensure all Pharmacy Technicians complete/obtain annual Certification/Registration
- Monitors and participates in maintaining staff competencies
- Assists in maintaining regulatory readiness
- Acts as liaison with operating units, agencies and outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures
- Participates in ensuring pharmacy quality assurance standards are maintained and safety related policies and procedures are implemented and followed
- Ensures proper receipt and Inventory for controlled substances
- Analyzes daily compare report to ensure accurate receipt to designated location
- Investigate all controlled substance discrepancy resolutions and non-resolutions
- Prepares unresolved discrepancy reports
- Monitors filing and storage/security access for controlled substance returns to C-II safe
- Assists Pharmacist in narcotic drug control management
- Performs electronic reconciliation of drug receipts, e.g., 340B program
- Reviews prescription charges for accuracy
- Performs Pharmacy Technician duties and related duties as required
ADDITIONAL SITE SPECIFIC DUTIES:
- Performs electronic reconciliation of drug receipts, e.g., Wholesale, Pyxis
- Handles hazardous products under URAC standards as needed
SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 hours per week, primarily days, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., flexibility required to cover evenings and nights to accommodate departmental needs, weekend and holiday coverage as assigned, 30 minute unpaid meal break.
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission, academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
