Pharmacy Technician/ Pharmacy Tech

Company: Spectraforce Technologies Inc
Location: West Sacramento
Posted on: January 8, 2022

Job Description:

Job Title- Pharmacy Technician Location- West Sacramento, CA 95605 Duration- 6 Months Shift- Sunday- Thursday ( 40 hrs/ week) Job Description- Skills- 2+ years of pharmacy operation experience. Duties and Responsibilities-

• Should be able to accurately and efficiently fill prescription requests in a high volume automated refill setting.
• Helps in preparing, packages, and distributes medications in a fast-paced production environment. Maintains continuous, consistent work flow in order to meet daily production goals; and has the ability to work productively either independently or as a team with acute attention to detail while performing repetitive tasks.
• Manually fill prescription vials with prescribed tablets and capsules.
• Must read computer generated screens to find indicated merchandise on labeled shelves, verify size and strength.
• Perform basic mathematical reasoning to either count or calculate appropriate number of units needed to fill prescriptions.
• Replenish medication in automated dispensing cells to full capacity; opening large quantities of bottles and cases of product.
• Use of handheld scanner unit to scan barcodes of product, entering expiration and lot information into computer application.
• Maintains high level of focus to avoid cross contamination and performs quality assurance check for expired and/or damaged product.
• Completes weekly cycle counts as assigned by Inventory Mgr. Requires audits of cell inventory, counting product at primary and secondary bin locations.
• Assists with research and identification of root cause of discrepancies as needed.
• Prepare cold chain and specialty prescriptions following special requirements for handling and packing.
• Assists with packing and shipping of prescriptions.
• Understands and abides by federal and state HIPAA laws as well as pharmacy standard procedures to ensure patient safety and privacy.
• Demonstrate problem resolution skills: ability to recognize, address and escalate issues to management.
• Perform cleaning and maintenance on all cells/cassettes as needed. Includes dissembling of automated cells, replacing broken or missing parts, and performing calibration audits. Note: This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, SPECTRAFORCE and the assigned client reserve the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned. Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law. Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, colour, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at if you require a reasonable accommodation. For the full list of our open positions, please check Job Requirements:Duties and Responsibilities---
  • Should be able to accurately and efficiently fill prescription requests in a high volume automated refill setting.
  • Helps in--preparing, packages, and distributes medications in a fast-paced production environment. Maintains continuous, consistent work flow in order to meet daily production goals; and has the ability to work productively either independently or as a team with acute attention to detail while performing repetitive tasks.
  • Manually fill prescription vials with prescribed tablets and capsules.
  • Must read computer generated screens to find indicated merchandise on labeled shelves, verify size and strength.
  • Perform basic mathematical reasoning to either count or calculate appropriate number of units needed to fill prescriptions.
  • Replenish medication in automated dispensing cells to full capacity; opening large quantities of bottles and cases of product.
  • Use of handheld scanner unit to scan barcodes of product, entering expiration and lot information into computer application.
  • Maintains high level of focus to avoid cross contamination and performs quality assurance check for expired and/or damaged product.
  • Completes weekly cycle counts as assigned by Inventory Mgr. Requires audits of cell inventory, counting product at primary and secondary bin locations.
  • Assists with research and identification of root cause of discrepancies as needed.
  • Prepare cold chain and specialty prescriptions following special requirements for handling and packing.
  • Assists with packing and shipping of prescriptions.
  • Understands and abides by federal and state HIPAA laws as well as pharmacy standard procedures to ensure patient safety and privacy.
  • Demonstrate problem resolution skills: ability to recognize, address and escalate issues to management.
  • Perform cleaning and maintenance on all cells/cassettes as needed. Includes dissembling of automated cells, replacing broken or missing parts, and performing calibration audits.

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