Pharmacy Technician

**Position name**:

- Pharmacy Technician - TPT (24-041)

**Union/Non-Uniont**:

- Non-Union

**Status**:

- Temporary Part-time

**Supervisor**:

- Supervisor, Regional Pharmacy Services

**Posted Date**:

- Apr 11 2024 12:00AM

**Deadline**:

- Apr 19 2024 4:00PM

**Qualifications**:
Education
- Registered with Ontario College of Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Technician Diploma from a recognized Community College

Experience
- 3 years hospital pharmacy practice experience preferred

**Required Skills**:
Drug Distribution
- Accurate order entry and patient profile maintenance of electronic health record
- Distribution and other drug stock activities, prescription transfers and refills
- Coordination of drug delivery
- Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC), wardstock replenishment and maintenance of medication stock levels in patient care areas
- Narcotic and Controlled Drug distribution and record keeping
- Daily audit of narcotic sheets, if applicable
- Investigation of narcotic discrepancies
- Pharmacy narcotic counts
- Expiry date checks
- Instruct patients where special requirements have been identified, within scope of practice
- Crash cart replenishment as required
- Drug prepackaging
- Inventory control

Dispensing Medication
- Delegated dispensing activities, verifying prescriptions, dispensing and check
- Collect and review prescriptions and requisitions
- Computerized order entry of prescriptions for dispensing, utilizing applicable hospital Automatic Stop Order (ASO) and Automatic Substitution policies
- Responsible for investigation of missing doses on the nursing units
- Housekeeping duties to maintain orderly pharmacy environment
- Compound and manufacture drug products as required
- Maintain and file prescription data
- Report promptly any medication errors to the pharmacist and complete or ensure completion of appropriate documentation
- Communicate promptly to the pharmacist any patient care issues that arise

Material Management
- Maintenance of drug stock quotas
- Monitoring stock levels to ensure sufficient quantities for optimal operation
- Prepare and send purchase orders and contact suppliers as required
- Receive and check drug purchases
- Record maintenance
- Rotating Stock and monitoring of expiry dates
- Invoicing drug items to other hospitals, pharmacies or departments
- Third party billing (e.g., Cancer Care Ontario)
- Participation in annual departmental inventory
- Review and maintain organizational buying group contracts
- Electronic update of drug and vendor data
- Process buying group contract refund claims
- Coordinate and control expired drug inventory
- Ensure medication packaging complies with standards and to by utilized by electronic health record

Patient/Medication Safety
- Report Concerns about Safety issues
- Change practices to enhance safety
- Ask for help when needed
- Enhance teamwork
- Review and follow Safety Literature

Other
- Follow the Standards of Practice for Pharmacy Technicians developed by the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) and adopted by the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP)
- Communicate promptly to the pharmacist any drug information questions from physicians or nursing staff
- Communicate with pharmacist, nursing and technician staff to ensure the efficient operation of the pharmacy department, and optimal patient care
- Support Quality & Risk Management initiatives and identify opportunities for personal and professional improvement
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuing education
- Demonstrate professional attitude towards co-workers and hospital staff
- Workload measurement data collection and statistics maintenance
- Tabulation of month-end workload measurement data
- Perform additional related duties as may be assigned
- Participation in regular departmental staff meetings
- Participate in the education of nursing students, pharmacy / pharmacy technician students and the orientation of new staff

Organizational Wellness
- Report hazards/injuries to immediate supervisor;
- Follow established hospital safe work practices/procedures and policies; and

Wear/use required PPE.

**Abilities**:

- Organized and self-directed
- Demonstrated ability to function as part of a team
- Able to work independently, with initiative and within structured guidelines
- Good written and verbal communications skills
- Computer literate; experience with the Meditech System preferred
- Well-developed pharmaceutical calculation skill
- Experienced aseptic technique and handling of chemotherapeutic agents
- Experienced in drug order entry
- Knowledgeable of drug distribution systems
- Experienced with drug purchasing and inventory control
- Ability to participate in a regular on-call rotation as required
- As part of the assessment process applicants may be required to complete a written and/or practical test- Personal information is collected under FIPPA and is used to determine eligibility for potential employment and if hired, the info