Pharmacy Technician

**Position name**:

- Pharmacy Technician - PT (23-086)

**Union/Non-Uniont**:

- Non-Union

**Status**:

- Part-Time

**Supervisor**:

- Supervisor, Regional Pharmacy Services

**Posted Date**:

- May 25 2023 12:00AM

**Deadline**:

- Jun 1 2023 4:00PM

**Overview**:
The Pharmacy Technician is accountable for the dispensing & compounding of drugs. Certain duties are supervised by a Pharmacist to ensure the efficient operation of the Department.

The Pharmacy Technician performs duties, as required, for the efficient operation of Pharmacy Services, to allow the Pharmacist to be involved with clinical duties.

**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
- Experience