Certified Pharmacy Technician (Days)

Nemours is seeking a Certified Pharmacy Technician (Days), to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, Delaware.

Work Schedule:  This is a day shift with an evening rotation. Shifts start as early as 7:00am or as late as 2:00pm if scheduled evening rotation. There is an evening time differential that is a percentage of your hourly pay when you work evenings after a certain hour.  This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, working every 3rd weekend (both Saturday and Sunday). Full-time technicians work two holidays, one in summer and one in winter. Will be trained and staffed in non-sterile and sterile areas.

This Certified Pharmacy Technician position is responsible for providing Pharmacy Services within the Inpatient and Outpatient Pharmacy Department of the Nemours Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children (AIDHC). The position is responsible for assisting in the preparation (including technical aspects of preparation) and delivery of all medications to patients. This position is responsible for providing customer service to internal and external customers, working under the operational supervision of the pharmacist. The majority of tasks and responsibilities are related to preparing, dispensing and distributing medications.

• Performs various functions associated with the AIDHC drug distribution system and demonstrates familiarity with the general duties and responsibilities of a Pharmacy technician including knowledge, competency and understanding of the position to which he/she is assigned which may include: cart fill, Pyxis functionality, IV preparation (e.g. syringes, admixtures, hazardous, continuous renal replacement therapy, total parenteral nutrition, etc.), unit dose packaging, filling outpatient prescriptions (data entry, third party processing, barcoding), unit inspections, oral liquid compounding, stock inventory maintenance and replenishment, code cart process, selling prescriptions at POS, delivery of prescriptions,  and fielding phone calls
• Prepares accurately, through the proper use of equipment and techniques; individualized doses of sterile and non- sterile extemporaneous medication, in an appropriate container, labeled in an appropriate manner and stored at the recommended temperature.
• Medication Delivery. Pharmacy products are distributed accurately, with the appropriate quantity and at the time the product is needed during hourly medication delivery and Batch delivery
• Inventory Control

Job Requirements

• High School Diploma required.
• One (1) year of Pharmacy Technician experience preferred.
• Certified Pharmacy Technician required (CPhT).  Must possess certification from either NHA (National Healthcareer Association) or PTCB (Pharmacy Technician Certification Board). 
• Hospital Pharmacy experience preferred; Children’s Hospital Pharmacy experience preferred.

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