Pharmacy Technician at PurpleSource Healthcare

Job Summary

• Supports pharmacological services by stocking, assembling, and distributing medications. To process prescriptions and also get the pharmacy ready for business on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
• Maintaining a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Organizing medications for pharmacist to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
• Maintaining records by recording and filing physicians' orders and prescriptions.
• Generating revenues by calculating and recording correctly all charges to be issued.
• Ensuring medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
• Preparing reports by collecting and summarizing information.
• Contributing to team efforts by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Receiving and verifying prescriptions for validity.
• Sterilizing the counter tops, scales, pill counting trays, and other medication measuring devices.
• Turning on equipment such as computers, scales, printers and fax machines.
• Greeting the patient and accepting their prescription.
• Dispensing prescribed medications.
• Verifying medications for expiry dates and keeping inventory records of this.
• Careful storage and disposal of patient information
• Proper packaging and trashing of expired drugs.
• Inputting the prescription date into the computer or into provided record keeping documents and processing the patient‘s insurance.
• Administrative and bookkeeping tasks, inventory control, stocking shelves, and data entry.

Qualifications

• Pharmacy Technician certificate from recognized schools of health technologies.
• A minimum of OND/HND in Social or Medical Science related disciplines.

Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years experience as a Pharmacy Technician

Skills:

• Detail oriented
• Listening skills
• Ability to compute accurately
• Organizational skills.