Specialty Pharmacy Technician II – Paragon Healthcare

Specialty Pharmacy Technician II – Paragon Healthcare

Requirements

• Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Requires a minimum 2 years experience as pharmacy technician with training/experience in alternate site/home health pharmacy practice and the preparation of sterile products.
• Requires a current, active, valid and unrestricted Certified Pharmacy Technician certificate and/or license.
• Continuing education necessary to maintain current licensure in all states licensed.
• Maintain a current pharmacy technician certificate where required by law and/or regulation.
• Multi-state certification is required if this individual is providing services in multiple states.
• For Paragon and Carelon Health business unit, satisfactory completion of a Tuberculosis test is a requirement for this position.

Responsibilities

• Assists the pharmacist with dispensing items a physician orders to a valid prescription adhering to the appropriate guidelines and policies.
• Check for expired / unusable products and disposes of them properly.
• Answers and initiates communications related to providing pharmaceutical care.
• Prepares delivery tickets. Assists the patient delivery representative in orders, receiving, maintaining, and tracking all infusion-related equipment.
• Fulfills the duties of the patient delivery representative when required.
• Mixing technician for compounding all sterile IV products such as: antibiotics, TPN, inotropes, pain bags, hydration, push meds.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions. Utilize low, medium, and high-risk compounding techniques.
• Completes daily cleaning, monthly cleaning, in-process cleaning, equipment calibration.
• Follows a process to minimize mis-fills, product waste, and HIPAA violations.
• Checks and maintains inventory levels; places inventory orders, logs in new inventories.
• Completes negative counts, daptomycin add-backs, and wholesaler orders promptly.
• Completes drug expiration review monthly. Assists with any inventory-related questions from team members daily and during quarterly inventory.
• Dispenses to patients and completes assessments. Dispenses for active patients by established cut-off times.
• May be responsible for overnight deliveries.
• Able to troubleshoot pump issues without assistance from team members or supervisors.
• Follows up on hospitalization and pending pump pick-up report.
• Documents QARs/indicators appropriately in the portal without prompts.
• Maximizes the efficiency and productivity of the pharmacy and delivery operations.
• Strives to achieve cost effectiveness in all areas (including purchasing, inventory control, staffing delivery services).

Preferred Qualifications

• ACPE IV certification preferred.
• Dispensing experience preferred.