Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT), Compensation and Benefits, Concrete, Employee Benefits, High School Diploma, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Medications, Medicine, Memory Hardware, Negotiation Skills, Onboarding, Patient Care, Pharmacy, Physical Demands, Policy Development, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Development, Quality of Care, Regulatory Compliance, Research Skills, Risk, Safety/Work Safety, Training Program
Description
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Summary:
- Position Summary:
- Coordinate and provide leadership for the daily functions of the pharmacy technicians in a manner so as to provide efficient pharmacy services. Serve as subject matter expert for the roles and duties of pharmacy technicians at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health LGH . Represents the perspective of the pharmacy technicians within the departments leadership team.
- Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:
- Coordinates daily activities of pharmacy techncians, performance of medication delivery systems, and department workflows.
- Participates in and drives engagement of pharmacy technicians in continues improvement projects and department initiatives.
- Supports the recruitment, on-boarding, and development of pharmacy technicians.
- Supports department efforts around safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
- Provides direct leadership to pharmacy technicians and potentially lead technicians.
- Ensures appropriate communication between members of the team including locations and shifts.
- Serves as a subject matter expert in terms of progressive ways to use pharmacy technicans to deliver optimal care within LGH.
- The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
- Assists other managers supervisors in creation of policy and procedures.
- Observes and reports to department manager director unusual situations, occurrences, or complaints.
- Other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities:
- Minimum Required Qualifications:
- High school diploma or successful completion of general educational development GED exam.
- National pharmacy technician certification CPhT required.
- Five 5 years of pharmacy technician experience.
- A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program.
- Completion of ASHP accredited or comparable pharmacy techinician training program
- Attention Concentration: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others.
- The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
- New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material.
- The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively. change frequently. The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions is mandatory.
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought.
- The position deals with issues or problems that often require thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions. Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act.
- Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
- Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
- Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
- Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
- Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
Credentials:
- Certified Pharmacy Technician - PTCB (Required)
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
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