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Posted: 05-May-22
Location: Denver, Colorado
Salary: Open
Categories:
Pharmacy
To show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we will also offer a $3500 sign-on bonus for full time and a $1750 sign-on bonus for part time Certified Pharmacy Technicians with more than 1+ years of experience.
You.
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Lead Outpatient Pharmacy Technician.
Your compassion is tangible: whether your patient is 18 or 85, they feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support.
You know when to move quickly. When to sit quietly. When to laugh loudly.
Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.
Us.
SCL Health Medical Group is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. With locations throughout Colorado and Montana, we offer a wide variety of primary and specialty care services.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
We.
Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.
Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.
Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
Your day.
As a Lead Pharm Tech, you need to know how to:
- Leads the technician work in the department. Implements directives related to adjusting staffing levels based on service needs and volumes. Acts as a resource and provides technical support.
- Participates and leads improvement initiatives and implementation of new processes and procedures. Coordinates orientation and training of new associates. Ensures staff competency through proper training techniques and conducts quality audits.
- Participates in problem solving to address issues relating to patient safety, care and service. Supports and promotes effective working relations and works effectively as part of a department/unit team and interdepartmentally to facilitate that departmentâ™s ability to meet its goals and objective. Collaborates with department leadership team to coordinate care with other departments and promote the highest level of patient care and satisfaction.
- Participates in leading quality and performance improvement initiatives. Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines and established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Assists with all phases of pharmacy services. Works with patients, providers, and insurance companies to obtain prior authorizations. Answers phones and notes from physicians in a timely manner. Accurately reads, interprets and enters prescriptions in a timely manner. Routes questionable prescriptions to the pharmacist for completion. Makes outbound calls / faxing the physicians for prescription clarification, substitutions and formulary changes as needed.
- Prepares medication orders (i.e., chemotherapy, IV admixtures, compounding) according to established policies, procedures, and protocols. Prepares complex sterile compounded IV products, including daily batch orders, stat and other emergency medications and TPN formulations.
- Assists pharmacist by gathering clinical information on patients.
- Accurately fills and maintains medications supplies in the automatic dispensing system including verifying and monitoring controlled substance inventories as required. Packages and labels medications accurately and appropriately to minimize waste. Verifies and monitors controlled substance inventories as required by daily shift assignment. Completes charges from previous dayâ™s orders and assures that wastage is charged appropriately and eliminated.
- Completes documentation according to departmental standards. Maintains cleanliness of all pharmacy working areas, including Hazardous Waste Removal as necessary.
Your experience.
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
- High School Diploma or GED is required.
- Pharmacy Technician certification (CPhT) is required.
- Two (2) years working as a certified pharmacy tech in a hospital, retail, or specialty pharmacy setting, required
- Completion of technician-training program is preferred.
Your next move.
Now that you know more about being a Lead Pharm Tech on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.