Pharmacy Technician, Certified or Trainee – North Liberty Campus

The University of Iowa Health Care, Department of Pharmaceutical Care, is seeking full-time Pharmacy Technicians to join or North Liberty Campus. The new University of Iowa Health Care North Liberty Campus will open in the Spring of 2025. This 469,000 square foot facility will be home to UI Health Care’s nationally recognized Orthopedics service line, offering comprehensive, coordinated, and accessible care across the outpatient, inpatient, and surgical venues. These state-of-the-art clinical facilities will also include a full-service community imaging center, laboratory services, physical therapy, retail pharmacy, and emergency department as well as an array of support services. The facility has been designed to support a superior patient and staff experience; excellence across our patient care, teaching, and research missions; convenient access to services; and engaging community partnerships. UI Health Care is seeking a welcoming, highly skilled, and collaborative workforce to be a part of the opening team for this superb new campus, and to help further our mission of: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives. 

Under general pharmacist supervision, the pharmacy technician plays a vital role in the healthcare team, providing essential support to pharmacists and other health care professionals in delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care to both inpatient and outpatient populations. This position involves accurately preparing and dispensing medications, managing inventory, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards. All pharmacy technicians must be certified within one year of employment. If certification is not achieved by the end of year one, individuals will be terminated.

Position Responsibilities:

1. Provide patient/customer service. Communicate with the general public, patients, and other health care personnel in accordance with established guidelines.
2. Answer telephone lines and triage phone calls per policies and procedures.
3. Prepare medications/prescriptions for patients in the hospital, clinic, and community.
4. Accurately compound medications requested for inpatient medication orders, clinic doses, and prescriptions.

• Maintain competencies for sterile and non-sterile product preparation.
• Complete quality assurance activities and quality control records for documentation of appropriate sterile and non-sterile compounding processes

1. Perform activities associated with inventory maintenance.

• Maintain medication inventory levels according to established par levels.
• Return to stock unused medications that have been returned to pharmacy from the inpatient units/clinics or prescriptions that have not been picked up by patients.
• Restock and reorder supplies as needed.
• Perform daily, weekly, monthly drug inventories and audits as required.
• Review medication inventory for expired medications.

1. Deliver medications to patient care areas including restocking automated dispensing machines.
2. Maintain accurate controls and security regarding controlled substances both in and out of the pharmacy area, including inventory records, preparation records, and documentation of delivery to patient care areas.
3. Generate, review, and maintain (includes filing) appropriate records related to medication distribution, dispensing, and disposal.
4. Utilize various equipment needed for the preparation of medications (e.g., laminar flow hoods, computerized label printers, pharmaceutical packaging and compounding equipment, automated dispensing equipment, and pneumatic tube system.
5. Maintain proper handling and safety precautions regarding medications that are considered hazardous (antineoplastic medications) or medications that become hazardous upon waste (EPA designated waste)
6. Assist with on-the-job training new technicians.
7. Perform other position expectations required of all department staff as outlined in department policies and procedures.
8. Perform tasks as assigned by the pharmacist, senior technician, or pharmacy manager.

The Department of Pharmaceutical Care intends to hire at either the Pharmacy Technician, Trainee classification, or Pharmacy Technician, Certified, based on the qualifications of the successful candidate. Please indicate in your application materials the position you wish to be considered for or indicate both.

Certified Technician Minimum Eligibility Requirements:

1. Registered with the Pharmacy Board at the time of hire.
2. National certification through the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or the National Healthcareer Association (NHA). Must meet ongoing education requirements and maintain certification.
3. High school diploma or the equivalent.
4. Experience
5. Any combination of two years of post-high school experience and/or education in the natural sciences OR
6. Satisfactory completion of an accredited pharmacy technician training program

Trainee Technician Minimum Eligibility Requirements:

1. Registered with the Pharmacy Board at the time of hire.
2. All pharmacy technicians must be certified within one year of employment.
3. High school diploma or the equivalent.
4. Experience:
5. Any combination of two years of post-high school experience and/or education in the natural sciences OR
6. Satisfactory completion of an accredited pharmacy technician training program.

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to perform ratio/proportion equations as demonstrated by a work sample.
• Experience in a retail pharmacy setting.
• Experience with inventory maintenance activities.
• Experience working in a team environment.
• Experience working in a detail-oriented work environment.
• Knowledge of windows-based computer programs.
• Experience working in healthcare with one-on-one patient interaction and experience handling challenging interactions in the work environment.
• Prefer National Career Readiness Certificate at Silver Level, are desirable.

Position and Application details:

Resume is preferred to be considered for an interview, applicants must upload the document and mark them as a “Relevant File” to the submission:

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 10 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process. 

For additional questions, please contact Penni Berger at penelope-berger@uiowa.edu

The Department of Pharmaceutical Care intends to hire at either the Pharmacy Technician, Trainee classification, or Pharmacy Technician, Certified, based on the qualifications of the successful candidate. Please indicate in your application materials the position you wish to be considered for or indicate both.

Additional Information

• Classification Title: Pharmacy Technician, Certified
• Appointment Type: Merit
• Schedule: Full-time

Compensation

• Pay Level: 10

Contact Information

• Organization: Healthcare
• Contact Name: Penni Berger
• Contact Email: penelope-berger@uiowa.edu

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