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This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health everyone is a caregiver regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients community and each other. And everyone in their own unique way plays an important part every day.

I. Major Responsibilities:

1. Reviews evaluates and clarifies physician medication orders.
2. Processes orders using pharmacy computer system. Delivers patient medications to patients rooms and medication room areas.
3. Checks for accuracy of all drugs assembled or prepared by pharmacy technicians prior to release for distribution.
4. Assembles prepares and delivers as necessary drugs to patient care areas.
5. Reviews physician orders and interacts with physicians and nurses as necessary relative to appropriateness of therapeutic regimens with preceptor oversight.
6. Provides information concerning therapeutic alternatives to physicians in regards to UMMHC formulary.
7. Troubleshoots technical problems of varying complexity. Serves as resource to less experienced interns in problem resolution.
8. Prepares and packages all forms of medications. Prepares IV drugs using aseptic technique in compounding parenteral nutrition antibiotics chemotherapy and other IV drugs.
9. Maintains inventory including floor stock medication reorders restocks and monitors expiration dates of all medications.
10. Maintains required documentation in accordance with regulatory and hospital requirements and maintains respect for patient confidentiality. Generates necessary pharmacy reports.
11. Conducts medication room inspections in assigned patient care area in accordance with regulatory requirements.
12. Triages pharmacy calls.
13. Maintains a clean work area and assists in quality indicator monitoring.
14. Assists with yearly inventory in assigned areas.
15. Participates in identifying problems or areas for improvement and assists supervisor with problem solving projects and improving operations; participates in Continuous Quality Improvement activities and/or teams.
16. Aids technicians technician supervisors and pharmacists as warranted.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:

Required:
1. Massachusetts registration as an intern with the Board of Registration in Pharmacy is required.
Preferred:

Experience/Skills:
Required:
1. Completion of two years of education within a pharmacist internship program.
OR
2. Designated status as a student beyond the second professional year in an approved college/school of pharmacy in which the candidate is currently enrolled.
3. Familiarity with pharmacy technology and equipment. Ability to troubleshoot technical problems of moderate to high complexity.

Preferred:

Unless certification licensure or registration is required an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.

Were striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health for our patients our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge Listen Communicate Be Responsive Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity and expression protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

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