Veterinary Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician (CARE)

High school diploma or GED and six months of pharmacy experience.
Must be a Registered Pharmacy Technician in accordance with Chapter 465.014 Florida Statutes.

60% Pharmacy support:
Assists in inputting and preparing prescribed drugs for veterinary patients.
Retrieves orders completes data entry labels records price data and assists in preparing nonsterile and sterile medications for compounding.
Delivers drugs for inpatient fills to veterinary patient care areas.
Retrieves drug orders for hospital floor stock and cost centers per service order preparing for pharmacist check.
Assists in maintaining pharmacy files and records as required by State and Federal Law and by Pharmacy policies and procedures.

20% Inventory support:
Independently retrieves drugs for OMNIcell restocks for pharmacist check.
Assists with maintaining OMNICELL pharmaceutical and supply inventory and reconciling associated transactions.
Assists in ordering maintaining and estimating demand for Pharmaceutical inventories.
Rotates stock and removes outdates from pharmacy shelves.
10% Customer Service and Communication:
Collects client payments and processes credit payments for pharmaceuticals purchased and mailed.
Communicates with clients regarding veterinary prescriptions under pharmacist supervision and documents communications in patient record.
Familiarizes and assist students residents and clinicians with available veterinary pharmaceuticals and supplies.

10% Teamwork
Collaborates with coworkers and staff to continuously improve and streamline processes.
Resolves transaction questions in cooperation with client services staff and other hospital services.
Actively participates in Continuous Quality Assurance program for pharmacy.
Communicates with pharmacy team to prioritize prescription workflows and adjust to emergencies and immediate patient care need.

19.50-21.50 /hour

1. Veterinary pharmacy hospital and retail pharmacy technician experience preferred.
2. Prior experience working with automated dispensing machines in a veterinary hospital environment preferred.
3. Prior experience compounding both nonsterile and sterile veterinary pharmacy prescriptions is preferred.
4. Ability to work in data bases (Excel) and word processing programs (Word) is preferred.
5. Prior work experience using Cornerstone electronic medical record program is preferred.
6. Strong mathematics skills including addition subtraction multiplication and division are preferred.

Florida Pharmacy Technician license required for application to be considered.

This position is eligible for Veterans preference. If you are claiming Veterans preference please upload a copy of your DD 214 Member Copy 4 with your application for consideration. See our Veterans Preference Pagefor more specific information.

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.