About the position
At UCHealth, we improve lives by providing top of scope pharmacy support utilizing evidence-based protocols and best practices to promote safety at the point of care. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will manage Automated Dispensing Machines (ADMs) to ensure unit-specific medication is safely available, perform sterile and non-sterile compounding and bulk medication repackaging while maintaining adherence to safety and regulatory standards, and conduct regular audits of medication inventory to identify expired or near-expired items, ensuring prompt removal and replacement. You will also value and effectively partner with a multidisciplinary team to achieve care outcomes, prioritize wellness, and model proficiency through precepting and mentoring those new to healthcare and/or UCHealth.
Responsibilities
- Manage Automated Dispensing Machines (ADMs) to ensure unit-specific medication is safely available.
- Perform sterile and non-sterile compounding and bulk medication repackaging while maintaining adherence to safety and regulatory standards.
- Conduct regular audits of medication inventory to identify expired or near-expired items, ensuring prompt removal and replacement.
- Provide top of scope pharmacy support utilizing evidence-based protocols and best practices to promote safety at the point of care.
- Value and effectively partner with multidisciplinary team to achieve care outcomes.
- Prioritize wellness, a patient perspective and evidence-based practice.
- Model proficiency through precepting and mentoring those new to healthcare and/or UCHealth.
- Contribute proactively to solutions to secure safety and quality at point of care.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED.
- Pharmacy Technician certification from Colorado Board of Pharmacy (PHAT).
- Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT) by Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or equivalent.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage including coverage for eligible dependents.
- 403(b) with employer matching contributions.
- Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence.
- Employer-paid basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options.
- Employer paid short term disability and long-term disability with buy-up coverage options.
- Wellness benefits.
- Full suite of voluntary benefits such as flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care, health savings accounts, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and employee discount programs.
- Education benefits for employees, including the opportunity to be eligible for 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees.
- UCHealth is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
