Pharmacy Technician, Outpatient Surgery - Salem, NH:
Mass General Brigham Ambulatory

Description
About Us

Mass General Brigham Integrated Care is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to develop new high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care.This work stems from Mass General Brigham's unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. MGB Integrated Care will provide a wide range of offerings, including outpatient surgery, imaging, primary care, behavioral and mental health, and specialty care, both digitally as well as at physical locations across the state and region.

We aspire to be people's first choice for health and care

- rooted in well-being and kindness -

by bringing world-class care closer to home (or at home!) and

being the bridge to world-renowned hospitals and research when needed.

We are looking for team members who possess not only the relevant skills and growth potential, but positive attitudes, flexibility, and creative mindsets to join our expanding team. Opportunities exist for team members to contribute both in their primary domain as well as in other areas of the organization.

Our core values are shared fundamental beliefs that guide our decision-making and behavior and bind us together as a team. At MGB Integrated Care, we are:

• Bravely Human: We approach our work with empathy, vulnerability, and kindness.
• Clearly Honest: We seek to provide clarity amongst our teams and patients.
• Proudly Collaborative: We are all part of a team - each bringing our unique talents to bear.
• Intentionally Consistent: We intentionally live our purpose, providing a cohesive experience for both patients and providers.
• Exceptionally Creative: We continue to learn, grow, and iterate on the ways we work.

The Opportunity: Outpatient Surgery Pharmacy Technician

Why This Role Is Important

Under the direction of the Director of Ambulatory Pharmacy Services and onsite Outpatient Surgery Pharmacist, the Outpatient Surgery Pharmacy Technician will perform a variety of professional level functions to assist in providing patients with optimal pharmaceutical care. The pharmacy technician's efforts will be directed primarily toward automated medication systems management, checking expiration dates on medications, sterile compounding, setting up, repackaging, and labeling medication doses of various forms, dispensing, training personnel, medication quality audits for periprocedural areas and clinics, inventory management, anesthesia tray build/maintenance, emergency carts/kits build/management, and environmental management

What You'll Work On

The Outpatient Surgery Pharmacy Technician will be primarily accountable for:

• Maintaining the organization and cleanliness of the pharmacy
• Assisting pharmacist with ordering medication through correct account, receiving, checking-in, rotating, and storing all medications and supplies received from manufacturers, wholesalers, and materials management
• Checking, stocking, and triaging all automated medication dispensing cabinets (located in the operating rooms, anesthesia workrooms, sterile core, and PACU area) under the direction of a pharmacist
• Updating and filling code carts, emergency kits, and anesthesia trays under the direction of a pharmacist
• Completing quarterly medication quality audits for the OR Pharmacy satellite, perioperative area, and clinics where medications are stored and dispensed
• Identifying, segregating, and logging expired medications
• Identifying industry drug shortages and reporting trends to on-site pharmacist
• Receiving surgery center staff at pharmacy entrance and triages incoming calls
• Prepares patient-specific and bulk lots of sterile products using aseptic techniques per USP
• Completing checklist for hood monitoring and daily clean room cleaning for quality assurance
• Performing required media fill, garbing, and fingerprint testing as specified in UPS
• Completing required competencies and training for sterile compounding and environmental monitoring procedures
• Assisting in training of pharmacy staff in nonhazardous compounding, medication handling, and preparation (under supervision of pharmacist).
• Understanding and performing necessary functions in Epic including dispense prep and compounding and repackaging
• Understanding the laws and regulations regarding the dispensing and handling of controlled substance narcotics
• Participating in physical inventory of all pharmaceutical products when requested
• Begin an active participant in process improvement efforts related to applicable areas of medication management and workflow
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications
Required Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Pharmacy technician licensure in New Hampshire
• Sterile compounding training

Preferred Experience We Hope You Have

• 2 years of hospital-based experience
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) certification
• Certified Compounded Sterile Preparation Technician (CSPT)

Etc.

• Primary Location: Salem, NH

• Travel Requirements: TBD as subsequent sites are completed

• Schedule: Monday to Friday, occasional weekends and extended hours

• Job Type: Full-time

EEO Statement
Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.