Pharmacy Technician

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The certified Clinical Pharmacy Technician position is a relatively new and expanding role within Jefferson Home Infusion Service (JHIS) and the clinical pharmacy team. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• The Clinical Pharmacy Technician will support clinical pharmacists and work closely with other members of the JHIS interdisciplinary team (nursing, pharmacy, dietitians, fulfillment and dispatch) to assure the needs of our patients and team are met in a safe, accurate and timely manner
• This is a unique, rewarding role allowing your pharmacy technician skills, experience, personal touch and customer service skills to be put to work during clinical coordination by telephone
• Communicating directly with patients, supporting essential tasks that result in safe and quality care for patients who receive intravenous medications or nutrition therapy at home
• Assure that patients have the supplies, DME, flush solution required to infuse their medications
• Facilitate timely medication and supply deliveries as well as retrieval of supplies from the patientrsquo;s home as needed
• Document all patient communications, triage responses, supply management or other activities in the patient medical record
• Coordinate/manage the schedule for patient deliveries, inventory and assist in the creation and management of supply templates in the pharmacy software system
• Entry of patient home medication profiles into the JHIS pharmacy software system
• Timely retrieval of patient lab test results from lab portals and assure transmission to prescriber practices
• Collaborate with team to assure JHIS has authorization to provide therapy, insurance coverage and active orders to provide prescribed therapy
• Participate in interdisciplinary committees or meetings

middot; Qualifications

middot; High school diploma or GED Required.

middot; Pharmacy Technician Certification

middot; Valid Driverrsquo;s License

Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jeffersonrsquo;s clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.

About Jefferson

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow#39;s professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educashy;tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.