Share Email Opening Title Pharmacy Technician - 4168  Description Job Title: Pharmacy Technician Department: Tohono O'odham Nation Health Care (TONHC) Division: Pharmacy Status: Non-Exempt/Full-Time Salary: $18.24/hr Position Summary: The incumbent performs various pharmacy-related duties for the Pharmacy Department, such as maintaining medication supplies, ordering drugs from the supply department, and stocking medications. Scope of Work: This position is located in the Tohono O’odham Nation Sells Hospital or Health Care Centers within the service area. Incumbent provides pharmacy services as directed or assigned by a Clinical Pharmacist. The incumbent is under the immediate supervision of the Clinical Pharmacist. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Depending on the area of assignment, an incumbent may not be required to perform some of the duties listed below): Order drugs from the supply department, except class II narcotics. Responsible for keeping the supply of medications needed on hand. Keeps narcotic files on nursing units and emergency room up to date. Prepare off-schedule drug requisitions as necessary and checks the status of backorder drugs. Perform some clerical duties in the absence of clerical staff. Responsible for collecting such data as may be required and writing such reports as may be assigned. Shelves and stores all incoming drugs and supplies, assuring that all items requiring special handling receive the same and maintain proper stock rotation. Provides warehousing activities maximize efficiency, so storage space is used with maximum efficiency per the pharmacy storage plan. Stocks and maintains the emergency drug carts by utilizing a prepared checklist. Maintain an adequate working shelf stock of drugs in the pharmacy’s dispensing area. Inventories and maintains the night drug cabinet stock in the emergency room. Responsible for maintaining the pharmacies and storage areas in a neat, clean, and orderly condition. Independently fills inpatient and outpatient drug requisitions from prepackaged stock containers and original stock containers. Check all nursing drug storage areas for expired drugs. Prepackage drugs from bulk containers to smaller outpatient dispensing units for use in filling prescriptions. Strip packaged medications used in the operation of the inpatient unit dose drug distribution system. Responsible for printing all labels used in the prepackaging process. Counts and pours drugs used in the filling of a prescription. Routinely calls patients to the outpatient pharmacy consultation rooms. Prepare sterile intravenous admixtures and chemotherapeutic agents; light checks all intravenous solutions arid admixtures issued through the pharmacy. Bulks compound pharmaceutical preparations as such as ointment, solutions, etc. Operate inpatient and outpatient pharmacies’ computers, the hospital computer system, and PC’s. Contribute to a team effort. Performs other job-related duties as assigned. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of the Tohono O’odham culture, customs, and traditions. Knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, and techniques of pharmacy to provide direct patient services. Knowledge of State and Federal laws and regulations about pharmacy operations. Knowledge, or ability to acquire knowledge, pharmaceutical nomenclature metric and apothecary systems of weights and measures, operation of various pharmaceutical apparatus and equipment, compounding techniques, and measurement of ingredients. Knowledge of appropriate resource and reference material and their use. Knowledgeable with the trade and generic names of drugs. Must have the organizational and mathematical ability to prepare intravenous solutions. Ability to work independently in accordance with policies and guidelines. Ability to communicate with patients regarding the proper administration, use, actions, precautions, and storage of their medications.   Position Requirements Minimum Qualifications: High School diploma or General Education Diploma. Certificate as a Pharmacy Technician or one-year prior experience as a pharmacy technician/Aid. Licenses, Certifications, Special Requirements: Certified Pharmacy Technician preferred. Upon recommendation for hire, a criminal background and a National FBI fingerprint check are required to determine suitability for employment, including a 39-month driving record. May require possessing and maintaining a valid driver's license (no DUIs or major traffic citations within the last three years). If required, must meet the Tohono O'odham Nation tribal employer's insurance requirements to receive a driver's permit to operate program vehicles. Based on the department's needs, the incumbent(s) may be required to demonstrate fluency in both the Tohono O'odham language and English as a condition of employment. Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms. The work involves walking with some pushing and pulling of delivery carts. There is considerable lifting (maximum of 25 lbs.) and box opening in maintaining the inventories—the incumbent works in both the inpatient pharmacy and outpatient pharmacy as assigned and works on the wards. This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all-inclusive.     Location Sells   Open Date 8/8/2022   Close Date   About the Organization The Tohono O'odham Nation is a federally-recognized tribe that includes approximately 28,000 members occupying tribal lands in Southwestern Arizona. The Nation is the second largest reservations in Arizona in both population and geographical size, with a land base of 2.8 million acres and 4,460 square miles, approximately the size of the State of Connecticut. Its four non-contiguous segments total more than 2.8 million acres at an elevation of 2,674 feet.   This position is currently not accepting applications. 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