Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician:

Position Summary:

Works under the direct supervision of a Registered Pharmacist. Utilizes established policies and procedures to maintain and distribute floor stock and unit dose medications and pharmaceuticals to patient care units, special services and other areas throughout the medical center complex. Position also participates in the filling and stocking of automated dispensing devices. Under direct supervision, manufactures the products dispensed by the Sterile Products division of the Pharmacy, such as large and small volume parenterals, chemotherapeutic preparations, total parenteral nutrition solutions, etc.

Required Knowledge & Skills: Interpersonal skills sufficient to communicate with other health care personnel. Familiarity with medical/ drug terminology, abbreviations, routes of administration, pharmacy security and product selection.

Education: Must be a high school graduate or the equivalent, or currently enrolled in a program which awards such degree, or a registered Pharmacy Intern.

Experience: Must have successfully completed a board approved training program, or successfully completed a minimum of 500 hours of employment as a pharmacy technician.

Certification/Licensure: Must be licensed with the Board of Pharmacy as a registered pharmacy technician or must be a registered Pharmacy Intern.

Software/Hardware: Pyxis, Meditech

Founded by the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation in 1906, Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts, is a full-service, acute care Catholic hospital with 211 beds and satellites in Fall River, Attleboro, Swansea, and Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The hospital provides nationally recognized patient- and family-centered inpatient and outpatient clinical services to patients from surrounding Massachusetts and Rhode Island communities.

In addition to comprehensive diagnostic, medical, surgical, and emergency services, specialty services include our Joint Commission-certified Center for Orthopedic Excellence; Saint Anne’s Hospital Regional Cancer Center in Fall River and Dartmouth; the Center for Pain Management; multi-disciplinary Spine Center; and inpatient geriatric psychiatry services. Saint Anne's is one of just 15 U.S. hospitals to earn Straight A's for hospital safety since the program's inception - 2012-2023.