Per Diem Pharmacy Technician - Salem NH
Mass General Brigham Medical Group

About Us

Mass General Brigham Medical Group (MGBMG) represents the merger of separate community medical groups within the Mass General Brigham system into one harmonized and high-performing organization:

Brigham and Women's Harbor Medical Associates
Cooley Dickinson Medical Group
Mass General Brigham Community Physicians
Mass General Brigham Integrated Care
Newton Wellesley Medical Group
North Shore Physicians Group
Pentucket Medical Associates
Wentworth Douglass Health Partners

This work stems from Mass General Brigham's unified system strategy to bring high quality health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. MGBMG provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, behavioral and mental health, specialty care, outpatient surgery, endoscopy, imaging, lab services, infusion, and urgent care both digitally and in person in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

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 < 797>
• 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 < 797>
• 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

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)

How We'll Support You

• Productive and positive team-based environment
• Collaborative approach to delivering high-quality relationship-centered care
• Opportunities for ongoing professional development and growth
• Opportunities to provide feedback and contribute to innovation across MGBMG

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.

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