ESC’s premier healthcare client is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join their organization working onsite in Park Ridge, IL . The role works M-F 8am-4:30pm and starts as a contract opportunity affording long-term potential for a top performer.

This role performs a variety of clerical, distributive, technical, and data gathering duties in order to provide medications to patients and support the pharmacists.

Major Responsibilities:

• Develops competence in dispensing and delivery of medications. This includes developing competence in the department's use of information systems, technology, and automation used for dispensing and storage of medications.
• Develops competence in preparing non-sterile products following USP, state, and federal recommendations, as required.
• Develops competence in entering medication orders in the computer system and/or processing medication requests via the computer system.
• Develops competence in managing phone calls from customers and team members such as nurses, physicians, or patients. This includes accurately understanding and interpreting the issue, timely resolution, or timely hand-off to another team member as appropriate.
• Develops competence in pharmacy procedures and documentation as required, satisfying legal, regulatory, and department requirements of pharmacy practice.
• Complies with legal, regulatory, accreditation standards. This includes (but is not limited to) controlled substance procedures, USP procedures and DNV requirements.

Qualifications:

• At least 1 year of IV (compounding) experience within a hospital
• Must have sterile compounding experience (hazardous and non-hazardous)
• Active IL Pharmacy Tech license
• EPIC charting experience preferred
• High School Diploma.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to walk, lift, squat, bend, twist, crawl, kneel, climb, and reach above shoulders throughout the workday.
• Ability to lift up to 35 pounds from floor to chest level, lift and carry up to 35 pounds at waist height a reasonable distance, push/pull with 30 pounds of force.