This position will assist in the management of the daily pharmacy technician requirements of the Pharmacy Department. They will assist with and provide leadership and training with pharmacy automation and controlled substance inventory issues including, but not limited to: ordering, receiving, transferring, automated dispensing cabinet management, sterile compounding, and controlled substances management. This employee will assist pharmacists and the pharmacy department team with providing medication services and pharmaceutical care to patients and other departments through-out the health system.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education: High School Diploma or GED
Experience: Six years of related experience. Requires advanced knowledge in highly specialized systems and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
GEORGIA REGISTERED PHARMACY TECH
CERTIFIED PHARMACY TECHNICIAN
Supervision
Regularly uses the assistance and supervises level I, II, III, and IV technicians to monitor performance, ensure accurate completion of assigned tasks, and provide correction when necessary. Must work closely with peers and supervisors as an efficient team member to promote optimal patient outcomes.
Must meet all the requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Technician Clinical Ladder policy and procedure.
Must exhibit leadership skills of being a good listener, being a good communicator, have the ability to make sound decisions, and being a good problem solver.
Adapts positively to changes in workload and or work schedule.
Experience or training in materials inventory management is preferred.
Ability to work well in high volume, high stress situations.
Ability to pass a basic written and practical competency examination. Must have a solid, working knowledge of medications: brand and generic names, dosage forms, common dosages, and common uses.
Ability to interact and work well as part of a team oriented environment.
Desire to learn and excel in leadership opportunities offered through the Tanner Leadership Development program.
Tanner Hospital Villa Rica-V0001
8a-4p, shifts will fluctuate depending on training other shifts and oversight, back up to on-call list
Tanner Health is a non-profit regional healthcare provider serving west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner facilities include the 201-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, the 40-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, the 25-bed critical access Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, the 15-bed Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama in Wedowee and the 92-bed behavioral health facility Willowbrooke at Tanner.
Other Tanner services include Tanner Cancer Care, Tanner Heart Care, Tanner Urgent Care, Tanner Women’s Care, Tanner Occupational Health, Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders, Tanner Advanced Wound Center, Tanner Pain Management Center, Tanner Diagnostic Imaging, Tanner Home Health, Tanner Hospice Care and more.
Tanner also operates Tanner Medical Group, one of metro Atlanta’s largest multi-specialty physician groups, consisting of 30 physician practices with specialties in cardiology and interventional cardiology, family medicine, general surgery and breast surgical oncology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology and vascular surgery.
Tanner employs more than 4,500 people and offers a medical staff of more than 300 physicians representing 34 unique medical specialties practicing throughout west Georgia and east Alabama.
