Job Details
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America's oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 500,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown. We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source. Bellevue's clinical centers of excellence include: Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Comprehensive Children's Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.
At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.
Job Description
- Validates patient identity and screens prescriptions for completeness, formulary/restriction and payment status, prior to processing.
- Retrieves written or electronically transmitted prescriptions, types prescription.
- Accurately keys and retrieves prescription data from computer generated file for review by pharmacist.
- Retrieves electronic patient records and locates prescriptions.
- Prepare prescriptions for verification by a Pharmacist.
- Counting dosage units of drugs
- Placing dosage units of drugs in appropriate containers.
- Affixing the prescription label to the containers.
- Handles or delivers completed prescriptions to patient or person authorized to act on behalf of the patient and, in accordance with regulations, and advices of availability of counselling to be conducted by licensed pharmacist or intern.
- Obtain data for determining prescription cost.
- Restocks automated dispensing cabinets after verification by a pharmacist - must complete restocking log per policy,
- Prepares manual records of dispensing for the signature or initials of the pharmacist.
- Calculates insurance coverage of pharmacy transaction.
- Assists the Pharmacist, as directed, in compounding ("compounding" means the combining, admixing, mixing, diluting, pooling, reconstituting, or otherwise altering of a drug or bulk drug substance to create a drug), preparing, labeling or dispensing of compounding drugs used to fill valid prescription or medication order for a patient.
- Performs pharmacy-related clerical duties.
- Attends and/or participates in staff departmental and interdisciplinary meetings, training and quality assurance/performance improvement (QA/PI) activities, as required.
- Performs other functions, as directed by the pharmacist.
Minimum QualificationsEffective April 25, 2021, all new hires into the title of Pharmacy Technician must be licensed to practice as a
Registered Pharmacy Technician by the NYSED.
NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
- Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
- Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
- Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
- College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
- Multiple employee discounts programs