Boston Children's Hospital is looking for Part Time Technicians with strong IV experience. The Technician must be abele to work 24 hours a week including every other weekend.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs quality controls checks of medication orders and doses distributed following established procedures and schedules.
• May input patient medication orders on departmental computer system, ensuring that orders are verified by a pharmacist prior to dispensing.
• Provides training to new technicians in job duties, procedures and techniques.
• Monitors and documents trainee performance, identifying areas for improvement and reports to designated pharmacist/lead technician and/or pharmacy technician supervisor.
• Fills and delivers medication orders/prescriptions for hospital inpatients and outpatients. Fills standing inpatient medication orders in individual cassettes following computer-generated lists and fills new orders/prescriptions from physician orders.
• Delivers cassettes and individual medications to units and collects new medication orders according to established procedures and schedules.
• Prepares patient medications in accordance with established protocols, methods, and techniques.
• Measures, mixes, and compounds automated TPNs, irrigations, chemotherapy drugs, and parenteral and oral medications in specified volumes, dosages, and concentrations.
• Prepares special dilutions of non-controlled and controlled substances, IV, and research study medications as needed. Labels and records manufactured medications as required.
• Receives and fills pharmaceutical supply requests for nursing units, satellite locations, and other areas.
• Monitors, restocks, and rotates supplies, including controlled substances, removing and replacing outdated products, and processing related patient charges and credits.
• Restocks emergency code cart trays and prepares and maintains corresponding logs and records.
• Assists nursing staff in completing scheduled controlled substance inventory.
• Performs all automated dispensing functions. Provides training to new technicians in job duties, procedures, and techniques.
• Prepares and maintains related logs and records.
• Maintains neatness and organization of work area.
• Answers, screens, and routes telephone calls as needed.
• Refers any medical/drug information questions or administrative inquiries to the pharmacist.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to operate independently.
• Ability to apply effective techniques and processes resulting in nearly zero errors or defects.
• Extensive knowledge of complex hospital medication use system.
• Ability to recognize and escalate problems.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Proficient knowledge of basic computer skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Non–sterile compounding path.
• Pediatric pharmaceutical calculations.
• Complex Non-sterile compounding AND/OR Sterile compounding path.
• Pediatric pharmaceutical calculations.
• Sterile compounding.
• Patient-specific sterile refill batch fulfillment, patient-specific new sterile order fulfillment.
• At least one of the following: Non-patient specific ICU batch fill, ED Pharmacy Tech, Infusion Clinic, parenteral nutrition or chemotherapy.

Requirements:

• Current registration as a Pharmacy Technician by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy.
• Current certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board or National Healthcare Association.
• Minimum 2 years of Pharmacy Technician experience, including at least 1 year in a hospital setting.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Completion of a Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy approved training program or a minimum of 500 hours worked as a pharmacy technician trainee.

Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $26.05 - $30.05 per hour

Expected hours: 24 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• 403(b)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• Children's hospital

Schedule:

• Rotating weekends

Ability to Relocate:

• Boston, MA: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person