Pharmacy Tech Cert

As our Certified Pharmacy Tech (CPhT), you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.

Every day, you'll build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times. Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.

To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times. You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.

• Sterile Compounding: Prepare complex intravenous admixtures, chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, and other parenteral medications using strict aseptic techniques in ISO-classified cleanrooms and biological safety cabinets.
• Order Processing & Labeling: Review physician medication orders (under pharmacist supervision), perform pharmaceutical calculations, and accurately label finished products with patient and drug data.
• Cleanroom Safety & Maintenance: Follow proper personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing procedures; complete routine cleaning and environmental monitoring of the cleanroom and hazardous drug (HD) rooms.
• Inventory Management: Monitor stock levels, track expiration dates, rotate pharmaceuticals, and stock automated dispensing cabinets or cold-storage units.
• Compliance & Documentation: Maintain accurate manufacturing records, batch logs, waste disposal logs, and quality assurance logs in accordance with state and federal laws (HIPAA, FDA, state board regulations).
• Collaboration: Communicate professionally with clinical pharmacists, infusion nurses, and healthcare providers regarding drug availability, dosages, or delivery timelines.

This position is housed in San Luis Obispo

Required

• Pharmacy Tech Certification - CPht
• Registered Pharmacy Tech - California
• Ability to read and communicate accurately and legibly.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Able to follow both oral and written directions.
• Ability to be precise in filling medication orders and maintaining records.
• Ability to work tactfully and effectively with team members, the patient, family, and the public.
• Computer literacy.

Preferred

• Minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience as a pharmacy technician, with prior hospital, home infusion, or oncology/sterile compounding experience strongly preferred  

This position is housed in San Luis Obispo

Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.

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