Pharmacy Technician Specialist, Diversion

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Job Description

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

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Job Summary

• This role is primarily focused on diversion monitoring and prevention.

The Pharmacy Technician Specialist is responsible for providing pharmacy services, including, but not limited to, dispensing, preparing, compounding, and delivering pharmaceuticals, performing inventory control, compliance audits, financial transactions, providing customer service, and / or maintaining pharmacy records; is responsible for calculation, measurement, and compounding in accordance with USP and other best practice standards; works as part of an interdisciplinary patient care team, and under direction of the Clinical Pharmacist(s), Clinical Pharmacy Specialists, and / or other pharmacist leaders; performs technical pharmacy tasks such as medication history collection or specialized medication handling, compounding, and or processing; performs specialized pharmacy-focused tasks such as optimizing daily operations through automation, technology and information systems management, data analysis, purchasing and inventory management (including controlled substances), 340B compliance and data analysis, regulatory standards compliance, diversion monitoring and prevention, transitional care coordination, and / or investigational drug services; is a role model to other departmental team members and actively participates in the onboarding and training of staff under the direction and guidance of Pharmacy Leadership; may provide oversight to daily operations of the department, assisting with compliance activities, supporting the pharmacy leaders and pharmacists-in-charge; is designed to utilize and extend knowledge and competency while performing technical pharmacy functions of the Inpatient Pharmacy.

Specific responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician Specialist - Diversion will be documented and retained internally by the Department of Pharmacy

Primary Responsibilities

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job responsibilities performed.

Qualifications

Education & Experience - Required

Education & Experience - Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Additional Information

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Compensation

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