Full-time, Day/Night Shift, (3) 12-hour shifts per week 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM, rotating weekends and holidays.

AFSCME - Union

Posted: May 9th, 2025

Purpose:

Responsible for properly storing and distributing drugs; receives and accounts for drugs from all vendors. Delivers drugs to patient care and other areas; picks up drug returns and applicable paperwork; and puts all returned unit-dose products back to proper receipts. Responsible for filling patient drug boxes, floor stock orders, and automated dispensing cabinets. Assists Pharmacists as directed. Maintains daily report.

Responsibilities:

• Accurately fills floor stock request.
• Prepare correct labeling for bulk drugs.
• Perform basic pharmaceutical calculations.
• Basic understanding of the concept of physical stability and chemical stability as it relates to parenteral pharmaceuticals.
• Correctly interpret physician orders and can distinguish between pharmaceutical orders, laboratory tests, radiology, nursing, and other orders.
• Perform monthly medication storage area inspections.
• Selects drugs from stock in proper dose, dosage form, and quantity as ordered by the physician under the direct supervision of a pharmacist.
• Understands microbial contamination and exhibits Aseptic Technique while preparing sterile pharmaceutical products.
• Repackages drugs into a unit-of-use container.
• Education and Formal Training Required: High School Diploma or GED required.
• Previous pharmacy experience preferred.
• Must be familiar with a typewriter keyboard and demonstrate the ability by producing a neat, accurate, and legible copy.
• The individual must have the ability to adapt to the computerized Pharmacy Information Systems utilized.
• The individual must demonstrate initiative and good judgment.
  
  

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Act 34
  
  

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran