Pharmacy Tech

Join our team as a variable shift, PRN, Pharmacy Tech in Athens, TX

Why Join Us?

Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better

• Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
• People-First: We prioritize your well-being with a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
• Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.

Get to Know Your Team:

• UT Health Athens is a 127-bed facility, including a 24-hour ED, designated as a Level IV trauma center and Level IV stroke center; advanced diagnostic technology; 10-bed ICU; maternity unit radiation therapy center; and a stand-alone ED in Gun Barrel City.

• Under the supervision of a pharmacist, assist with the technical, and non-clinical aspects of preparing medications for dispensing and assist in pharmacy operations.
• Assist in compounding non-sterile medications by USP 795 and other regulatory agencies and organizational policies.
• Restock the pharmacy with inventory from orders and medications received from returns from the floor or automated dispensing machines.
• Ensure all expired, damaged, or compromised medication in the pharmacy, automated machines, and floor stock are removed and segregated from active inventory.
• Maintain documentation of activities by following policy, and neatly file appropriate documentation records.
• Assist in training newly hired pharmacy techs.
• Monitor and review daily batch reports, such as restock reports, stock out reports, all station events, discrepancies, overrides, and ordered medications not loaded.
• Prepare sterile intravenous admixtures aseptically and by USP 797/800, State Board of Pharmacy Regulations, and organizational policies.
• Maintain the pharmacy in an organized manner.

Job Requirements:

• High School graduate or GED.
• 2+ years of previous hospital pharmacy technician experience (inclusive of training programs).
• Completion of sterile compounding training/competency (as required by State BOP).
• Active Registered Pharmacy Technician in good standing with the Board of Pharmacy.
• National Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT).
• Current Basic Life Support certification