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Outpatient Pharmacy Technician - Controlled Substance
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 40 days ago
About the Role
The Controlled Substance Pharmacy Technician is a highly specialized technician, who will perform a variety of complex and highly regulated functions in the management of controlled substances in the outpatient pharmacy. The incumbent is expected to maintain a high degree of accurate productivity and performance while being extremely sensitive to the specific contribution to total patient care.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional FUNCTIONS OR SCOPES OF PRACTICE A.
- →General Responsibilities: Accurately interpret, fills, and readies prescriptions with appropriate medications for pharmacist verification.
- →Documents all controlled substance related transactions as indicated by VA and DEA guidelines.
- →Assures that inventory counts are correct at the time of restocking.
- →Ensures that proper handoff occurs when receiving or delivering controlled substances, always assuring that these medications are never left unsecured.
- →Reports unresolvable discrepancies to immediate area supervisor for resolution.
- →Assist in investigating, witnessing, and resolving discrepancies.
- →Inspects each dosage form dispensed for damage or discoloration and removes damaged or expired products from stock.
- →Provides supervisor with name, manufacturer, lot number, and expiration dates of all damaged or expired controlled substances needing to be adjusted in inventory, including when newly opened, sealed containers contain a greater or lesser quantity than noted on the package, so that balance adjustment can be performed.
- →Assists with securely packaging all damaged, expired, or returned controlled substances awaiting destruction.
- →Complies with all laws, regulations, directives, policies, and procedures applying to the dispensing, storage, transfer, inventory, and accountability of controlled substances.
- →Assists inspectors with the inventory and accountability inspections.
- →Manages inventory of controlled substances and works closely with procurement staff to ensure adequate inventory levels of all controlled substance stock for dispensing and compounding, including adequate on-hand amount of compounded sterile controlled substances.
- →Maintains accurate inventories of all controlled substances, as dispensed, and ensures secure distribution of non-controlled items maintained in the vault.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
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