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Pharmacy Technician, Controlled Substances
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The Pharmacy Controlled Substance Technician is certified, highly specialized technician, under the Associate Chief of Pharmacy Service, and is responsible for the first line management of all controlled substances handled by the pharmacy for the Fredericksburg Health Care Center. This position requires thorough knowledge and understanding of federal, VA, and facility regulations regarding controlled substances and pharmacy processes in general and involves performing complex procedures.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties to include but not limited to: Ability to prepare, fill, and dispense controlled substance according to policies and procedures.
- →Conducts regularly scheduled inventories every 72 hours and daily if needed according to regulations and policies.
- →Assists the Controlled Substance Compliance Inspectors to complete the monthly inspections.
- →Effectively coordinates, manages, completes, and documents the purchasing of all prescription and non-prescription drug products and supplies by maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of the procurement and formulary process.
- →Maintains, verifies, stocks, and replaces outdated CS medications from stock - including wards, outpatient storage cabinets, vaults.
- →Maintains accurate electronic inventory through decrementing prescriptions, entering received inventory, transferring to automated dispensing cabinets, dispensing on green sheets, and transferring to other dispensing vaults.
- →Follows policies and procedures for handling the destruction and return of controlled substance medication.
- →Works with pharmacy procurement personnel by providing information regarding medications and supplies needed from the warehouse or wholesaler based on items used.
- →Assists, reviews, and makes recommendation in inventory control of controlled substances.
- →Monitors, analyzes orders, and usage/distribution patterns for questionable circumstances or unusual trends.
- →Communicates potential problems to the Pharmacy Manager.
- →Provides training for pharmacists, interns, technicians, inspectors, students, and others in controlled substance accountability procedures.
- →Prepares, operates, restocks, and maintains complex automated dispensing cabinets and all necessary equipment supporting pharmaceutical patient care functions.
- →Maintains file of hard copy of hand-written CII-V prescriptions.
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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