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Pharmacy Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 14 days ago
About the Role
Join the Pharmacy Service at the VA Augusta Health Care System as a GS-7 Pharmacy Technician, providing advanced inpatient and outpatient support. Pharmacy Technician's at this level prepare and dispense medications, perform sterile and non-sterile compounding, maintain inventory and automation systems, support controlled substance activities, and mentor junior technicians while ensuring safe, accurate, and efficient patient care.
What You'll Do
- →Assemble and label outpatient prescriptions for window pickup and mail delivery.
- →Perform bar-code verification on medications to ensure accuracy.
- →Operate and troubleshoot automated dispensing systems and prescription packaging equipment.
- →Compounding (Sterile & Non-Sterile) Compound oral, topical, and other non-sterile medications, ensuring accuracy in measurements, calculations, and documentation.
- →Prepare sterile products-including hazardous, ophthalmic, cardioplegic, and IV admixtures-following USP / and VA standards.
- →Maintain sterile technique, cleanroom quality assurance, and compounding records.
- →Controlled Substances Support Restock automated controlled substance cabinets (e.g., Pyxis) and document all transactions per VA and DEA requirements.
- →Perform inventory counts, proper chain-of-custody handling, and discrepancy resolution.
- →Assist inspectors during accountability reviews.
- →Inpatient Distribution & Inventory Management Prepare unit-dose medications, replenish emergency trays, and support automated unit-dose systems.
- →Conduct monthly ward inspections to ensure proper drug storage and removal of expired items.
- →Manage floor stock inventory, determine stock levels, and fill automated replenishment requests.
- →Maintain repackaging records and ensure labeling accuracy per USP and VA standards.
- →Outpatient Services Provide window dispensing with proper patient verification using VA systems.
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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