Pharmacy Technician I

Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital, a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky. 

Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. 

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

As our Pharmacy Tech, you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.

Every day, you'll build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times. Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.

To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times. You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.

• Assists pharmacist in providing pharmaceutical care to include (but not limited to):
  
  
  
  
  • Preparing, filling and distributing medication
  
  
  
  • Screening phone calls/orders and alerting the pharmacist to patient-specific data
• Prepares labels with medication name, strength, lot number and expiration date.
• Performs monthly patient care area inspections and reports as assigned by the manager.
• Completes charges/credits daily for billing.
• Maintains the various work areas of the department and equipment/utensils in a neat, clean, and orderly appearance.
• Restocks special care stock supplies (i.e. emergency drugs to crash carts and heart carts) under pharmacist supervision.

Required

• High school/GED, upon hire and
• Pharmacy Technician: KY, upon hire or
• Pharmacist Intern: KY, upon hire

Preferred

• Previous Pharmacy Technician experience