Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Reviews prescriptions issued by Physician, or other authorized prescriber to assure accuracy and determine formulas and ingredients needed.
• Directs pharmacy workers engaged in mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Answers questions and provides information to pharmacy customers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage or pharmaceuticals.
• Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
• Enter data such as patient name, prescribed medication and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge system, and inventory.
• Assays medications to determine identity, purity, and strength. Instructs interns and other medical personnel on matters pertaining to pharmacy.

Requirements:

• 4-7 years of experience.
• Candidate may have to push 1 cart.
• Prefer at least one year history and prefer it to be with a retail organization i.e. Walgreens/CVS.
• They will be working in a distribution area.
• Note that hours could be anytime between 6am and 10pm (usually 8-hour shift).
• Compounds medications, using standard formulas and processes such as weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients.
• Directs pharmacy workers engaged in mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Must be licensed.
• Experience in retail/mail order/specialty preferred but not required.
• Shift: Mon-Friday 8-hour shift:
• Any 8hr shift between 7 am to 7:30 pm, it will rotate every 2 weeks
• Shifts will be increments of 8.5 hrs. with 30min lunch and can vary from 7am to 7:30pm i.e., 7-3:30, 9-5:30, 11-7:30 Overtime is not required, however we do offer upon business needs.
• 8-4:30 training schedule (Rotating schedule every 1 week).

Top Skills:

• Must be Licensed in IL.
• Retail Pharmacy experience (i.e. CVS, Walgreens, Target etc.).
• Multi-tasking.
• Great Communication Skills.
• Self-motivating.
• Candidates MUST be comfortable being on their feet all day. No heavy lifting, however, they will be pushing carts that may be heavy - no more than 30lbs.

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