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Description
The Pharmacy Tech, Certified-PHARMACY reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization's Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.
Under direct supervision of a Registered Pharmacist, assists in the various activities of the Pharmacy Services Department not requiring the professional judgment of the pharmacist. Such duties include but need not be limited to: Maintaining patient records, Setting up, packaging, and labeling medication doses, Filling and dispensing routine orders for stock supplies of patient-care areas, and maintaining inventories of drug supplies. Certified Pharmacy Technicians function in strict accordance with standard written procedures and guidelines, any deviation from which must be approved by the supervising pharmacist.
This position is part-time, 40 hours per pay period, evening shift with alternating weekends and holidays.
Qualifications
High school graduate and must be registered with the State of Illinois as a Pharmacy Technician; currently certified with the Pharmacy Certification Board (PTCB). Some college preferred (medical terminology and/or pharmacology). Computer knowledge required, with typing 20-30 wpm. Mathematical aptitude necessary. Hospital experience preferred. Finger and hand dexterity necessary to handle many small articles, needle, syringes, unit dose equipment and to perform data processing.
Equal Opportunity
Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.
Certified Pharmacy Technician PH Pharmacy Part-time Evenings
While each of our 11 hospitals and more than 200 locations has a unique story, Northwestern Medicine is unified under one vision: to put patients first in everything that we do. Anchored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago, Northwestern Medicine brings academic medicine into the heart of local communities across the suburbs and beyond, close to where our patients live and work.
Northwestern Medicine is dedicated to providing the most advanced health care to the communities and patients we serve. The Northwestern Medicine clinical and administrative staff, medical and science faculty, and medical students come together every day with a shared commitment to superior quality, academic excellence, scientific discovery and patient safety.
Northwestern Medicine has:
- More than 33,000 employees dedicated to exceptional service and care
- More than 4,400 aligned physicians, including faculty, residents and scientists, offering treatment informed by the latest research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- 6 hospitals honored by the Magnet® Recognition Program for meeting the highest standards for patient care and nursing excellence
- Hundreds of locations throughout the Chicagoland area
CULTURE
Our Mission, Vision and Core Values
Whether directly providing patient care or supporting those who do, every Northwestern Medicine employee has an impact on the quality of the patient experience and the level of excellence we collectively achieve. This knowledge, expressed in our shared commitment to a single, patient-focused mission, unites us.
Mission
Northwestern Medicine is a premier integrated academic health system where the patient comes first.
- We are all caregivers or someone who supports a caregiver.
- We are here to improve the health of our community.
- We have an essential relationship with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
- We integrate education and research to continually improve excellence in clinical practice.
- We serve a broad community and strive to bring the best in medicine closer to where patients live and work.
Vision
To be a premier integrated academic health system that will serve a broad community and bring the best in medicine—including breakthrough treatments and clinical trials enhanced through our affiliation with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine—to a growing number of patients close to where they live and work.
Values
Patients first: Putting our patients first in all that we do
Integrity: Adhering to an uncompromising code of ethics that emphasizes complete honesty and sincerity
Teamwork: Team success over personal success
Excellence: Continuously striving to be better
- “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” (2022): Top score and designated as “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the Disability Equality Index
- “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” (2021): Top score and designated as “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the Disability Equality Index
