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Pharmacy Technician

Medical Associates

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ID: oGwawfwC

Posted On 05/23/2025

Job Overview

Description

The **Pharmacy Technicia** n assists the licensed pharmacist, clinical staff, and providers in the preparation, compounding, dispensing, and distribution of medications. The technician will ensure accuracy, safety, and compliance with the handling of medications and the environment in which the medications are stored and mixed. The technician will be closely involved in drug and supply inventory control. This role will work under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist and/or clinical provider to ensure maximum safety and quality of care for our patients.

**Schedule:** Part-time or Full-Time hours.

Major Responsibilities** **:

+ Perform sterile compounding, dispensing, and wasting of medications (including hazardous drugs and chemotherapy) within the Pharmacy setting according to regulations. Complete preparation, packaging, labeling, and distribution of medication. This will include reviewing of medication orders and recommendations, measuring, mixing, and preparing drug doses. Dispose of hazardous drug waste according to regulatory guidelines.

+ Collaborate with pharmacist and/or clinical staff to manage drug inventory, supplies, and equipment needs. Involved in managing inventory to ensure adequate stock levels in a fiscally responsible manner. Identify and remove expired or defective medications.

+ Ensure compliance of institutional policies and protocols, as well as regulatory standards such as USP 797/800 and local board of pharmacy requirements

+ Complete all other assigned projects and duties.

Expectations** **:

1. **Continuous Learning and Development** : Remain current with job skills/knowledge, seek personal improvement, willingly cross-train, and share knowledge with others.

2. **Customer Focus** : Anticipate needs, respond timely, ensure satisfaction.

3. **Problem Solving and Decision Making** : Proactively prevent and solve problems, analyze solutions, use sound judgment.

4. **Teamwork and Collaboration** : Work well with others, communicate effectively, support team success through personal productivity.

5. **Responsibility and Reliability** : Accept feedback, take responsibility, manage time effectively, be reliable.

6. **Adaptability and Flexibility** : Display openness to new tasks and updated processes, juggle multiple responsibilities effectively and adapt to change.

7. **Attention to Detail and Quality** : Pay attention to details, deliver quality work.

8. **Professionalism and Respect** : Interact professionally, build rapport, treat everyone with respect.

9. **Commitment to Excellence** : Demonstrate commitment to excellence, strive for quality work.

10. **Policy Compliance and Ethical Behavior** : Comply with Medical Associates policies and behave in an ethical manner at all times.

Knowledge and Skills** **:

Experience From three months to one year of similar or related experience.

Education Equivalent to a two-year college degree or completion of a specialized course of study or certification at business or trade school.

Interpersonal Skills Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are essential elements of the job. Work involves personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, generally regarding routine matters for purposes of giving or obtaining information which may require some discussion.

Physical Aspects:

Stooping - Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Kneeling - Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

Crouching - Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing - Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Walking - Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.

Pushing - Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 pounds force constantly to move objects.

Environmental Conditions: Subject to Physical Hazards - Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP https://www.eeoc.gov/poster

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Job Details

Categories

Health Care

Location

Dubuque, IA

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

1148

Job REQ #

oGwawfwC

\# Positions

1

Start Date

20250523

End Date

20250603

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About the Company

_Our mission is to provide superior healthcare and an excellent patient experience._

Medical Associates Clinic is a well-established multispecialty group practice with over 170 providers and a staff of over 1,000 health care professionals and support personnel. The group was founded in 1924 and is Iowa’s oldest multispecialty group practice. Today, Medical Associates Clinic is the area’s leading health care provider and only multispecialty group practice. Medical Associates Clinic has been recognized since 1998 as a “better performing practice” by the Medical Group Management Association.

In 1982, Medical Associates developed the Tri-State’s first health maintenance organization, Medical Associates Health Plans, which offers comprehensive health benefits to over 400 employers and 45,000 members. Medical Associates Health Plans has maintained an “Excellent” rating, the highest level of accreditation possible by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, for 13 consecutive years.

Medical Associates Clinic offers several locations from which to seek medical care, including facilities at 1500 Associates Drive, 1000 Langworthy, and 4155 Pennsylvania Ave in Dubuque, Iowa; as well as facilities in Bellevue, Cascade, Dyersville, Iowa; Cuba City, and Platteville, Wisconsin; and Elizabeth and Galena, Illinois.