Pharmacy Technician, Correctional Health Services; Float

CHS - Astoria, NY 11105

Salary Range: $63,901.50 - $63,901.50 per year

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Job Shift: 1

Category: Allied Health

Physician Affiliate Group of New York, P.C. (PAGNY) for The Division of Correctional Health Services (CHS) of New York City Health + Hospitals (H+H) is responsible for the delivery of medical care, mental health care, and discharge planning in the jail system. Approximately 25% of new admissions per year to the NYC jail system will receive care on the mental health service.

This service strives to provide safe, holistic and evidence-based therapeutic interventions for the diverse range of mental health issues that face the population, from serious mental illness to the natural struggles that accompany incarceration. The service provides some of the most comprehensive and unique treatment modalities in the country, including specialty housing units for individuals with serious mental illness, a 24-hour on-call psychiatric service, robust creative arts programming, a strong DBT training program, clinics in each of the facilities, substance use treatment, integrated re-entry services, and relationships with multiple training institutions throughout the city.

The Pharmacy Technician performs all technical tasks in the unit dose, carry and out-patient drug distribution systems as well as other related duties of a satellite pharmacy. The Registered Pharmacist approves all work performed by the Pharmacy Technician.

• Organizational Responsibilities:
  • Unit Dose and Carry Drug Distribution Systems
    • Picks up patient medication orders from clinic, mini-clinic areas, etc. on a routine basis. Scans medication orders to other buildings or central pharmacy.
    • Assists in maintaining accurate patient profiles by informing the pharmacist of changes in patient names, I.D. number or housing so modifications can be made in the pharmacy database.
    • Fills and labels patient cassettes with non-carry and carry system medication bags from computer generated fill lists, and/or original drug orders.
    • Fills and labels patient discharge medications from a prescription order.
    • Fills and labels DOT medications. Once checked by pharmacist, delivers same to nursing.
    • Obtains court medication list from General Office. Reviews distribution list to see if patient will be getting medication in morning. Reviews what is in Pyxis. If medication is not in Pyxis, provides dose for morning court medications. If medication is not in Pyxis, technician can have it added to Pyxis.
    • Assists the pharmacist by entering number of patients receiving methadone keep and detox into the statistics in the RX Daily Stats Activity Report form in the computer.
    • Reviews methadone distribution books, circles date of missing methadone dose and enters that information into methadone missed doses database on a daily basis. Notifies pharmacist of same.
    • When outside methadone clinics call to verify last dose and date of methadone, technician will review active and inactive methadone administration records to ascertain the patient’s last dose and date of methadone administration.
    • If there are requests for a patient profile, the individual should be instructed to get the profile themselves from report manager. Requests from other agencies should be referred to the pharmacist on duty.
    • Prints and reviews all transfer reports, checks if the patients is on medication, prints patient medication profile and fills needed doses of medication for subsequent checking by pharmacist. If patient is on methadone or DOT medications, tells pharmacist of such. Can contact other building pharmacy to obtain needed DOT MAR or methadone distribution sheet.
    • Transports patient cassettes to medication clinic areas and exchanges same when necessary.
    • Files completed fill lists, updates lists, distribution lists, methadone sheets and other materials according to procedure.
    • Checks, rotates and restocks all drug stock areas. Fills Pyxis machines as required. Files Pyxis reports with non pyxis stock records and retains them for 1 week. On a monthly basis checks for outdated medications in Pyxis, clinic floor stock, pharmacy stock and other areas…