Pharmacy Technician Position Available In Palm Beach, Florida

Pharmacy Technician Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administrion Thomas H. Corey VA Medical Center Summary Pharmacy technicians this level perform duties such as dispensing prescriptions using automed systems, identifying, and reporting failure of automion, prepacking medicions, mailing prescriptions, delivery of medicions to floors/ pients, filling medicions for the pharmacist to review, checking for expired medicions, answering phones with approprie disposition, preparing sterile products (when applicable) and assisting with basic inventory management. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 06/12/2025 to 06/20/2025 This job will close when we have received 50 applicions which may be sooner than the closing de. Salary $56,451 – $73,383 per year Pay scale & grade

GS 3 – 6

Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: West Palm Beach, FL Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 6 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

CBTC-12747730-25-MAC

Control number 838670200 This job is open to Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Clarificion from the agency This announcement is open to Current Permanent Employees of the Thomas H. Corey VA Medical Center, and VHA Employees only.

NOTE:

This position is excluded from Veterans Preference. Videos Duties The duties of the Pharmacy Technician include, but are not limited to the following: Properly handles medicions by ensuring high alert, hazardous, refrigered, and controlled substance medicions are handled/stored appropriely and legally. Maintains, verifies, stocks, and replaces outdes in assigned areas. Monitors refrigeror temperure daily in assigned areas. Assists with inventory management, maintaining stock levels and ordering of medicions. Prepares medicions th requires special handling and documention. Obtains proper medicion or merial in the proper strength and dosage form; determines proper amount and counts, pours, or measures the medicions; affixes proper label; and records required da on order. Dispenses medicions and supplies after a final check by a pharmacist using proper pient identifiers. Delivers finished prescriptions to correct pient and/or caregiver using proper pient identifiers. Correctly packages prescriptions for mailing. Assists in receiving, checking, and stocking medicions and supplies. Assists other team members in various job-reled duties and responsibilities. Maintains cleanliness and neness of the work area. Identifies and reports failure of automion. Fills prescriptions utilizing the robotics. Packages, compounds, or assembles drugs and supplies th are not stocked in the automed robotics.

This includes when assigned:

prosthetic pharmacy prescriptions, wound care orders, and compounded prescriptions. Responsible for daily metering of and preparion of mail out packages. Compounds and/or reconstitutes oral or external medicions (non-sterile) without a second review. This includes calculing and converting to proper weights and measures the amount of drug or solution to be used. Answers questions from pharmacy and non-pharmacy personnel regarding drug distribution. Identifies basic therapeutic problems such as duplice therapy with drugs in the same class and alerts the pharmacist to the possible need for clinical intervention. Answers telephones and answers pients’ questions. Provides individual training and guidance to lower-level technicians/students in Outpient Pharmacy section. Processes prescription refills in VISTA. Is proficient in the use of the pharmacy package in VISTA and is able to investige common issues (i.e., whether a prescription was mailed or filled for window pickup. Files documents correctly each day for easy retrieval. Performs all duties of lower graded technicians, if required. Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule :

Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm,

Roting Holidays and Weekends Telework :

Not Available Virtual:

This is not a virtual position. Functional Stement # : 82041F, 82042F, 20248F, 41217

F Relocion/Recruitment Incentives :

Not Authorized Permanent Change of Stion (PCS): Not Authorized Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. All applicants tentively selected for VA employment in a testing designed position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. You may be required to serve a probionary period. Subject to background/security investigion. Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver’s licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical examinion. Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). Qualificions Applicants pending the completion of educional or certificion/licensure requirements may be referred and tentively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United Stes. Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens. English Language Proficiency. Pharmacy Technician candides must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed. Grandfhering Provision. Pharmacy technicians employed in VHA on the effective de of this qualificion standard are considered to have met all qualificion requirements for the title, series and grade held, including positive educion and licensure/certificion/registrion th are part of the basic requirements of the occupion. For employees who do not meet all the basic requirements in this standard but who met the qualificions applicable to the position the time they were appointed to it, the following provisions apply: Employees may be reassigned, promoted up to and including the full performance (journey) level or changed to lower grade within the occupion but may not be promoted beyond the journeyman level or placed in supervisory or managerial positions. Employees in an occupion th requires a licensure/certificion/ registrion only higher grade levels must meet the licensure/ certificion/registrion requirement before they can be promoted to those higher grade levels. Employees who are appointed on a temporary basis prior to the effective de of the qualificion standard may not have their temporary appointment extended or be reappointed on a temporary or permanent basis until they fully meet the basic requirements of the standard. Employees who are converted to title 38 hybrid stus under this provision and subsequently leave the occupion lose protected stus and must meet the full VA qualificion standard requirements in effect the time of re-entry to the occupion. Employees initially grandfhered into this occupion who subsequently obtain additional educion and/or licensure/certificion/registrion th meet all the basic requirements of this qualificion standard must maintain the required credentials as a condition of employment in the occupion.

GRADE DETERMINATIONS

Pharmacy Technician, GS-03 Educion and Experience One year of post-secondary educion Or, Six months of general experience Or, Student Technician. A student enrolled in an approved nionally accredited pharmacy technician program for an occupion identified in 38 U.S.C. 7405(a)(1)(A) or (B) may be appointed on a temporary full-time, part-time or intermittent basis under the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 7405(a)(1)(D) for a period not to exceed two years or the durion of the individual’s program. Pharmacy Technician, GS-04. Educion and Experience Completion of two years of post-secondary coursework reled to pharmacy (e.g., 12 semester hours of science and mhemics courses) Or, Completion of one of the following: Six months of experience, th demonstred knowledge of medicion or medical field practice Or Successful completion of a military or nionally recognized pharmacy technician educion/training program. American Society of Health System Pharmacists® (ASHP), American Pharmacist Associion (APHA), Accredition Council for Pharmacy Educion (ACPE), PTCB or NHA are examples of acceptable professional organizions recognizing such training programs.

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Training courses recognized by PTCB and NHA are not actual certificions Or, One year of experience equivalent to next lower grade (GS-3) level Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). I n addition to the educion or experience above, the candide must demonstre the following

KSAs:

Ability to follow policies and procedures. Ability to maintain approprie files. Ability to communice with pients and other health professionals. Ability to follow both written and verbal instructions. Ability to opere office software/equipment to include, computers, software applicions and printers. Pharmacy Technician, GS-05 Educion or Experience Successful completion of four years post-secondary educion with courses reled to pharmacy (e.g., 48 semester hours of science, mhemics, pharmacy) or a bachelor’s degree. Or An associe’s degree in pharmacy technician or technology (48 semester hours of concentred pharmacy technician training) Or, One year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-4) level. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). In addition to the educion or experience above, the candide must demonstre the following

KSAs:

Knowledge of basic pharmacy operions. Knowledge of pharmaceuticals to perform duties in pharmacy functional areas. Knowledge of pharmaceutical nomenclure (including generic, chemical and proprietary names of drug). Ability to fill prescriptions. Ability to use pharmacy informion systems or basic pharmacy dispensing equipment with oversight. Pharmacy Technician, GS-06 Educion or Experience. One year of experience equivalent to the next lower (GS-5) level. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). In addition, the candide must demonstre the following

KSAs:

Knowledge of Federal and ste laws reled to pharmacy practice. Knowledge of preparion, storage and distribution of medicion products including those requiring special handling and documention. Ability to use pharmacy informion systems or opere pharmacy dispensing equipment. Knowledge of basic inventory procedures. Ability to communice with pients and staff and direct questions to approprie personnel.

Preferred Experience:

Experience working in a complex health care facility. Experience working in a fast-paced outpient pharmacy setting.

Physical Requirements:

Heavy lifting (45 pounds and over), Modere lifting (15-44 pounds), Light lifting (under 15 pounds), Heavy carrying (45 pounds and over), Modere carrying (15-44 pounds), Light carrying (under 15 pounds), Straight pulling (2 hours), Pushing, Reaching above shoulder, Use of fingers, Both hands required, Walking (up to 4 hours), Standing (prolonged), Repeed bending, Climbing, use of legs and arms (infrequent), Operion of motor vehicle, Near vision correctable 13″ to 16″ to Jaeger 1 to 4, Far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other, Specific visual requirement (Ability to read fine print on labels), Depth perception, Ability to distinguish basic colors, Hearing (aid permitted), Clear Speech, Emotional Stability, Good Dexterity The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-6 . The actual grade which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is

GS-3 – GS-6

.

Reference:

For more informion on this qualificion standard, please https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificionStandards/. Educion

IMPORTANT

A transcript must be submitted with your applicion if you are basing all or part of your qualificions on educion.

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Only educion or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your educion here: . If you are using foreign educion to meet qualificion requirements, you must send a Certifice of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for th educion. For further informion, : . Additional informion During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions. This is a Bargaining Unit Position. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive stus. VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-reled positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority. If you are unable to apply online or need an alterne method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement. Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant’s criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, . Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Your applicion, resume, C.V., and/or supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect considerion for employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify informion provided by a candide (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candide’s abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position. It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those th have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members :

Please the site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members. Area of Considerion – Eligible applicions reviewed and referred in the following order: Current permanent VA employees of the Facility. All other VA employees. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have – whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: Resume The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please ensure you have included all documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50’s (current/former Federal employees), etc. Active Nional Certificion as a Certified Pharmacy Technician through PTCB or, NHA Other (2) Professional Certificion Resume Separion Notice (RIF) SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/20/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click . To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your

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resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.

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It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de. Agency contact informion Manuel Colon Phone Address West Palm Beach VA Medical Center 7305 North Military Trail West Palm Beach, FL 33410 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the .

NOTE:

Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: Resume The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please ensure you have included all documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50’s (current/former Federal employees), etc. Active Nional Certificion as a Certified Pharmacy Technician through PTCB or, NHA Other (2) Professional Certificion Resume Separion Notice (RIF) SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/20/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click . To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your

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resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.

NOTE:

It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de. Agency contact informion Manuel Colon Phone Address West Palm Beach VA Medical Center 7305 North Military Trail West Palm Beach, FL 33410 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the .

NOTE:

Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 06/12/2025 to 06/20/2025 This job will close when we have received 50 applicions which may be sooner than the closing de. Salary $56,451 – $73,383 per year Pay scale & grade

GS 3 – 6

Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: West Palm Beach, FL Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 6 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

CBTC-12747730-25-MAC

Control number 838670200 ., .