Job Description:

The Lead Pharmacy Technician provides frontline technical leadership within pharmacy operations, ensuring accurate, safe, and efficient medication distribution in accordance with state and federal law, USP compounding standards, and hospital policy. This is a general job description covering three core functional areas of departmental technician leadership: automated dispensing cabinet (Pyxis) replenishment, controlled substances workflows, and sterile compounding. Each Lead Pharmacy Technician is assigned lead responsibility for a primary focus areas based on departmental need, competency, and certification, while maintaining working proficiency across general pharmacy technician duties. The Lead Technician supports quality and compliance within their focus area and escalates clinical or regulatory issues to the pharmacist-in-charge or Pharmacy Technician Supervisor.

Education:

High School Graduate or Equivalent

• Required Completion of Pharmacy Technician Program

• Preferred Experience:

  Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a pharmacy technician in a hospital or health-system setting
• Required Demonstrated experience or working proficiency in the specific focus areas to which the Lead Technician is assigned (Pyxis/ADC replenishment, controlled substances handling, or sterile compounding) preferred; equivalent experience considered
• Required Prior informal lead, trainer, or preceptor experience
• Preferred Prior experience supporting Board of Pharmacy, DEA, or Joint Commission inspections
• Preferred Experience with automation/technology optimization projects (ADC par-level analytics, IV robotics, diversion-monitoring software)

• Preferred Certifications/Licensures:

  Current registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the California State Board of Pharmacy
• Required National certification as a Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) through PTCB or ExCPT
• Required For Sterile Compounding focus area: current sterile compounding certification/competency (e.g., aseptic technique, gowning, media-fill, and gloved fingertip testing) per USP and hospital policy, as indicated.
• Required For Controlled Substances focus area: ability to meet hospital and DEA requirements for controlled substance handling, including background check clearance
• Required Advanced pharmacy technician certification relevant to focus area (e.g., CSPT for sterile compounding
• Required within 9 months of hire

Knowledge/Skills:

Working knowledge of California pharmacy law, DEA regulations, and USP standards relevant to the assigned focus area. Strong attention to detail and accuracy in a high-volume, high-risk clinical environment. Ability to train, guide, and provide constructive feedback to peer-level technician staff. Effective verbal and written communication skills; ability to collaborate with pharmacists, nursing, and interdisciplinary staff. Proficiency with pharmacy information systems and automation technology relevant to the focus area (e.g., ADC software, IV workflow systems, inventory management systems). Ability to identify and appropriately escalate compliance, safety, or workflow concerns.

Work Shift:

08.0

• 08:00
• 16:30 No Waive (United States of America)

Pay Range:

$39.95

• $53.

93 Hourly Offer amounts are based on demonstrated/relevant experience and/or licensure. Pay will be adjusted to the local market if hired outside of the Bay Area.

Note:

Positions at JMH which are exempt (not eligible for overtime) under the level of Manager are listed as hourly for compensation purposes on this posting. The work shift will contain the word 'exempt' on it.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40 John Muir Health is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health care organization east of San Francisco serving patients in Contra Costa, Alameda and southern Solano Counties. It includes a network of more than 1,000 primary care and specialty physicians and 6,300 employees, The health system's facilities include John Muir Health, Walnut Creek Medical Center (554-bed acute care facility), which serves as Contra Costa County's only designated trauma center, and John Muir Health, Concord Medical Center (247-bed acute care facility). Together, they are recognized as top centers for neurosciences, orthopedic, cancer, cardiovascular, trauma, emergency, pediatric, and high-risk obstetrics care. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, robotic surgery, weight-loss surgery, rehabilitation and critical care. In February 2024, John Muir Health opened the Behring Pavilion, which is home to the UCSF-John Muir Health Jean and Ken Hofmann Cancer Center in Walnut Creek. This state-of-the-art facility brings cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care coordination into one location. Patients benefit from the expertise of top cancer specialists from John Muir Health and UCSF Health and have access to the latest treatment advances close to home. John Muir Health also offers complete inpatient and outpatient behavioral health programs and services at our 73-bed fully accredited psychiatric hospital and outpatient center located in Concord. In addition, John Muir Health provides a number of primary care and outpatient services at 89 practice sites throughout the community and urgent care centers in Berkeley, Brentwood, Concord, San Ramon and Walnut Creek. John Muir Health offers a collaborative, patient-centered health care environment with an emphasis on listening, explaining, and working together as a team, to help patients achieve their optimal health. We recognize those who exemplify excellence and reward them for contributing to our collective success. From individual to department to spontaneous recognition, Employee of the Month, Employee Suggestion Program rewards, Employee Success Sharing Program, and many more, we find unique ways to thank our employees for the outstanding efforts they make every day. Competitive salary and benefit package available. At John Muir Health, we strive to be a leading health system through the cultivation of a culture of belonging where every patient, employee, provider, and community member feels safe and valued for embracing all aspects of their differences. As an Equal Opportunity employer, we encourage and consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please visit the EEO website here. All hospitals are accredited by The Joint Commission, a national surveyor of quality patient care. John Muir Health is an equal opportunity employer.