UPMC Presbyterian is hiring a Pharmacy Technician to join their IDS team!
Why UPMC Presbyterian?
Career Growth: We offer opportunities for career advancement, continuous training, and ongoing education.
Collaborative Environment: Join a supportive, team-focused environment.
Innovative Excellence: Join a top academic medical center dedicated to healthcare innovation, research, and education.
Impactful Work: Help ensure patients receive timely and safe medications, aiding their health and recovery.
Take the next step in your pharmacy career with UPMC. Apply now and join a team that values your development and success!
Sign-on bonus details:
$5,000 with a 2-year commitment to UPMC
Responsibilities:
- Assist with receipt, storage, inventory management, and accountability of investigational medications.
- Maintain accurate study drug records in accordance with sponsor requirements, institutional policies, FDA regulations, and USP standards..
- Support study medication dispensing workflows under pharmacist supervision.
- Perform investigational drug inventory counts, reconciliations, returns, and destruction documentation as required.
- Prepare study materials, maintain protocol binders, and assist with study start-up and maintenance activities.
- Coordinate with pharmacists, study coordinators, research teams, sponsors, and other healthcare personnel regarding study drug-related activities.
- Support sterile and non-sterile investigational product preparation as assigned and appropriately trained.
- Assist with shipping, receiving, temperature monitoring, storage documentation, and chain-of-custody requirements for investigational products.
- Participate in internal audits, sponsor audits, monitoring visits, and regulatory inspections.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of research subjects and study information.
- Contribute to continuous process improvement, quality initiatives, and regulatory compliance activities within the IDS program.
- Completion of high school diploma or equivalent required AND one of the following:
- Completion of an accredited pharmacy technician program
- Six months of previous pharmacy technician experience
- Six months experience as a Pharmacy Assistant within the UPMC Health System
- Enrollment in an undergraduate pharmacy program and in good standing
Preferences:
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) preferred.
- Previous experience supporting clinical research studies or investigational drug services preferred.
- Knowledge of FDA regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), USP <795>, USP <797>, and USP <800> standards preferred.
- Demonstrated organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Strong communication and customer service skills.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- PA State Board of Pharmacy Registration required for all PA locations
- Non-licensed Pharmacy Technicians working in a NY facility are not permitted to perform Sterile Compounding.
- All Pharmacy Technicians working in NY facilities performing sterile compounding are required to have received certification from a nationally accredited pharmacy technician certification program (CPhT) and be registered with the New York State Board of Pharmacy.
- If an individual has a Pharmacy Intern license, they do not need to register with the State of PA
- RxPartners specific BU criteria may also include Driver’s License and Automotive insurance Registration is dependent on the state they work in
- NY Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPhT) OR PA Pharmacy Tech Registration
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran