Pharmacy Technician Outpatient Cancer Center

Job Description:

Job Specifics:

Schedule: Monday through Thursday; four 8‑hour shifts per week, with possible holiday rotation and no weekends

Shift Details: 8:00 - 4:30 pm

Location: Platte Valley Hospital, Brighton, Colorado

Benefits Eligible: Yes - Link to Benefit Details

Top candidates will have experience with sterile compounding of chemotherapy and other hazardous medications in an oncology or infusion setting.

Join the Cancer Center Pharmacy team at Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital and play a vital role in supporting patients throughout their cancer treatment journey. As a Pharmacy Technician, you'll provide specialized support for our growing Cancer and Infusion Center, helping ensure patients receive specialized therapies and medications accurately, safely, and with compassion.

In this role, you'll focus on sterile compounding and medication preparation for oncology and infusion therapies, working alongside a dedicated team committed to exceptional patient care. Every medication you prepare contributes directly to a patient's treatment experience, providing comfort, confidence, and care throughout their journey.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy collaborating with dependable teammates, and are passionate about making a meaningful difference in patients' lives, you'll find purpose and belonging on our team. Together, we're helping people live the healthiest lives possible—one patient at a time.

At Platte Valley Hospital, every interaction is an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. When you walk through Platte Valley Hospital’s front door, you realize something is different. Classical music delights your ears, bright smiles warm your heart, fruited spa water quenches your thirst, and excellent care heals your hurts. Patients are guests and guests become family. Everyone is welcome and everyone is served.

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Job Function

The Pharmacy Technician demonstrates consistent application of knowledge and skills in assisting the pharmacist in execution of appropriate, safe, efficacious, efficient, and cost-effective pharmaceutical care. The position participates in many procedural aspects of pharmacy practice under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist or technician supervisor and is an integral part of the pharmacy team. This position supports Pharmacy Services in all locations (i.e., acute, community, ambulatory, specialty).

Specialized Responsibilities in the Cancer Center

• Sterile compounding of hazardous and non-hazardous medications, including chemotherapy treatments, to support patients throughout their cancer care journey.

• Maintain a safe, compliant cleanroom environment through routine cleaning, monitoring, and quality assurance activities.

• Coordinate medication inventory, preparation, and delivery to the Cancer and Infusion Center to ensure timely access to specialized therapies and exceptional patient care.

Essential Functions

• Assists with all phases of pharmacy services while under the supervision of a pharmacist as required by state of practice and job duties.

• Answers phones and provides excellent customer service as appropriate to practice site.

• Assists the pharmacist in collecting clinical and other patient information and maintaining appropriate records as required by regulation and policy.

• Utilizes pharmacy technology effectively to prepare medication orders for dispensing, performs calculations as necessary, and compounds medications for accurate compounding as appropriate to practice site, in accordance with state law, policies, procedures, and protocols.

• Attains appropriate supervision and accuracy checks by the pharmacist(s) and clearly understands when a pharmacist must verify tasks and activities.

• Accurately fills and maintains medication supplies including verifying and monitoring controlled substance inventories to ensure security, accuracy, cost effectiveness, and 340B/Charging management as required to practice site.

• Packages and labels medications accurately and appropriately to minimize waste as appropriate to practice site and job duties.

• Ensures pharmacy cleanliness and orderliness as appropriate to practice site.

• Communicates with caregivers regarding responsibilities, identified concerns, and participates in quality and patient safety initiatives, identifying potential safety hazards that may create problems for patients and/or staff and takes appropriate actions to escalate items to the pharmacist for review as appropriate based on urgency, regulations, and scope.

• Participates in departmental meetings, contributing ideas or feedback and identifies potential areas for improvement including processes that could be streamlined or revised to improve patient satisfaction and seeks a team approach to developing and achieving best practices and processes.

• Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abides by service behavior standards.

• Delivers detail-oriented, consistent, flexible care and completes advanced tasks consistent with scope and performs other duties as assigned by management.

Skills

• Technical competency

• Regulatory compliance
• Financial awareness
• Service delivery
• Job performance
• Reliability and Attendance
• Communication
• Organization
• Computer proficiency

Qualifications

Minimum

• High School or equivalent is required
• Current pharmacy technician certification and/or license applicable to state of practice.
• Current knowledge of state and federal regulations and statutes regarding the practice of pharmacy and the distribution of approved drugs, controlled substances, and investigational agents.
• Any lapse or failure to meet these requirements may result in disciplinary action, up to termination, at the hiring manager's discretion.

Preferred

• Sterile compounding experience is strongly preferred.
• Chemotherapy compounding experience is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Carrying, hearing/listening, lifting, manual dexterity, pulling/pushing, seeing, climbing, crawling, speaking, squatting/kneeling, standing, walking as needed to perform job duties.

Location:

Platte Valley Hospital

Work City:

Brighton

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

32

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$20.73 - $31.58

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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