Pharmacy Technician - IDS

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