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Inpatient Pharmacy Tech III

UNC Health Care

Chapel Hill, NCFull-time$19.98–28.54/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$19.98–28.54/hr
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

NC Technician Registration Or PharmD Intern RegistrationPTCB CPhT Or NHA ExCPT

Job overview

The Inpatient Pharmacy Tech III leads technician training, identifies and implements process improvements, and helps prioritize pharmacy workflow. The role supports pharmacists by reviewing, compounding, preparing, and dispensing medications under licensed pharmacist supervision. It also supports medication delivery, automated dispensing technology, inventory management, customer requests, and regulatory compliance. The position is onsite, full-time, and offers a stated hourly hiring range.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Employee TrainingProcess ImprovementWorkflow PrioritizationMedication CompoundingMedication PreparationMedication DispensingAutomated Dispensing TechnologyInventory ManagementRegulatory Compliance

Qualifications

NC Technician Registration or PharmD Intern RegistrationPTCB CPhT or NHA ExCPTTwo Years Pharmacy Technician ExperienceAcademic Pharmacy Technician Training ProgramCurrent PharmD Enrollment

Full job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:

This position leads technician training efforts, identifies and executes process improvement opportunities, and prioritizes workflow. In addition, the position provides support to the pharmacist by reviewing, compounding and dispensing medications. All work is carried out under the supervision of a licensed Pharmacist.

This position qualifies for our Pharmacy Technician Incentive Program, which includes $5000 in commitment incentives spread over a two-year period. Payment is made after six months, one year, and two years of employment.

Responsibilities:

  1. Performs expert training of new employees, educating them in job-specific functions. Develops training materials, and completes training documentation.

  2. Operates independently on process improvement projects. Actively implements identified solutions.

  3. Assists the pharmacist in reprioritizing daily workflow to maintain patient care. Assists with schedule adjustments.

  4. Compounds and/or prepares medications (sterile products, oral, topical, controlled substances, etc.) as authorized by a physician, under the supervision of a licensed Pharmacist.

  5. Delivers exchanges medications to the respective patient area and returns unused medications to the pharmacy.

  6. Documents pharmaceutical activities including patient billing for medications and equipment, quality control requirements, etc. using automated and paper systems. Ensures accuracy of data.

  7. Responds to and triages requests from customers for assistance with pharmacy services such as medication delivery, drug information, etc.

  8. Operates and supports automated dispensing technology to supply correct medications for individual patients, according to pharmacist and physician orders.

  9. Orders, receives, restocks, and rotates inventory, and completes expiration date management.

  10. Assures regulatory compliance for medication storage areas, including inspections and/or controlled substance inventories, USP797 and other regulatory documentation as required.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

  • None required as long as other position qualifications are met. Completion of an academic pharmacy technician training program preferred. Current enrollment in PharmD program if working as a registered pharmacy intern with NC Board of Pharmacy.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

  • Registration as a technician with the NC Board of Pharmacy unless enrolled in a PharmD program. If currently enrolled, an NCBOP Pharmacy Intern registration may be accepted.

·CPhT from PTCB or ExCPT from NHA unless enrolled in a PharmD program; if enrolled, this can be waived for the duration of the PharmD program.

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • Two years of pharmacy technician experience required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

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Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Pharmacy Inpatient Operations

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $19.98 - $28.54 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Rotating

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 13,558 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$19.98–28.54/hr
  • North Carolina median$17–25/hr416 hourly ranges
  • US median$18–27/hr10,766 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $24.26/hr, is 15% above the North Carolina median midpoint ($21/hr) — in the top quarter of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in North Carolina.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 460 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in North Carolina and 13,558 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — more than three in four Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 2,594 postings).
Education
189 of the 13,558 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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