Pharmacy Technician
Multiple U.S. locationsJob$41.22/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Pharmacy Technician prepares and dispenses medications for patients under a pharmacist’s guidance, prioritizing accuracy, timeliness, and patient safety. The role includes preparing IV admixtures, filling unit-dose orders and cassettes, managing floor-stock medications, and following narcotic sign-out and restocking procedures. The position is at Mercy General Hospital, an acute-care nonprofit hospital in Sacramento.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Pharmacy Tech, you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.
Every day, you will build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times. Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.
To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times. You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.
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Prepares IV admixtures accurately using aseptic technique and properly labels, logs and initials final product. Measurement procedure: accuracy documented on daily IV shift Quality Assurance log; Exceeds (3) top quartile. Does Not Meet (1) Bottom quartile.
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Fills unit dose orders timely and accurately, including extemporaneous compounding. Exceeds (3) top quartile. Does Not Meet (1) Bottom quartile.
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Omnicell/floor stock medications are filled accurately and in a timely manner. Exceeds (3) top quartile. Does Not Meet (1) Bottom quartile.
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Follows department narcotic sign-out and restocking procedure including investigation and documentation of discrepancies. Measured by compliance per year. Exceeds (3) top quartile. Does Not Meet (1) Bottom quartile.
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Fills unit dose cassettes accurately and within allotted time standard set by department. Measurement procedure: Exceeds (3) top quartile. Does Not Meet (1) Bottom quartile.
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Completes all job tasks for assigned shift on a daily basis.
Job Requirements
Required
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One (1) year of acute care hospital pharmacy practice experience or
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Six (6) week Pharmacy Technician externship at a Dignity Health Sacramento Division Hospital or
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Five (5) years of recent Retail Pharmacy experience processing TARs and PAs (within the last 3 years) or
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One (1) year of recent experience in Pharmacy Managed Care (within the last 3 years) and
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Pharmacy Technician: CA.
Preferred
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Completion of an ASHP accredited Pharmacy Technician program and Experience in the preparation of intravenous admixtures and antineoplastic/chemotherapeutic/hazardous medications.
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Experience working in a USP 797 clean room.
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Certified Pharmacy Tech PTCB.
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Certified Pharmacy Tech NCCT.
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Certified Pharmacy Tech ECPT.
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1925, Dignity Health - Mercy General Hospital is a 310-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Sacramento, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy General Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.
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Pay Range
$41.22 - $41.22 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 13,525 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$41.22/hr
- California median$20–29/hr743 hourly ranges
- US median$18–27/hr10,739 hourly ranges
This rate, $41.22/hr, is 72% above the California median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the top quarter of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 816 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in California and 13,525 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CVS Health246 open
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- Experience
- Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,591 postings).
- Education
- 189 of the 13,525 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 3, 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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