Pharmacy Technician
Folsom, CAJob$41.22/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Pharmacy Technician supports safe and effective medication delivery under pharmacist guidance. The role prepares IV admixtures, fills unit-dose and floor-stock orders, and follows procedures for narcotic sign-out, restocking, and discrepancy investigation. The position requires acute-care hospital pharmacy experience or an externship at the hiring facility, along with knowledge of hospital pharmacy restrictions, medication terminology, abbreviations, and calculations.
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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.
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Measurement procedure: accuracy documented on daily IV shift Quality Assurance log.
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Fills unit dose orders timely and accurately, including extemporaneous compounding.
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Omnicell/floor stock medications are filled accurately and in a timely manner.
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Follows department narcotic sign-out and restocking procedure including investigation and documentation of discrepancies.
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Measured by compliance per year.
Job Requirements
Required
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One (1) year of acute care hospital pharmacy practice experience or a six (6) week pharmacy technician externship at the hiring facility.
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Demonstrated knowledge of the legal restrictions on the activities of non-licensed personnel in a hospital pharmacy, medical abbreviations, pharmaceutical terminology and calculations, and generic/trade names of medications.
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Pharmacy Technician: CA.
Preferred
- Completion of an ASHP accredited Pharmacy Technician program.
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1989, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 106-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Folsom, California. Serving over 60,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy Hospital of Folsom has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. It was recently named a Leapfrog 2025 Top General Hospital.
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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 13,762 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$41.22/hr
- California median$20–29/hr748 hourly ranges
- US median$18–27/hr10,926 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 821 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in California and 13,762 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CVS Health247 open
- Walgreens242 open
- Walmart89 open
- Experience
- Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,635 postings).
- Education
- 188 of the 13,762 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 6, 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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