Skip to content

Main menu. Press enter or space keys to expands and escape key to collapse

General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
varied shifts, depending on department needs, including weekends and holidays
Posted Date
06/03/2024
Salary Range: $35.2 - 35.2 Hourly
Employment Type
6 - Staff: Per Diem
Duration
per diem
Job #
16032

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Play a key role in the delivery of world-class patient care. Continuously elevate quality of care within an award winning health system. Leverage your expertise to make a life changing difference. At UCLA Health Pharmacy, you can do all this and more. 

 

Under the supervision of Senior Storeroom Personnel, you will work in conjunction with and independently to ensure inventory levels for pharmaceuticals are at par in designated storage areas. Duties may include establishing par levels, cycle counts, ordering product to replenish par levels, procuring non-formulary drugs, interdepartmental medication billing, filling departmental orders to the satellite pharmacies and clinics. You will be required to receive and store incoming drug products and supplies, verify quantities against invoices and check for outdated/expired medications in current inventory.

 

Schedule: Varied hours, depending on department needs, including weekends and holidays

Hourly Salary: $35.20

Bargaining Unit: EX - AFSCME


Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a dedicated professional with:

  • California Pharmacy Technician License
  • 1 year storeroom or procurement experience  in inpatient or outpatient setting
  • Completion of high school  or equivalent
  • Preferred 2 year Associate of Arts degre
  • Knowledge of purchasing practices such as inventory control.
  • Knowledge of medical terminology and pharmaceutical abbreviations.
  • Skill in operating a Windows-based computer used to purchase drugs and maintain pharmacy inventory catalog for order entry system. 
  • Skills in writing grammatically correct routine business correspondence such as departmental memorandum, performance evaluations.
  • Ability to speak on a one-to-one basis using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to obtain information, resolve problems, and explain policies and procedures.
  • Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with internal and external staff.
  • Skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers to determine minimum and maximum par levels and order quantities.
  • Ability to accurately perform pharmaceutical calculations.
  • Skill in performing under the stress of frequent interruptions and/or distraction.
  • Skill in working independently and flowing through on assignments with minimal directions.
  • Skill in prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely manner when there are changes in workload and under the pressure of ordering deadlines.
  • Ability to walk, reach and bend. Ability to push/pull up to one hundred (50) pounds and left/carry various items weighing up to (25) pounds. Ability to maneuver pallets onto a pallet jack, count product above and below waist level.
  • Knowledge of using hand held ordering devices.
  • Knowledge of using Care Connect.
  • Knowledge of ordering specific products in distributors online access modules.
  • Knowledge of knowing pharmacy cost centers and natural expense classifications.


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.