Job Description
Job Description
About the Client:
This well-established community pharmacy, located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, has served its local and national patient base for more than 15 years. The pharmacy offers a combination of traditional prescription services and advanced compounding capabilities, including customized medications tailored to individual health needs. Known for its emphasis on quality, safety, and patient-centered care, the pharmacy provides services such as prescription fulfilment, immunizations, medical equipment support, and delivery options. With licensure in multiple states and a commitment to high standards in both sterile and nonsterile compounding, it plays an important role in providing personalized healthcare solutions to a wide range of patients.
Job Type and Setting:
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The role is full-time, on-site, working in a cleanroom/ISO-classified environment.
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Monday to Friday schedule (typical day shift)
Key Responsibilities:
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Perform and/or supervise the preparation of compounded sterile products (CSPs) in an ISO-classified cleanroom environment.
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Ensure full compliance with applicable regulatory standards, including USP <797> (sterile compounding), USP <800> (hazardous drugs) where applicable, state pharmacy laws and relevant clean-room/gowning protocols.
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Review medication orders (including for compounded sterile preparations) for accuracy, appropriateness, compatibility, and patient safety (including drug interactions, dosing, etc.).
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Maintain and verify compounding records, batch logs, beyond-use dates, lot numbers, expiration dates, environmental monitoring logs, cleaning/maintenance logs.
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Oversee or conduct environmental monitoring, perform cleanroom/laminar-flow hood maintenance checks, ensure equipment is calibrated and functioning properly (e.g., laminar hoods, isolators, autoclaves).
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Develop, revise, implement, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for sterile compounding, garbing, cleaning, disinfection, gowning, and environmental monitoring.
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Provide training, competency assessment and oversight of pharmacy technicians and other staff involved in sterile compounding.
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Ensure that finished compounded sterile products are properly labelled, packaged, stored and dispensed according to policies and regulations.
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Participate in internal audits, inspections, root-cause/corrective action processes to ensure compliance and quality assurance.
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Stay up to date with regulatory changes, best practices in aseptic technique, sterile compounding standards, and ensure the compounding environment is continuously maintained for sterility and safety.
Qualifications:
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Experience with sterile compounding.
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Familiar with USP <797> and <800>.
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Perform compounding in ISO-classified environments.
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Maintain documentation and assist in cleanroom sanitization.
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Experience writing/following SOPs preferred
Work Environment:
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This position requires working within ISO-classified cleanrooms and adherence to strict aseptic gowning and sterile technique. Standing for extended periods and lifting moderate weights may be required.