If you’re looking for unique opportunities and excellent benefits, a pharmacy technician career at VA might just be the prescription you need. We’re looking for candidates like you, with the top-notch organizational skills to help keep our pharmacies running.
A unique environment
As a pharmacy technician at VA, you’ll work closely with our pharmacists to ensure the health and safety of our Veterans. It will be your responsibility to locate, dispense, pack and label prescribed medication for patients.
Since VA offers some pharmacists the unique ability to write prescriptions independently, the work of a pharmacy tech is even more important. When you join our team, you’ll be that much closer to the decisions being made to assist our Veterans.
The environment will be unique as well, with the opportunity to work in both outpatient and inpatient settings.
While some Veterans may require prescriptions that they take home with them, other patients might need your assistance in the halls of our VA medical centers. Those Veterans who need chemotherapy or IV dosages will be looking to you to make sure their medications are provided safely and securely.
When not interacting with our Veterans, you might also help pharmacists with administrative tasks such as processing insurance claims, tracking inventory and filing paperwork, or even updating and replenishing the supplies on the emergency carts used by our teams.
More than just a job
While we can tell you all about what you’ll be doing at VA, why not hear right from other pharmacy technicians on Indeed? It’s easy to see that our mission to care for Veterans has made a difference for them.
“I enjoyed my service,” shared a pharmacy tech who worked in Fresno, California. “It is a very rewarding job to help the same men and women who did their part saving our lives and protecting our country. I loved each and every one of my Veterans. They were so sweet and very good to me, and I tried to do the same thing for all of them.”
“While working at the VA, I have so much fun,” an employee from Gainesville, Florida, offered. “It gives you the opportunity to grow as a person and as an employee. The hours are great, the people I work for are great. I highly recommend working for VA.”
“This is a nice place to work!” an employee from Indianapolis said. “You get to interact with Veterans and help take care of the people who served our country. It’s very rewarding at the end of the day.”
Benefits you can count on
With a job as a pharmacy technician at VA, you’ll be able to take advantage of numerous benefits that will change not only your career, but your personal life as well.
We offer the choice of a variety of health maintenance organizations or fee-for-service health plans, and all cover preexisting conditions. Additionally, we pay up to 75% of health premiums, a benefit that can continue into retirement, making our insurance some of the best you’ll find in health care.
At VA, our employees receive 13 to 26 paid vacation/personal days, as well as 13 sick days annually with no limit on accumulation, and we celebrate 11 paid federal holidays each year, so your schedule can be balanced with your personal priorities.
And when you’re ready for a new challenge, we offer ongoing leadership development through every level of employment, whether it is mandatory programs or competitive opportunities. We also have resources that make it easier for you to continue your education, if you choose.
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