Pharmacy Clerk
Bayshore HealthCare
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Edmonton, AB
Contract type: Full time
About The Role
Under the direct supervision of a licensed Pharmacist, the assistant works under the guidance of the Pharmacist. It's possible to begin a career as a pharmacy clerk. Pharmacy clerks perform basic administrative and organizational tasks in a pharmaceutical setting. They create and maintain patient files, but they are not permitted to fill prescriptions.
A Day in the Life
AB-Edmonton
Under the direct supervision of a licensed Pharmacist, the assistant works under the guidance of the Pharmacist. It's possible to begin a career as a pharmacy clerk. Pharmacy clerks perform basic administrative and organizational tasks in a pharmaceutical setting. They create and maintain patient files, but they are not permitted to fill prescriptions.
A Day in the Life
- Assist the pharmacist in maintaining federal, provincial, and local laws, accrediting body standards, and Policies and Procedures (P&Ps)
- Answer telephones, forward calls, take messages and assist customers
- Might work directly with patient data and complete tasks such as preparing insurance forms and maintaining patient profiles
- Perform prescription data entry to track drug lot numbers as required
- Assists the pharmacists in the preparation and labeling of medications as allowed by law
- Appropriate assembly of drugs and supplies by matching codes and quantities from the compounding document
- Correct labeling of product
- Ensuring compounding product gets matched to the right delivery just prior to shipping
- Assists the pharmacist in maintaining appropriate inventory levels
- Orders, receives and stores medications and supplies in appropriate environment
- Performs physical inventories according to (P&Ps)
- Maintains pharmacy records including filing and documenting required information on dispensing records
- Communicates appropriately with all members of the healthcare team
- Communicates with patients via email
- Documents appropriately according to P&Ps, all activities using required paperwork (logs)
- Preparing medication strips using PACMED machine
- Preparing blister packs
- Counting and packaging of medications/ devices as allowed by law
- Checking expiry dates and removing expired medications
- Scanning pharmacy records and collecting payments
- Following up with Doctor’s offices
- Performs other duties as assigned
- High school diploma or GED
- Strong computer skills
- Organized and disciplined
AB-Edmonton
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