Pharmacy Assistant

Your Opportunity:

The South Health Campus (SHC) pharmacy assistant, under the general supervision of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician, performs various medication preparations and moderately complex clerical duties in accordance with standard procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performs all ward stock functions.
• Performs all Automated Dispensing Cabinet functions.
• Transports pharmacy items between pharmacy, patient care areas and other departments.
• Packages and labels pharmaceuticals according to established procedures.
• Assists pharmacy technicians with non-sterile components of sterile pharmaceutical product preparation.
• Checks and fills wardstock, orders stock and receives pharmacy inventory and supplies according to established quotas and procedures.
• Monitors pharmacy inventory and supplies for outdated products.
• Charges and credits medications per established procedure.
• Prints and distributes reports from pharmacy computer system.
• Performs routine physical cleaning and maintenance on pharmacy equipment.
• Completes records and filing associated with all duties.
• Performs unit-based duties and communicates unit-based issues to other pharmacy staff for resolution.
• Participates in hospital and/or departmental quality assurance/improvement activities to ensure standards are maintained.
• Assists in training and orientation of new employees, students, and pharmacy residents.
• Maintains site-specific standards of performance, including achievement of mandatory internal certifications.
• Performs other duties deemed necessary or assigned.

The SHC has four key pillars of service: Collaborative Practice, Wellness, Patient and Family Centred Care, and Innovation. These pillars are guiding the development and delivery of service to all patients and families at SHC. Note: SHC Pharmacy Services provides 24/7 service.

Description:

As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will be responsible for the packaging, distributing, shipping medications and the management and replenishment of medication inventory levels under the general supervision of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.

Required Qualifications:

• Completion of Grade 12 or equivalent.

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) recent experience preferred (within 6 Months).
• SHC Pharmacy experience and Inventory preferred (within 6 months).
• Narcotic vault management preferred (within 6 Months).
• Demonstrates excellent communication, interpersonal and time management skills.
• Demonstrates good organizational, problem-solving and decision-making ability.
• Displays professionalism, tact, courtesy, discretion and respects confidentiality.
• Must be accurate, reliable, precise, cooperative, self-motivated and able to demonstrate effective service attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work all rotations and shift hours.
• Recent knowledge of various office equipment, unit dose packaging equipment, and pharmaceutical compounding equipment preferred.
• Experience with word processing and pharmacy computer software preferred.
• Knowledge of Pharmacy Drug Formulary preferred.