Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor's degree
Experience
Will train
Work site environment
- Clean
Work setting
- Community or retail pharmacy
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Order and maintain stock of pharmaceutical supplies
- Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication
- Check prescriptions for proper dosage
- Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the right quantities of drugs and other ingredients
- Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or to other health care professionals and advise them on indications, contra-indications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage
- Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
- Manage the storage, packaging and distribution of medicinal products
- Evaluate labelling, packaging and advertising of drug products
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Certification for drug administration by injection and intranasal route
- Pharmacy Examining Boards of Canada Certification
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Eligible for professional liability insurance
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Other benefits