Pharmacy Technical Assistant

Work setting

• Urban area
• Pharmacy or drugstore

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Ensure the information on prescriptions is accurate
• Enter client information in databases
• Help pharmacists
• Maintain inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
• Maintain prescription records
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
• Bill third party insurers
• Compound oral solutions, ointments and creams
• Maintain supplies
• Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
• Organize and maintain inventory

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Bending, crouching, kneeling