Pharmacy Technician

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The salary range for this position is CAD $34.18 - $34.18 / hour

Job Summary
Are you motivated to join a dedicated team of health care providers in this dynamic and rewarding role? Are you interested in a career where you can make an impact on the well-being of others?

Get to know Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services:
We are a collaboration of four premier health employers: Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence, and Vancouver Coastal Health. We provide an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence to patients, residents, and clients. We are committed to investing in your professional development and building an environment where you can advance your career.

Position Highlights:
We currently have an exciting Relief Full Time opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our team at Vancouver General Hospital located in Vancouver, BC . This relief role is available until approximately March 28, 2025, or until the return of the incumbent.
Rotation Hours Include: 0600-1400, 0630-1430, 0700-1500, 0730-1530, 0800-1600, 0830-1630, 0900-1700, 1000-1800, 1100-1900, 1200-2000, 1300-2100, 1400-2200, 1500-2300, 1600-0000.

We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand our ability to deliver prompt and professional service.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, here’s why we believe you should apply:

• A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast-growing and exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective fields.
• Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.

Our pharmacy team always aspires to improve and achieve the best possible care for our patients and improve their quality of life.

We aim to build an environment where you love the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. From the financial advisor handling our health care resources, to the IT professional enabling life-saving data, to the nurse and physician on the front line of patient care, everyone plays a role in the care continuum. Together, we build outstanding workplaces.

Apply now to join our excellent team
One team, best pharmacy care, better lives.

Detailed Overview
The Pharmacy Technician operates in accordance with the competency guidelines and scope/standards of practice for Pharmacy Technicians as outlined by the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia and according to organizational policies, procedures, standards, and unit-specific protocols.

Responsibilities

• Processes clinically reviewed and approved medication orders for distribution to a patient, client, or resident.
• Receives prescriptions (verbal and non-verbal) from practitioners and ensures that prescriptions are complete and authentic by performing duties such as verifying allergy status and/or demographics.
• Prepares and processes prescriptions by performing duties such as entering orders, counting, measuring, packaging, or re-packaging medications and compounding various sterile pharmaceutical products according to established procedures.
• Ensures the accuracy and completeness of dispensed prescriptions prepared by self or others by verifying order entries and/or performing the final check of dispensed prescriptions.
• Processes prescriptions for temporary inpatient leave of absence by methods such as reviewing, translating, and converting existing inpatient medication orders previously reviewed and approved by a pharmacist.
• Enters and ensures the accuracy and completeness of drug and personal health information in the pharmacy information system.
• Transfers prescriptions to and receives prescriptions from other pharmacies.
• Maintains accurate records such as medication verification and the results of quality assurance checks.
• Distributes medications and maintains relevant inventory, wardstock, and narcotic records.
• Maintains inventory and wardstock levels. Fills wardstock and narcotic requisitions.
• Identifies outdated drugs to be returned or destroyed by checking stock for lot expiry dates.
• Maintains department work areas by ensuring tidiness and order. Stocks pharmaceuticals, labels, containers, and glassware in accordance with established procedures and standards.
• Performs related clerical duties such as keyboarding, answering telephone, filing, and maintaining medication and prescription records.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Education and Experience