Druggist

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: Bilingual
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: Bachelor's degree
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- Clean
**Work setting**:

- Community or retail pharmacy
**Tasks**:

- Advise customers on indications, contraindications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage
- Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or to other health care professionals
- Administer budget
- 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
- Hire and train staff
- Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
- Manage the storage, packaging and distribution of medicinal products
- Supervise and co-ordinate the activities of other pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and other staff
- Control the quality of drug products during production to ensure that they meet standards of potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety
- Develop information materials concerning the uses, properties and risks of particular drugs
- Evaluate labelling, packaging and advertising of drug products
- Leading/instructing individuals
- Establish work schedules
- Manage staff and assign duties
**Supervision**:

- 1 to 2 people
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Certification for drug administration by injection and intranasal route
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
**Security and safety**:

- Eligible for professional liability insurance
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Attention to detail
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Collaborative
**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:

- Bonus
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
**Long term benefits**:

- Long-term care insurance
**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Other benefits
- Parking available
- Travel insurance
- Variable or compressed work week