Pharmacy Aide

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
- **Work setting**:

- Pharmacy or drugstore
- ** 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
- Prepare medications for clients
- Set up and dismantle equipment
- Supervise and direct activities of other medical technologists or technicians
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
- Design and fabricate ocular implants
- Help with scheduling and workflow
- Lay out surgical instruments
- Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
- Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
- Record information about donors
- Assist chiropractor with patient health education
- Assist in supervising personnel who prepare and serve food
- Clean and dress wounds
- Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
- Take body or limb measurements of patients
- Bill third party insurers
- Compound oral solutions, ointments and creams
- Help patients complete menus
- Maintain inventories of medications and prescription records of pharmaceutical products
- Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
- Collect statistics
- Maintain supplies
- Clean and restore ocular prostheses
- Interpret physician's specification
- Maintain inventory of equipment
- Advise patients on loss of depth perception
- Perform general clerical duties
- Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
- Repair and maintain fabrication and laboratory equipment
- Order supplies and equipment
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- ** Computer and technology knowledge**:

- MS Excel
- MS Office
- MS Outlook
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Initiative
- Reliability
- Dedication