Pharmacy Aide

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 35 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- ** 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
- Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
- Prepare medications for clients
- Set up and dismantle equipment
- Supervise and direct activities of other medical technologists or technicians
- Assemble or build prosthetic and orthotic appliances according to drawings, measurements and plaster casts
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
- Design and fabricate ocular implants
- Help with scheduling and workflow
- Lay out surgical instruments
- Plan menus and diet for individuals or groups under direction of dietition or nutritionist
- 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
- Record vital signs
- Assist chiropractor with patient health education
- Assist in supervising personnel who prepare and serve food
- Clean and dress wounds
- Label and process donated blood
- Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
- Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
- Take body or limb measurements of patients
- Advise patients in the use and care of prostheses and orthoses
- 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
- Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
- Remove casts, sutures and pins
- Assist dietitians with research in food, nutrition and food service systems
- Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
- Collect statistics
- Maintain supplies
- Interpret physician's specification
- Maintain inventory of equipment
- Monitor donors throughout procedure
- Advise patients on loss of depth perception
- Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
- Make and modify plaster casts
- Perform general clerical duties
- Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
- Advise patients on care and use of ocular prostheses
- Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
- Repair and maintain fabrication and laboratory equipment
- Order supplies and equipment
- Organize and maintain inventory
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- ** Supervision**:

- 1 to 2 people
- ** Computer and technology knowledge**:

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

- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Manual dexterity
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Physically demanding
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Reliability
- Ability to multitask
- Creativity
- Dedication
- ** Experience**:

- 1 to less than 7 months