Pharmacy Helper

Education: College/CEGEP
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
- or equivalent experience
- ** Tasks**:

- Maintain inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
- Repair, build and modify prosthetic or orthotic appliances or footwear
- Supervise and direct activities of other medical technologists or technicians
- Assemble or build prosthetic and orthotic appliances according to drawings, measurements and plaster casts
- Plan menus and diet for individuals or groups under direction of dietition or nutritionist
- Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
- Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
- Advise patients in the use and care of prostheses and orthoses
- Maintain inventories of medications and prescription records of pharmaceutical products
- Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
- Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
- Assist dietitians with research in food, nutrition and food service systems
- Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
- Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
- Consult with ophthalmologists concerning insertion of ocular prostheses
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 hours per week