Pharmacy Assistant

1 week ago

Leduc, Canada Willow Park (Leduc) Pharmasave Full time

The pharmacy assistant greets patients at the dispensary and is the first line of contact for the patients. The Pharmacy Assistant will help the pharmacist prepare drug orders and ensure excellent customer service is delivered when interacting with patients and clients.

**Responsibilities**:
Medication Management
- Enter patient data in the appropriate data base
- Accept a new written prescription or a request for a prescription refill from the patient or patient's agent.
- Create and maintain computerized patient record.
- Assess prescription for completeness and authenticity.
- Enter prescription order into dispensing system to generate a label and (if necessary) a receipt.
- Verify correct prescription pricing.
- Alert pharmacist of potential drug interactions, medication adherence issues, or any other situation where the pharmacist is required to intervene.
- Retrieve, count, pour, weigh, measure, mix, reconstitute, compound medications.
- Select appropriate prescription container.
- Affix prescription label and appropriate auxiliary labels to prescription container.
- Perform final verification to assure technical accuracy of prescription.
- File filled prescriptions for pickup under appropriate storage conditions.
- Verify that each patient receives the correct prescription.
- File all prescriptions. Look up previous prescriptions when needed.
- Greet patients at the dispensary counter and address and assist all customers near the dispensary.
- Communicates clearly with patients, peers, management, and other health care professionals through a variety of media using effective and appropriate communication skills.
- Advise the pharmacist of all vital information/alerts encountered during the prescription filling process.
- Refer any questions requiring the clinical knowledge, skills and judgment of a pharmacist to the pharmacist.
- Answer telephones to screen calls for the pharmacist and respond to requests where appropriate.
- Maintain confidentiality of patient information.
- Provide patient with filled prescriptions when they arrive for pick up.
- Accept requests for refills in person and via telephone
- Maintain the cleanliness of the pharmacy counter, shelves and dispensing equipment.

Inventory Management
- Monitor stock and supply levels to ensure sufficient quantities for optimal operation.
- Prepare and order stock and supplies from indicated source.
- Receive and verify stock and supplies purchased and follow up with discrepancies.
- Restock dispensary shelves ensuring stock is rotated as per expiry dates.
- Routinely audit inventory for discrepancies.
- Issue supplies from the storeroom.
- Prepackage medications (including unit dose packaging).
- Ensure that the dispensary is always stocked with adequate supplies including prescription containers, bags and other supplies.

Education and Experience:

- High school graduate or college graduate, preferred
- MINIMUM of 1 year experience as a pharmacy assistant

Qualifications and Skills:

- Computer proficiency with Word, Excel spreadsheets, Kroll, Netcare, and other database programs
- Very strong interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Communicates effectively at all levels
- Takes initiative
- Excellent phone manner, speaks clearly and professionally
- Very strong attention to details

**Job Type**: Part Time Position MUST be willing to work weekends

**Job Types**: Part-time, Temporary

**Salary**: $35,360.00-$41,600.00 per year

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift

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