Job Description
Union: Non-Union
Site: Toronto Western Hospital, possibility of cross coverage at Toronto General Hospital & Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Department: Outpatient Pharmacy, Shoppers Drug Mart
Reports to: Manager
Work Model: On-Site
Grade: D0:09
Hours: Varies
Salary: $47.09 to $58.87 per hour (To commensurate with experience and consistent with UHN compensation policy)
Status: Casual
Closing Date: November 1, 2024
Duties
- Review, verify, check and dispense all prescribed medication orders for appropriateness
- Identify, resolve and prevent drug related problems
- Monitor drug therapy for effectiveness, toxicity and adherence to evidence based medicine/guidelines
- Conduct medication reconciliation
- Follow up on medication incidents and promote safe medication practices on the unit
- Respond to drug information questions
- Providing direct and/or functional supervision of technician staff
- Performing other duties consistent with the job classification, as required
Qualifications
- Completion of university degree (Bachelors of Science Degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree), or equivalent required
- Certificate of competency from the Pharmacy Examination Board of Canada required
- Active registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (Part A) required
- Certificate of competency from an accredited smoking cessation program and flu vaccination injection program required
- Familiarity with common drug regimens and dispensing process for specialty medications, as well as familiarity with dispensing processes for out of province patients
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Strong interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
- Working knowledge of adherence programs including but not limited to compliance packaging, refill synchronization, and refill management
- Manual billings, out of province billings and specialty meds related billings
- Experience/working knowledge of HealthWatch Delta paperless workflow module and Points of Sales System
- Experience handling pharmacy inventory
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service & interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy practice experience preferred
- Hospital pharmacy residency an asset
- Experiences in handling blister pack an asset
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
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