Career Opportunities

Job Description

Pharmacy Technician

This position involves the full spectrum of technician duties as part of the technician working to the full scope of practice that includes, but is not limited to:

• Customer service,
• Patient file administration, accepting prescriptions from
• Creating/updating patient electronic
• Administering third-party insurance coverage for
• Ensuring prescriptions and relevant patient documents are scanned to the patient file
• Filling prescriptions
• Preparing compliance
• Assisting clinical pharmacists directly:
  • Scheduling/organizing medication reviews and patient care
  • Managing patient care follow-ups.
• Maintaining drug inventories, which includes,
  • Product
  • Receiving orders and maintenance of drug files.
• Helping to maintain policies and procedures for the
• Assisting other technical staff in the management of a busy
• Technicians are involved in non-sterile and sterile compounding.
• The preparation of customized dosage forms for both human and animal patients.
• Preparing home parenteral antibiotic therapy in an aseptic environment – in a Microsphere® isolation

Although compounding for human patients continues to be a focus of this pharmacy, our veterinary compounding offers a unique opportunity to be part of the care and treatment of a wide variety of companion animals. That includes the expected canine and feline patients as well as the more exotic patients such as ferrets, birds, snakes, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, lizards, frogs, and much more.

The position requires applicants to be graduates of a recognized pharmacy technician program. This would have included exposure to both non-sterile and sterile compounding with a community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy practicum.  A working knowledge of the

Alberta College of Pharmacy compounding standards, as well as NAPRA and USP, will be important.

Job Type: Permanent

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Purchases discount
• Free parking
• No evening shifts

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Saturday (rotation)

Experience:

• Pharmacy technician: New Graduates welcome as well as experienced technicians
• Will consider new graduates from recognized pharmacy technician programs
• Compounding experience would be an asset but not a prerequisite.

License/Certification:

• Registration with Alberta College of Pharmacy (required)
• Will support new graduates working to become registered with the Alberta College of Pharmacy

Work Location:  (in person)

Stafford Pharmacy & Home Healthcare,
#5, 1475 St. Edward Blvd. No., Lethbridge, AB T1H 2P9

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