About the Role
This role involves assisting pharmacists with technical aspects of prescription dispensing, preparing extemporaneous products, managing inventory, and ensuring high standards of client relations within the Transplant Outpatient Pharmacy.
Responsibilities
- Working in conjunction with pharmacists in maintaining high standards of client relations
- Assisting pharmacists in accurately and efficiently performing all technical aspects relating to prescription dispensing responsibilities
- Preparing or compounding extemporaneous products using appropriate techniques under supervision of a pharmacist
- Performing activities relating to the maintenance and operation of Outpatient Pharmacy services
- Handling inventory and supplies and managing operations of blister packaging automation
- Performing other duties consistent with the job classification, as required
Requirements
- Completion of a Pharmacy Technician Program at an accredited college or recognized equivalent required
- Registration as a Pharmacy Technician (Part A) in good standing with the Ontario College of Pharmacists required
- Ability to work under minimal supervision and to manage competing priorities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to learn and troubleshoot changing technologies/machinery (e.g., automation for blister packaging, automation for dispensing, automation for storage)
- Ability to work variable shifts
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Manual billings, out of province billings and specialty medications billing
- Experience handling pharmacy inventory and supplies
- Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.
- A Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate.
- Any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.
Skills
- Beacon System
- Kroll
- SynMed automation
- ParataMax
- RxSafe
- Point of Sales System
Location
- Toronto General Hospital
Work Type
- Temporary Full-Time
- Contract
- 37.5 Hours per Week
Experience Level
- 1 Year Contract
Education Level
- Pharmacy Technician Program at an accredited college or recognized equivalent
- Registration as a Pharmacy Technician (Part A) in good standing with the Ontario College of Pharmacists
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 32.32 - CAD 37.26 - hourly
Benefits
- Competitive offer packages
- Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
- A flexible work environment
- Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
- Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)
About the Company
- UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital.
- With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre.
- As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.
- UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine.
- UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
- UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World and it’s only because of the talented and dedicated people who work here that we are continually bringing that vision closer to reality.
Equal Opportunity
- UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace.
- Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.
- Applicants need to make their requirements known.
