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About the Role
UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital, dedicated to building A Healthier World through discovery, education, and patient care. This role is crucial for ensuring the safe and effective dispensing of medications in an outpatient pharmacy setting.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Provide direct and/or functional supervision of technician staff
- Perform other duties consistent with the job classification, as required
Requirements
- 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
- Familiarity with dispensing processes for out of province patients
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- 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
- 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 that is misleading, inaccurate or incorrect may result in the discontinuation of their application.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
- Working knowledge of adherence programs including but not limited to compliance packaging, refill synchronization, and refill management
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service & interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
Location
- Toronto Western Hospital
- possibility of cross coverage at Toronto General Hospital & Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Work Type
- Temporary Part-Time
- 12 Months Contract
Experience Level
- Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy practice experience preferred
- Hospital pharmacy residency an asset
- Experiences in handling blister pack an asset
Education Level
- Bachelors of Science Degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree
- Certificate of competency from the Pharmacy Examination Board of Canada
- Active registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (Part A)
- Certificate of competency from an accredited smoking cessation program and flu vaccination injection program
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 48.51 - CAD 60.64 - 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.