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Pharmacy technical assistant

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: French
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
  • or equivalent experience

Work setting

  • Pharmacy or drugstore

Tasks

  • Ensure the information on prescriptions is accurate
  • Enter client information in databases
  • Help pharmacists
  • Maintain inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
  • Maintain prescription records
  • Prepare medications for clients
  • Help with scheduling and workflow
  • Maintain inventories of medications and prescription records of pharmaceutical products
  • Maintain inventory of equipment
  • Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
  • Order supplies and equipment
  • Organize and maintain inventory
  • Schedule and confirm appointments

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Standing for extended periods

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Flexibility

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Flexible hours
  • Day
  • Weekend

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Team building opportunities

Support for youths

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Indigenous people

  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities