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Pharmacy technical assistant

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: French
  • Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week
  • Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
  • Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years

Work setting

  • Pharmacy or drugstore
  • On-site customer service

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
  • Clean and maintain equipment
  • Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
  • Bill third party insurers
  • Compound oral solutions, ointments and creams
  • Maintain inventories of medications and prescription records of pharmaceutical products
  • Collect statistics
  • Maintain supplies
  • Maintain inventory of equipment
  • Perform general clerical duties
  • Order supplies and equipment
  • Organize and maintain inventory
  • Schedule and confirm appointments

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Pharmacy technician Certification
  • CPR Certificate

Computer and technology knowledge

  • MS Excel
  • MS Office
  • MS Outlook
  • MS Windows
  • MS Word

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Manual dexterity
  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Reliability
  • Ability to multitask
  • Creativity
  • Dedication

Screening questions

  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Employment terms options

  • Evening

Employment terms options

  • Flexible hours
  • Morning
  • Day
  • Weekend

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Life insurance

Long term benefits

  • Long-term care insurance

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • On-site amenities
  • Other benefits
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Team building opportunities
  • Parking available
  • Variable or compressed work week

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)

Support for youths

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

Support for Indigenous people

  • Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)