PHARMACIST - ON-SITE - LONDON

GreenShield; London; On-site; CAD 73,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

GreenShield is seeking a Pharmacist (Operations Role) for its online pharmacy to oversee dispensary operations, verify prescriptions, counsel patients, and support clinical services under the Ontario College of Pharmacists guidelines. You will ensure safety, quality, and efficiency while training staff and contributing to reporting metrics to leadership.

You will work within a patient-centered team, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and delivering high-quality pharmaceutical services

Qualifications

• Dispensary operations oversight and patient care within the dispensary and as part of prescription dispensing activities.
• Clinically verify prescriptions entered in the pharmacy management system.
• Counsel on prescriptions as deemed appropriate and in line with Ontario College of Pharmacists standards of practice and ethics.
• Oversee all compounding activities to ensure patient safety and adherence to standard operating procedures and Ontario College of Pharmacists standards of practice.
• Monitor and adjust dispensary operations and standard operating procedures as needed to maintain patient safety, accuracy, customer service, and patient care.
• Train pharmacy team members to ensure sound operations and adherence to standards of practice and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in identifying, documenting, analyzing, and resolving medication incidents using Pharmapod.

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmacist oversight and patient care within the dispensary and as part of prescription dispensing activities.
• Clinically verify prescriptions entered in the pharmacy management system.
• Counsel on prescriptions as deemed appropriate and in line with Ontario College of Pharmacists standards of practice and ethics.
• Oversee all compounding activities to ensure patient safety and adherence to standard operating procedures and Ontario College of Pharmacists standards of practice.
• Monitor and adjust dispensary operations and standard operating procedures as needed to maintain patient safety, accuracy, customer service, and patient care.
• Train pharmacy team members to ensure sound operations and adherence to standards of practice and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in identifying, documenting, analyzing, and resolving medication incidents using Pharmapod.

Job description

WHO WE ARE

When it comes to health, we’re always looking for waysto push for better. It’s why we were founded in the first place. In 1957, ourfounder, pharmacist William Wilkinson, witnessed a mother sacrifice her healthby forgoing her own medicine to pay for her sick daughter’s prescription. Heknew there had to be a better way. So, he introduced North America’s firstprepaid drug plan, and GreenShield was born as a not-for-profit with a missionto support better health for all Canadians.

We aren’t just a health and benefits company. We’rethe only not-for-profit social enterprise that brings worlds of coverage andcare together, all in one place.
We’re noble challengers, purposefully building a betterway and we need the best people to help us create a more holistic approach thattakes care of the mind and body.
Our mission is to create better health for allCanadians, and we know that starts with our employees.

THEROLE IN A NUTSHELL

Base Salary: CAD $72,521.00 - 109,341.00

As the Pharmacist (Operations Role) at ouronline pharmacy, you play a pivotal role in customer service, patient care, anddelivery of pharmacy services to our growing patient population. Yourresponsibilities encompass the entire practice scope for Pharmacists under theOntario College of Pharmacists. This includes ensuring the safety and qualityof pharmaceutical product preparation and release, providing service andsupport to our group home residents and staff, clinical verification ofprescription orders, prescription counseling, overseeing all dispensaryactivities, and providing training, guidance, and direction on standardoperating procedures for the pharmacy. You will participate in some clinicalservices such as minor ailments prescribing and pharmaceutical opinions as wellas supporting opportunities for the clinical pharmacist team in determiningpatient eligibility and fitness for the full suite of clinical services weoffer (identify, approach, and schedule patient services). In addition, you maybe called upon to provide reporting on various metrics to support decisionmaking by leadership. Your role is crucial in maintaining a seamless workflow,meeting deadlines, and delivering exceptional customer service. In all theduties you perform it is essential to comply with all ethics and standards ofpractise of the Ontario College of Pharmacists for Regulated PharmacyTechnicians and under the supervision of licensed Pharmacists.
Key Responsibilities:

• 1 - Dispensary Operations:

• Provide pharmacist oversight and patient care within the dispensary and as part of prescription dispensing activities.
• Clinically verify prescriptions entered in the pharmacy management system.
• Counsel on prescriptions as deemed appropriate and in line with Ontario College of Pharmacists standards of practice and ethics.
• Oversee all compounding activities to ensure patient safety and adherence to standard operating procedures and Ontario College of Pharmacists standards of practice.
• Monitor and adjust dispensary operations and standard operating procedures as needed to maintain patient safety, accuracy, customer service, and patient care.
• Train pharmacy team members to ensure sound operations and adherence to standards of practice and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in identifying, documenting, analyzing, and resolving medication incidents using Pharmapod.