Pharmacy Assistant - CPS

Loblaw; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay

Great Benefits

Employee Discount 30%

Job summary

Central Pharmacy Services, a Loblaw division, is hiring a Pharmacy Assistant in Mississauga. The role supports prescription processing, inventory, and packaging in a fast-paced retail pharmacy environment, ensuring accuracy and patient confidentiality.

Shoppers Drug Mart CPS emphasizes a stable schedule with fixed shifts and a Monday–Friday 2:00pm–10:00pm work window, offering comprehensive benefits and opportunities to contribute to efficient prescription handling and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Detail oriented with ability to prioritize work assignments.
• Experience in fast-paced environments requiring accuracy.
• Exposure to Hospital or Long Term Care Pharmacy and retail pharmacy settings.
• Pharmacy Technician Diploma from accredited college, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and package medications per Pharmacy Standards of Practice.
• Enter and maintain data within applicable systems accurately.
• Prioritize prescriptions within workflow.
• Prepare prescriptions for delivery and maintain privacy requirements.
• Possibly perform inventory management under pharmacist supervision.
• Maintain organized work area and ensure stock rotation.
• Operate prescription automation equipment and ensure supplies.
• Deliver completed prescriptions to designated areas on schedule.
• Support a respectful, inclusive team culture focused on patient safety.

Skills

Detail orientation

Prioritization

Team-oriented

Fast-paced environment

Maneuver quickly

Retail pharmacy experience

Customer service exposure

Education

Pharmacy Technician Diploma

Job description

Hiring Range / Échelle Salariale à L’embauche

$17.95 - $23.65 / 17,95$ - 23,65$ (per hour / de l’heure)

Referred applicants must not apply directly to this role. All referred applicants must use their unique referral link generated when they are referred by an existing colleague.

Location:

1685 Tech Avenue, Mississauga, Ontario, L4W 0A7

Looking for a career that offers a peaceful and high-tech work environment? Look no further than Central Pharmacy Services, - where tranquility and innovation go hand in hand. Our workplace is not only pristine, contemporary, and driven by technology where you can enjoy stable fixed shifts and a predictable schedule, that brings balance to your work-life.

At Central Pharmacy Services, we are the catalyst for the Future of Pharmacy. Shoppers Drug Mart is undergoing an unprecedented transformation that will revolutionize healthcare across Canada, and our CPS team is right at the heart of this remarkable change! We are committed to creating most streamlined and versatile central fill network in the country – let’s bring this vision to life together!

Why join us at Central Services?

Central Pharmacy Services is a division of Loblaw/Shoppers Drug Mart that centrally fills prescriptions for patients and provides other prescription processing services. By streamlining these crucial functions, we enable Pharmacists and their teams at Shoppers Drug Mart locations to focus on what is important – the patient! We pride ourselves on having a great team spirit.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Pay
• Great Benefits that are highly customizable and include a vacation purchase option
• Employee Discount of 30% on in store purchases

Why this role is important?

A Pharmacy Assistant (PA) plays a critical role in CPS operations by supporting efficient prescription processing, maintaining workflow continuity, and enabling Registered Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists to focus on their specialized responsibilities. PAs contribute directly to operational productivity, prescription turnaround times, and service delivery, making them essential to workforce efficiency, scalability, and CPS’s ability to meet growing prescription volumes while maintaining quality and patient safety.

Monday - Friday 02:00pm-10:00pm

What You’ll Do

• Prepare and package medications as per Pharmacy Standards of Practice, ensuring all relevant information and documentation are complete
• Accurately enter and maintain appropriate data within the applicable systems
• Ensure prescriptions are prioritized correctly by the workflow
• Prepare each prescription quickly and accurately
• Prepare prescriptions for delivery
• Ensure all privacy requirements are met, including customer confidentiality
• May be required to perform inventory management under the direction and supervision of the pharmacist
• Maintain proper storage of medications within the pharmacy
• Ensure stock bottles are put away by the established workflow
• Put away pharmacy inventory in the appropriate location by the established workflow
• Ensure stock rotation is completed and the expired product is removed from the shelf and returned by standard operating procedures
• Operate and maintain the prescription automation equipment used to generate and produce weekly compliance packs or vials for client pharmacies
• Ensure that the prescription automation equipment has necessary supply of proper accessories (e.g. blister, labels, vials) to prepare the prescriptions
• Clean and maintain the prescription automation equipment when necessary to ensure optimal performance
• Ensure adequate stock of pharmacy supplies and materials required for packaging and workflow
• Maintain an organized work area, including medication shelves and workstation cleanliness
• Ensure compliance with safety and privacy regulations
• Deliver completed prescriptions/products to designated areas according to schedule.
• Maintain a professional and inclusive work environment.
• Support a respectful and collaborative team culture with attention to accuracy and patient safety

What you bring:

• Detail oriented and ability to prioritize work assignments
• Ability to adapt to change
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment where high attention to detail and accuracy is essential
• Ability to work and maneuver quickly and consistently for extended periods of time
• Positive, cooperative, and team-oriented attitude
• Exposure to Hospital or Long Term Care Pharmacy
• Experience working in a retail pharmacy environment
• Pharmacy Technician Diploma from accredited college, but not required

Employment Type

Full time

Type Of Role

Regular

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