Pharmacy Intern, Hourly Full Time Flexible Shifts

Shoppers Drug Mart; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 30,307 - 39,606; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Purchase discount program

Flexible schedules

Comprehensive training

Job summary

Shoppers Drug Mart in Ottawa is seeking pharmacy interns to deliver health, beauty, and convenience services while ensuring an exceptional customer experience. Interns will be exposed to a community pharmacy setting, enhancing their academic training with real-world experience.

Responsibilities include pharmacy and customer service, privacy management, and patient counseling. The position offers competitive pay ranging from $22.00 to $28.75 per hour along with flexible schedules and comprehensive training.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with patients and healthcare workers.
• Ability to manage patient confidentiality and consent.
• Knowledge of drug therapy and patient counseling skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmacy and customer service.
• Acknowledge all customers approaching the Pharmacy.
• Meet all privacy requirements, ensuring customer confidentiality.

Skills

Customer service skills

Communication skills

Knowledge of OTC products

Confidentiality and consent management

Education

Pharmacy Intern

Job description

Join a locally owned and operated store to help deliver health, beauty and convenience services in your community, and keep the customer at the centre of everything you do.

Summary

Join a locally owned and operated store to help deliver health, beauty and convenience services in your community, and keep the customer at the centre of everything you do.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Pharmacy and Customer Service
• Acknowledge all customers approaching the Pharmacy
• Ensure all privacy requirements are met, including customer confidentiality and consent management
• Be clearly identifiable to the public

Why this role is important?

Here at Shoppers Drug Mart, we take pride and ownership in helping Canadians live life well. We’re looking for talented individuals who are passionate about providing an exceptional shopping experience for our Pharmacy customers and delighting them every step of the way!

We can offer progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility and a great benefits package! Come share our vision and passion in delivering a superior customer experience. Be a part of our growing Health & Wellness philosophy! We’re looking to provide practical experience for future pharmacists in a community pharmacy. Our retail / community environment will provide real world training to enhance academic experience. Interns will learn about the expanding roles of the community pharmacist.

What we offer

• Expose Interns to the practice of pharmacy in a community setting
• Enhance communication skills with patients, employees, and other health care workers
• Knowledge of OTC products, disease state management, drug therapy, and patient counseling skills
• Teach skills necessary to manage a retail pharmacy
• Prepare future pharmacists to be successful in a community setting.

If you want to join a fast‑paced winning team and believe you can have an immediate impact, then we want to hear from you.

Why work in a Shoppers Drug Mart store?

Each store has an Associate‑Owner, so you will work for a local business owner while having the support of a national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program, flexible and varied schedules, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your patients, co‑workers, customers and community.

Associate Owners in the Shoppers Drug Mart network recognize Canada’s diversity as an opportunity to better serve their communities, and strive to reflect the nation’s evolving diversity in the products they sell, the people they hire, and the culture they create in their stores. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche

$22.00 - $28.75 per hour. A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position.