Pharmacy Technician - Full-Time, Impactful Patient Care

Fraser Health Authority; North Vancouver; On-site; CAD 41,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

Fraser Health is hiring a Pharmacy Technician for Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, BC. This full-time role involves processing medication orders, verifying prescriptions, and maintaining pharmacy records in a fast-paced healthcare setting.

The successful candidate will have BC Pharmacy Technician registration and graduate from an accredited program, with strong communication and organizational skills to ensure patient safety and high-quality service.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 and graduation from an accredited Pharmacy Technician program or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Current practicing registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.

Responsibilities

• Processes clinically reviewed and approved medication orders for distribution to a patient, client or resident.
• Receives prescriptions (verbal and non verbal) from practitioners and ensures that prescriptions are complete and authentic by performing duties such as verifying allergy status and/or demographics.
• Prepares and processes prescriptions by performing duties such as entering orders, counting, measuring, packaging or re-packaging medications and compounding various sterile pharmaceutical products according to established procedures.
• Ensures the accuracy and completeness of dispensed prescriptions prepared by self or others by verifying order entries, and/or performing the final check of dispensed prescriptions.
• Transfers prescriptions to and receives prescriptions from other pharmacies.
• Maintains inventory and wardstock levels. Fills wardstock and narcotic requisitions.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Organization

Typing

Equipment operation

Physical fitness

Education

Pharmacy Technician program

BC Pharmacists College registration

Tools

Pharmacy information system

Job description

Fraser Health is hiring a Pharmacy Technician for Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, BC. This full-time role involves processing medication orders, verifying prescriptions, and maintaining pharmacy records in a fast-paced healthcare setting.

The successful candidate will have BC Pharmacy Technician registration and graduate from an accredited program, with strong communication and organizational skills to ensure patient safety and high-quality service.