Pharmacy Technician; Casual - Locations

Pharmacy Technician (Casual - All Locations)

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Salary
: CAD $34.18 per hour.

We welcome applicants from all geographic regions. While encouraging applications from candidates interested in various locations, you can specify your preferred regions during the application process, ensuring you receive opportunities only in areas that interest you most.

We are a collaboration of four premier health employers—Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence, and Vancouver Coastal Health—providing an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence for patients, residents, and clients. We are committed to investing in your professional development and building an environment where you can advance your career.

We have exciting casual opportunities for Pharmacy Technicians across the Greater Vancouver area, Abbotsford/Hope/Boston Bar, Squamish/Whistler, and the Sunshine Coast – Sechelt/Powell River areas.

• Processing medication orders verified by a pharmacist
• Preparing, processing, dispensing, and compounding medications, including intravenous medications
• Transferring prescriptions to and receiving prescriptions from other pharmacies
• Utilizing the latest automation technology in the medication distribution system

You may also have the chance to work in specialty areas, be involved in pharmacy projects, and apply your critical thinking skills to help develop quality assurance processes.

We want a forward‑thinking, pleasant person with an eye for detail, who is self‑motivated and thrives independently. A methodical, conscientious, hands‑on approach is essential for completing routine tasks, managing changing priorities, and adapting to changing circumstances.

• Completion of a Pharmacy Technician Program
• Current practicing registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia

• A career that offers the opportunity to work in a fast‑growing, exciting organization alongside professionals eminent in their fields
• Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage

• Processes clinically reviewed and approved medication orders for distribution to patients, clients, or residents.
• Receives prescriptions (verbal and non‑verbal) from practitioners and verifies that prescriptions are complete and authentic.
• Prepares and processes prescriptions by entering orders, counting, measuring, packaging, or re‑packaging medications, and compounding sterile pharmaceutical products according to established procedures.
• Ensures the accuracy and completeness of dispensed prescriptions by performing final checks.
• Processes prescriptions for temporary inpatient leave of absence.
• Enters and ensures the accuracy and completeness of drug and personal health information in the pharmacy information system.
• Transfers prescriptions to and receives prescriptions from other pharmacies.
• Maintains accurate records such as medication verification and the results of quality assurance checks.
• Distributes medications and maintains relevant inventory, wardstock, and narcotic records.
• Maintains inventory and wardstock levels; fills wardstock and narcotic requisitions.
• Identifies outdated drugs for return or destruction by checking stock for lot expiry dates.
• Maintains department work areas, ensures tidiness and order, and stocks pharmaceuticals, labels, containers, and glassware according to established procedures.
• Performs related clerical duties such as keyboarding, answering telephone, filing, and maintaining medication and prescription records.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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.

• Effective verbal and written communication.
• Ability to work…