Health care
Pharmacy technician
$36.26 hourly
Pay is above the B.C. median for this work ($31.00 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
- Under 7 months' experience
- College/CEGEP
- English
From the posting's details in Job Bank's open data. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- 37.5 hours a week
- Shifts: days
- Full time, Permanent employment
- In person
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Pharmacy technicians usually require a two-year pharmacy technician college program or completion of a two- to three-year college program in pharmaceutics and supervised practical training.
- Completion of the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) certification exams is required for pharmacy technicians.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Pharmacy technicians (NOC 32124). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Assist pharmacists to maintain inventories of medications and prescription records of pharmaceutical products
- Assess prescriptions for completeness and ensure information is accurate
- Gather and enter client information in databases and prepare medications for clients in collaboration with pharmacists
- Compound pharmaceutical products such as intravenous injections, oral solutions, ointments and creams
- Process payment of prescriptions and other pharmacy services including direct billing to third party insurers
- Provide instructions on how to use health aids, and medical devices such as drug administration devices and monitoring devices
About the employer
- Industry: Health care and social assistance
- Region: North Coast Region
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From Job Bank.