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Job Details

Pharmacist

Employer

Shoppers Drug Mart 2312

Date Posted

November 29, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Peace River, AB
  • Earnings $70.00 hourly
  • Work Hours 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Dec 29, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Shoppers Drug Mart 2312

Languages

English

Education

Bachelor's degree

Work setting

Relocation costs covered by employer

Tasks

  • Advise customers on indications, contraindications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage
  • Order and maintain stock of pharmaceutical supplies
  • Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication
  • Check prescriptions for proper dosage
  • Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the right quantities of drugs and other ingredients
  • Maintain medication profiles of customers including registry of poisons and narcotic and controlled drugs
  • Manage the storage, packaging and distribution of medicinal products
  • Supervise and co-ordinate the activities of other pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and other staff
  • Control the quality of drug products during production to ensure that they meet standards of potency, purity, uniformity, stability and safety
  • Evaluate labelling, packaging and advertising of drug products

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities

Screening questions

  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

Bonus

Long term benefits

Maternity and parental benefits


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Pharmacist is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Community Pharmacists and Hospital Pharmacists
METHODICAL

Interest in precision working to dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers and other health care professionals, and to ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biological and other drugs and pharmaceuticals; and in ordering and maintaining stock of pharmaceutical supplies

INNOVATIVE

Interest in synthesizing pharmaceutical products; and in advising customers and health care professionals on indications, contra-indications, adverse effects, drugs interactions and dosage

DIRECTIVE

Interest in instructing and advising customers on the selection and use of non-prescription medications; may supervise and co-ordinate the activities of other pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and other staff

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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