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What you'll do
- Prepare, dispense and control medications accurately and timely to patients
- Ensure medication and over the counter supplements inventory levels is adequate to meet patients' needs
- Counsel of patients in regards to new and additional medications in a friendly, positive and pro-active interaction
- Create awareness and educate customers through public relations (public health days, clinics, etc.)
- Provide timely and positive resolution to patient's needs and Doctor's requests/issues
- Provide on-going training for all new and existing Pharmacy colleagues (technicians, interns, students, IPG's)
What you'll need:
- Bachelor of Science, Pharmacy and a Class A Pharmacists license a must
- Superior customer relations skills and a strong sense of professionalism
- Excellent leadership and performance management skills required
- Proven ability to build the business using community based marketing strategies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem solving skills including the experience formulating and executing action plans
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
Additional Skills
- Supervise personnel
- Order and maintain stock
- Hire and train personnel
Specific Skills
- Advise customers on selection and use of non-prescription medication
- Advise on the administration, uses and effects of the medication, drug incompatibilities and contra-indications
- Test new drug products
- Maintain medication profiles of customers
- Formulate new drug products developed by medical researchers
- Evaluate labelling, packaging and advertising of drug products
- Ensure proper storage of pharmaceutical products
- Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals
- Develop informational materials concerning the uses and properties of particular drugs
- Control the quality of drug products during production
- Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products
- Co-ordinate clinical investigations of new drugs
- Check prescriptions for proper dosage
Area Of Specialization
- Community or retail pharmacy