Posting # 54851 - [ UNIFOR ]

St. Joseph's Health Care London's Pharmacy Department provides care across all St. Joseph's sites: St. Joseph's Hospital, Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care, Parkwood Institute Main Building and Finch Family Mental Health Care Building, and Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health. The Pharmacy Department also provides care directly to members of our community through the two Prescription Shop pharmacies located at St. Joseph's Hospital and the Finch Family Mental Health Care Building at Parkwood. The Pharmacy Department welcomes learners year-round, including pharmacy technician students, pharmacist students, and a pharmacy resident.

Pharmacy Services is currently seeking skilled and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technicians to join our team. The successful candidate will be required to work at all sites. This offers an excellent opportunity to provide a broad range of pharmacy care across different clinical settings.

The Pharmacy Technician is a key individual in the medication distribution system. The successful candidate will display excellent organizational and communication skills while collaborating with pharmacists and other health care professionals to provide outstanding service, exceptional patient care, and ensure safe and effective medication management at all times.

Responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician may include but are not limited to preparing sterile and non-sterile extemporaneous products, inventory control, packaging, supply and delivery of medications, liaising with nursing staff on the patient care units, education and training, as well as obtaining Best Possible Medication Histories (BPMH).

It is understood that the hours of work reflect the current scheduling arrangements and are subject to change as determined by the Employer.



Essential Qualifications

• Registered with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) as a Registered Pharmacy Technician
• Knowledge of a Safety Culture in a Health Care Setting in compliance with the OHSA
• Strong mathematical skills to accurately prepare, compound, and dispense medications
• Recent hospital or retail experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to work independently as well as on a team
• Self-directed
• Health and physical condition consistent with heavy lifting, pushing, bending, walking, sitting, standing, and keyboarding

• Proficiency in French would be an asset
• Minimum two (2) years recent hospital pharmacy experience
• Previous computer experience, particularly with Cerner/Pharmnet pharmacy system
• Prior experience collecting and documenting Best Possible Medication Histories (BPMH)

• St. Joseph's Health Care London through its affiliation with Western University and Fanshawe College is a leading research and teaching hospital. As an employee of St. Joseph's, you will be expected to engage in role-related teaching and research activities in addition to any of your clinical duties.

• Provide vaccination records or proof of immunity against measles, mumps rubella, varicella (chicken pox), Hepatitis B, COVID-19 and influenza.
• Provide documentation of the Tuberculosis skin testing