Pharmacist

About the role

Save-On-Foods, which operates more than 135 pharmacies across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Yukon, is hiring a full-time pharmacist in its Duncan, BC location. The position runs 32 to 40 hours per week and pays $57.00 to $60.00 per hour.

Key responsibilities

• Check prescriptions for proper dosage.
• Ensure proper preparation, packaging, distribution and storage of vaccines, serums, biologicals and other drugs and pharmaceuticals.
• Dispense prescribed pharmaceuticals to customers or other health care professionals and advise them on indications, contraindications, adverse effects, drug interactions and dosage.
• Advise customers on the selection and use of non-prescription medication.
• Maintain customer medication profiles, including a registry of poisons, narcotics and controlled drugs.
• Compound prescribed pharmaceutical products by calculating, measuring and mixing the required quantities of drugs and other ingredients and filling containers with the correct amounts.

Required profile

• Licensed pharmacist in Canada.

Applicants submit their resume by email to the employer; only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.