Pharmacist in Vancouver

Are you motivated to join a dedicated team of health care providers in this dynamic and rewarding role? Are you interested in a career where you can make an impact on the well-being of others?

Get to know Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services. We are a collaboration of four premier health employers: Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence, and Vancouver Coastal Health, providing an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence.

We currently have an exciting Relief Full Time opportunity for a Pharmacist to join our team at Cross Town Clinic located in Vancouver/Richmond, BC. This relief role is available until February 2027 or until return of incumbent.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, here’s why we believe you should apply:

• A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast-growing and exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective fields.
• Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
• We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand the ability to deliver prompt and professional service.
• We aim to build an environment where you love the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you.

Detailed Overview:

The Pharmacist provides distribution pharmacy services by performing duties such as interpreting medication orders/prescriptions, assessing prescriptions for therapeutic suitability, and ensuring that medications are efficiently and accurately dispensed and/or compounded and labelled.

Responsibilities include:

• Interpreting medication orders/prescriptions and dispensing medications using a computerized medication information system in accordance with legal, professional, and departmental policies, procedures, and standards.
• Assessing prescriptions for therapeutic suitability by referring to standardized references, interpreting laboratory data, and reviewing patient-specific demographics.
• Reviewing patient profiles for any allergies, potential drug interactions, therapeutic duplications, or contraindications.
• Communicating with physicians, patients, and/or other health care team members for prescription clarification and problem resolution.
• Providing instructions to others on proper use/administration, storage and/or disposal, and possible side effects of prescribed and self-selected medications.
• Participating in obtaining medication history from select patients and verifying allergy information.
• Ensuring that medications are efficiently and accurately dispensed and/or compounded and labelled.
• Providing medication counselling regarding drug therapy to patients and/or their families.
• Participating in the collection of data for medication use evaluation projects.
• Maintaining records for narcotic and controlled drugs, special access program drugs, and departmental statistics.
• Participating in the orientation of pharmacy students, residents, technicians, assistants, and new staff members.
• Contributing to internal publications and participating in clinical drug trials.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and/or procedures.

Qualifications:

• Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.
• Knowledge of drug distribution processes in a hospital setting.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other health care practitioners, patients, family members, and the public.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

About Fraser Health:

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff, and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring, and trust. Together, we are the heart of health care.