Pharmacist in Toronto

Compensation: CAD 48.51 - CAD 60.64 - hourly

Company Description: UHN is Canada’s No. 1 hospital and the world’s No. 1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, UHN has made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.

Position Summary: In this position, the Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmacy services to ambulatory chemotherapy/systemic therapy patients and provides centralized pharmacy services to inpatients within the PM Cancer Centre Program. You will be expected to facilitate and support clinical teaching and research activities within the department, while exemplifying UHN's values of caring, excellence, teamwork, innovation, integrity, leadership, and respect.

Duties:

• Review, verify, and dispense all ambulatory standard-of-care and clinical trials oncology medication orders for appropriateness
• Identify, resolve and prevent real or potential drug related problems
• Monitor drug therapy for effectiveness, toxicity and adherence to evidence based medicine/guidelines
• Conduct medication reconciliation or patient counselling on a consult/referral basis
• Follow up on medication incidents and promote safe medication practices on the unit
• Respond to drug information questions
• Be active in pharmacy student preceptorship with the undergraduate pharmacy programs, as well as providing mentorship and preceptorship for the pharmacy residency program at UHN
• Providing direct and/or functional supervision of technician staff
• Performing other duties consistent with job classification, as required

Qualifications:

• Completion of university degree (Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Pharmacy) or PharmD, or equivalent required
• Certificate of competency from the Pharmacy Examination Board of Canada required
• Active registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (Part A) required
• Hospital pharmacy practice experience in oncology preferred
• Hospital pharmacy residency an asset
• Clinical experience with patient-centered care in oncology would be an asset
• Membership in the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists an asset
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills

Additional Information: Why join UHN? In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. Competitive offer packages, government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service, a flexible work environment, opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization, and additional perks including multiple corporate discounts.

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration. UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates. Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of any application if any information provided by a candidate is misleading, inaccurate or incorrect. UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.