Pharmacy Technician - BC Cancer - Vancouver

Pharmacy Technician

BC Cancer

Vancouver, BC

Work with BC Cancer’s pharmacy team and receive on-the-job training to specialize your skills. No previous oncology experience is needed. We provide inhouse training for areas such as sterile compounding, OPD and Chemo IV Clinical Trials, Drug Access Navigator – you’ll have opportunities for specialty pharmacy roles including Pharmacy Technician Supervisor, Clinical Trial Technician, and Omni Cell Technician.

You’ll work to your full scope of practice with a friendly group of professionals in a small-scale hospital setting. Additionally, the BC Cancer pharmacy environment provides direct patient contact through the outpatient dispensary, for a full continuity of care experience.

What You’ll Do

• Process clinically reviewed and approved medication orders for distribution to a patient.
• Receive prescriptions (verbal and non-verbal) from practitioners and ensures that prescriptions are complete and authentic by performing duties such as verifying allergy status and/or demographics.
• Prepare and process prescriptions by performing duties such as entering orders, counting, measuring, packaging or re-packaging medications and compounding various sterile pharmaceutical products, including hazardous drugs, according to established procedures. Pre-package oral, liquid and topical medications into unit-of-use format.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of dispensed prescriptions prepared by self or others by verifying order entries, and/or performing the final check of dispensed prescriptions.
• Enter and ensure the accuracy and completeness of drug and personal health information in the pharmacy information system.

Qualifications

• Current registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts.
• Knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within BC Cancer contexts.

Core Competencies

• Brings an understanding of the Indigenous specific racism and the broader systemic racism that exists in the colonial health care structure.
• Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples.

What We Bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future.

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Wage: $34.18 per hour

Location: 600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, V5Z 4E6

Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

Hours of Work: Monday - Friday; Rotating; 07:00, 08:00, 08:30, 09:00, 09:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00

Requisition Number: 171272E

What We Do

BC Cancer provides comprehensive cancer control for the people of British Columbia. BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services

PHSA and BC Cancer are committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply.