
Sr. Specialty Pharmacist (12-month contract)
- Surrey
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Filling, verifying, and dispensing medications accurately.
- Provide supervision and oversight for pharmacy caseworkers, assistants, technicians, and other staff.
- Provide appropriate pharmacist services, including patient counseling and follow-up for dispensed prescriptions as required.
- Ensure prescription pricing is accurate and payment methods have been established.
- Ensure prescriptions are delivered to the appropriate site as per patient request, regulation and cold chain required.
- Providing general customer service for clients and stakeholders (i.e., Patients, Health Care Professionals, Industry Partners, etc.)
- Adapting, renewing, and initiating prescriptions as per the Provincial College’s rules and regulations working to full scope of practice as outlined by regulatory body.
- Provide medical information as required to patients and other healthcare professionals.
- Adherence to all relevant guidelines including the established Standard Operating Procedures and all applicable regulatory requirements.
- Submitting Adverse Events (AE) and Product Quality Complaints (PQC)
- Flexibility in working overlapping shifts during operating pharmacy hours.
- Oversees staff to ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing pharmacy.
- Operate and promote behaviors that uphold McKesson i2Care and iLead Principles in alignment with McKesson Code of Conduct.
- Ensure company policies and regulatory standards are at the foremost of all activities and decisions.
- Adhere to privacy requirements
- Monitor accounts receivable
- Temperature monitoring
- Complete all required training
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor or Doctor of Pharmacy Degree
- A valid license in good standing with the applicable College of Pharmacists.
- Professional Liability Insurance
- Working knowledge of retail pharmacy practice
- Understanding of biologics and specialty medications
- This position requires a significant degree of self-direction and independence.
- Possess strong working knowledge of Kroll and its capabilities.
- Clinical expertise in major therapeutic areas required by Specialty Pharmacy Services
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Accountable and results-oriented
- MS office
- Full-time employment for at least one year in a hospital or retail pharmacy setting.
- Bilingualism (English/French) an asset or Multilingual
- Additional experience in clinical trials, medication reimbursement, or a regulatory environment is useful.
- Communication: PSP, Navigation, INVIVA clinics, Medical Clinics, Pharmacy, Patients and drug plans
- Direct Reports: N/A
- Ability to identify and tackle various drug therapy problems in a specialty pharmacy setting, in-depth knowledge of various types of specialty medications
- Team management
- Unique medications and patient needs
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Interpersonal skills
- Active listening
- Teaching
- Patient advocacy
- Decision making
- Collaboration
- Working with various cross functional teams both internal and external