Summary Of Duties
We currently have a regular full-time vacancy for a Pharmacist in the Acute Care Pharmacy with patient care responsibilities to the ENT/Urology/General Surgery services, Oncology program.
The pharmacy duties can be broadly divided into three areas:
- Drug distribution
- Direct patient care
- Educational responsibilities
Responsibilities include physician order review; clarification and entry; chemotherapy pharmacist responsibilities; drug dispensing and or supervision of such tasks by pharmacy technicians; answering of drug-related questions; provision of pharmaceutical care; medication reconciliation; participation in multidisciplinary rounds; patient counselling; participation in the education of students and multidisciplinary staff; safety report initiation and follow-up; other duties including participation in on-call activities and hospital and departmental committees.
Qualifications/Skills
- Recent hospital (acute care) pharmacy work experience preferred.
- Current licensure by the Ontario College of Pharmacists
- Previous hospital pharmacy experience and/or hospital pharmacy residency preferred
- Able to work well in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful work environment
- Self-motivated and able to take initiative
- Demonstrated ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Well organized with strong time management skills
- Strong customer service skills
