Pharmacy Assistant
About the role
Your Opportunity:
Ready to make a difference in healthcare? Join us as a Pharmacy Assistant in Peter Lougheed Centre (PLC), where you'll support pharmacists, healthcare professionals, correctional staff, and external partners in providing essential pharmaceutical care to support safe and effective patient care. Working in a secure environment under the supervision of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician, you’ll help prepare and distribute medications using automated and computerized systems. As a Pharmacy Assistant, your duties include medication preparation, repackaging, administrative and customer service tasks such as answering phones, assisting customers, and data entry. Other responsibilities include accurate stocking of medication carts, receiving Pharmacy Department orders, accurate record keeping, communicating with nursing staff, and delivery of pharmaceuticals throughout the hospital. We are looking for an individual who is a motivated, self-directed team player who thrives both independently and collaboratively. This role involves walking and standing for long periods of time, lifting up to 30 lbs regularly (and occasionally up to 50 lbs), repetitive bending, pushing, pulling, twisting, and carrying. Flexible availability of working including weekdays, evenings, and weekends is required. In a refocused healthcare system, AHS plays an integral role in delivering high-quality acute care services to more than 4.5 million people living in Alberta, as well as occasionally to some residents of other provinces and territories. We are a nation-leading hospital-based service provider operating 106 facilities across the province and we are dedicated to excellence in patient care. Showcase your leadership skills at AHS, where we strive to foster an environment where patients, clients, and staff feel safe, healthy, valued and supported.
Description:
As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will be responsible for the packaging, distributing, shipping medications and the management and replenishment of medication inventory levels under the general supervision of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.
- Classification: Pharmacy Assistant
- Union: AUPE GSS
- Unit and Program: Pharmacy
- Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 08-SEP-2025
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- Date Available: 22-SEP-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 13
- Shifts per cycle: 65
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $22.55
- Maximum Salary: $25.90
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of Grade 12 or equivalent.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Graduate of a recognized pharmacy assistant program and/or a minimum of 1 year hospital experience or 2 years retail experience within the last five years. Required to lift up to 30 lbs. and occasionally 50 lb., push/pull carts, twisting, and repetitive bending. Must be able to stand and walk for long periods at a time. Pharmaceutical deliveries will be required to all areas within the hospitals and correction sites. Flexible availability of working including weekdays, evenings, and weekends is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of the Pharmacy Drug Formulary is an asset. Inpatient hospital pharmacy experience is preferred. Experience using the Epic (Connect Care) system is preferred. Minimum of 1 year of experience handling narcotics. Minimum of 1 year of experience in inventory management. PLC experience is preferred.
About Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.
Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world.
Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.
Pharmacy Assistant
About the role
Your Opportunity:
Ready to make a difference in healthcare? Join us as a Pharmacy Assistant in Peter Lougheed Centre (PLC), where you'll support pharmacists, healthcare professionals, correctional staff, and external partners in providing essential pharmaceutical care to support safe and effective patient care. Working in a secure environment under the supervision of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician, you’ll help prepare and distribute medications using automated and computerized systems. As a Pharmacy Assistant, your duties include medication preparation, repackaging, administrative and customer service tasks such as answering phones, assisting customers, and data entry. Other responsibilities include accurate stocking of medication carts, receiving Pharmacy Department orders, accurate record keeping, communicating with nursing staff, and delivery of pharmaceuticals throughout the hospital. We are looking for an individual who is a motivated, self-directed team player who thrives both independently and collaboratively. This role involves walking and standing for long periods of time, lifting up to 30 lbs regularly (and occasionally up to 50 lbs), repetitive bending, pushing, pulling, twisting, and carrying. Flexible availability of working including weekdays, evenings, and weekends is required. In a refocused healthcare system, AHS plays an integral role in delivering high-quality acute care services to more than 4.5 million people living in Alberta, as well as occasionally to some residents of other provinces and territories. We are a nation-leading hospital-based service provider operating 106 facilities across the province and we are dedicated to excellence in patient care. Showcase your leadership skills at AHS, where we strive to foster an environment where patients, clients, and staff feel safe, healthy, valued and supported.
Description:
As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will be responsible for the packaging, distributing, shipping medications and the management and replenishment of medication inventory levels under the general supervision of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.
- Classification: Pharmacy Assistant
- Union: AUPE GSS
- Unit and Program: Pharmacy
- Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 08-SEP-2025
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- Date Available: 22-SEP-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 13
- Shifts per cycle: 65
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $22.55
- Maximum Salary: $25.90
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of Grade 12 or equivalent.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Graduate of a recognized pharmacy assistant program and/or a minimum of 1 year hospital experience or 2 years retail experience within the last five years. Required to lift up to 30 lbs. and occasionally 50 lb., push/pull carts, twisting, and repetitive bending. Must be able to stand and walk for long periods at a time. Pharmaceutical deliveries will be required to all areas within the hospitals and correction sites. Flexible availability of working including weekdays, evenings, and weekends is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of the Pharmacy Drug Formulary is an asset. Inpatient hospital pharmacy experience is preferred. Experience using the Epic (Connect Care) system is preferred. Minimum of 1 year of experience handling narcotics. Minimum of 1 year of experience in inventory management. PLC experience is preferred.
About Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.
Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world.
Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.