Pharmacist - Langley Memorial Hospital

Fraser Health•Langley, WA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

The Pharmacist provides medication distribution services at Langley Memorial Hospital. Duties include interpreting medication orders and prescriptions, assessing therapeutic suitability, and ensuring medications are accurately dispensed or compounded, labelled, and documented. The Pharmacist communicates with physicians, patients, and other health care team members to clarify prescriptions and resolve problems, and provides guidance on medication use, administration, storage, disposal, and possible side effects. The role also includes clinical pharmacy responsibilities, including helping resolve selected patient drug-related problems, participating in ward rounds or program team meetings, and documenting patient-specific therapeutic plans. The Pharmacist contributes to medication-use evaluation, medication safety and quality-control activities, clinical drug trials, and other departmental initiatives. This is a relief full-time opportunity with Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services at Langley Memorial Hospital in Langley, British Columbia. The relief position is available until April 2027 or until the incumbent returns.

Requirements

Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.
Knowledge of drug distribution processes in a hospital setting.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with health care practitioners, patients, family members, and the public.
Ability to organize and prioritize work.
Ability to operate related equipment.
Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

Responsibilities

Interpret medication orders and prescriptions and dispense medications using a computerized medication information system in accordance with legal, professional, and departmental policies, procedures, and standards.
Assess prescriptions for therapeutic suitability using standardized references, laboratory data, and patient-specific demographics.
Review patient profiles for allergies, potential drug interactions, therapeutic duplications, and contraindications, and withhold medications until safety concerns are resolved.
Communicate with physicians, patients, and other health care team members to clarify prescriptions and resolve problems; document interactions with prescribers.
Provide instructions and drug information about medication use and administration, storage, disposal, and possible side effects.
Obtain medication histories from selected patients, verify allergy information, and assist with medication reconciliation.
Ensure medications are accurately dispensed or compounded and labelled, and complete dispensing records.
Provide medication counselling, allergy assessment, and discharge counselling as appropriate, and document patient interactions in the health care record.
Review patient screening reports or targeted drug lists and identify potential drug-related problems using available laboratory data.
Provide basic pharmacokinetic interpretations for patients receiving targeted drugs such as aminoglycosides, warfarin, and vancomycin.
Collect and document data for medication-use evaluation projects; assist with inventory, shortages, requisitions, expiry-date monitoring, procedural-error reporting, and quality improvement activities.
Participate in dispensary-based medication safety initiatives and quality-control activities.
Maintain records for narcotic and controlled drugs, special access program drugs, and departmental statistics.
Participate in orienting pharmacy students, residents, technicians, assistants, and new staff members, as assigned.
Contribute to internal publications and participate in clinical drug trials by dispensing medications and completing related documentation; review reported adverse drug reactions and complete necessary documentation.
Participate in staff meetings, committees, and other programs; identify process or procedure improvements and refer them to a supervisor or others.
Resolve selected patient drug-related problems in the clinical pharmacist function, participate in ward rounds or program team meetings, and document patient-specific therapeutic plans.
Perform other related duties as assigned.