Original job description
Your Opportunity:
Are you a motivated and dedicated Pharmacist interested in making a meaningful impact in patient care? Cancer Care is seeking a skilled professional to join our pharmacy team at the Cross Cancer Institute. In this role, you will work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary healthcare team to promote the safe, effective, and appropriate use of medications. You will assess patients for medication related issues, contribute to comprehensive medication management plans, and help optimize therapeutic outcomes. This hospital-based position includes participation in patient care rounds, close collaboration with clinical teams, and engagement with patients and families to individualize therapy. Responsibilities include reviewing and verifying medication orders and may also involve checking prepared products such as oral, parenteral, chemotherapeutic, and topical medications. You may assist with special access or investigational drug therapies and support pharmacy operations through mentorship of new staff, precepting students, and providing guidance to Pharmacy Assistants and Technicians.
Description:
As a Pharmacist I, you will be responsible for the safe, effective and efficient preparation and distribution of pharmaceutical services. You will manage medication therapy for patients, both initially and on an ongoing basis. In addition, you will provide assessment, intervention and resolution of potential or actual drug-related problems and oversee activities related to compounding and packaging.
Transition Company: Cancer Care Alberta Classification: Pharmacist I Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH Unit and Program: CCI pharmacy Primary Location: Cross Cancer Institute Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Multisite FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 09-NOV-2026 Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits Date Available: 19-NOV-2026 Temporary End Date: 26-NOV-2027 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 2 Shifts per cycle: 10 Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends Days Off: As Per Rotation Minimum Salary: $59.76 Maximum Salary: $68.71 Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. Current, provisional or transferable registration with the Alberta College of Pharmacy (ACP) as a Pharmacist.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Entry-to-practice degree (Bachelor of Science or PharmD) in Pharmacy. To ensure your skills and qualifications are considered please attach a resume and cover letter with your application. Minimum of 1 Year Oncology experience, preferentially at a tertiary center.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience within a specific clinical area, precepting students, membership in a professional hospital pharmacy organization, and participation in projects, research or committee work is an asset.
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Responsibilities
Manage patients’ medication therapy and assess, intervene in, and resolve potential or actual drug-related problems. Review and verify medication orders, oversee compounding and packaging, support patient care teams, and contribute to pharmacy operations through mentorship and student precepting.
Requirements
Requires an entry-to-practice pharmacy degree and current, provisional, or transferable registration with the Alberta College of Pharmacy. At least one year of oncology experience is required, preferably at a tertiary center; clinical-area experience, student precepting, professional organization membership, and project or research participation are assets.
Skills
- Medication Therapy Management
- Medication Order Review and Verification
- Medication Safety
- Patient Assessment
- Drug-Related Problem Resolution
- Oncology Pharmacy
- Compounding and Packaging
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Patient and Family Engagement
- Therapeutic Optimization
- Investigational Drug Therapy
- Precepting and Mentorship
- Pharmaceutical Preparation and Distribution
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Keywords
- Pharmacist
- Cancer Care
- Oncology
- Cross Cancer Institute
- Alberta College of Pharmacy
- Medication Therapy Management
- Medication Safety
- Medication Orders
- Drug-Related Problems
- Compounding
- Packaging
- Oral Medications
- Parenteral Medications
- Chemotherapeutic Medications
- Topical Medications
- Investigational Drug Therapies
- Special Access Therapies
- Patient Care Rounds
- Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team
- Clinical Pharmacy
- Therapeutic Outcomes
- Precepting
- Mentorship
- Pharmacy Assistants
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Research
- Committee Work
