Original job description
Your Opportunity:
Are you a passionate, driven Pharmacist ready to make a meaningful impact on patient care? Alberta Health Services invites motivated professionals to join our dynamic Home Parenteral Therapy (HPT) Program, where your expertise will make a difference every day. Working collaboratively within an interdisciplinary care team, you will help ensure medications are used safely, effectively, and thoughtfully to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Based out of the Royal Alexandra Hospital, University of Alberta Hospital, and Kaye Edmonton Clinic, you will support the HPT program through daily huddles, clinical collaboration, medication counselling, and comprehensive documentation to ensure seamless, high quality care across care settings. You will play a key role in identifying and resolving medication related issues, offer meaningful patient and family engagement through developing and implementing individualized medication management plans, and continuously optimizing therapy through ongoing assessment and teamwork. Responsibilities include assessing and verifying medication orders and supporting the preparation and verification of parenteral therapies. As the successful candidate, you will demonstrate a commitment to self directed learning and ongoing professional development, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong organizational and problem solving abilities, and the capacity to work independently while thriving in a collaborative team environment. Strong time management, adaptability, and self motivation are essential. You will be a preceptor and mentor to students and residents and other staff.
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.
Classification: Pharmacist I Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH Unit and Program: Home Parental Therapy Program Primary Location: Edmonton Clinic Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.80 Posting End Date: 13-NOV-2026 Temporary Employee Class: Temp P/T Benefits Date Available: 23-NOV-2026 Temporary End Date: 30-NOV-2027 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 2 Shifts per cycle: 8 Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings 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:
Recent direct patient care experience (at least 1 year within the last 3 years) as part of a multidisciplinary team. Additional Prescribing Authorization (APA) is required. To ensure your skills and qualifications are considered, please attach a resume and cover letter with your application.
Preferred Qualifications:
Completion of an accredited hospital residency or post-baccalaureate Pharm D program. Experience within HPT. Experience in an ambulatory clinic setting. Experience with infectious disease management and IV therapy. Experience with Connect Care. Community experience and understanding of drug coverage plans and Kroll.
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Responsibilities
Manage patients’ medication therapy, assess and resolve actual or potential drug-related problems, and support the safe preparation and distribution of pharmaceutical services, including parenteral therapies. Counsel and engage patients and families, document care, collaborate with the interdisciplinary team, and mentor students, residents, and staff.
Requirements
A Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and current, provisional, or transferable registration as a pharmacist with the Alberta College of Pharmacy are required. Candidates must have at least one year of recent direct patient care experience within the past three years as part of a multidisciplinary team, and Additional Prescribing Authorization is required.
Skills
- Medication Therapy Management
- Medication Order Assessment and Verification
- Parenteral Therapy Preparation and Verification
- Patient Counseling
- Medication Management Planning
- Drug-Related Problem Resolution
- Compounding and Packaging
- Clinical Assessment
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Patient and Family Engagement
- Documentation
- Communication
- Organization
- Problem Solving
- Time Management
- Precepting and Mentoring
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Keywords
- Pharmacist
- Home Parenteral Therapy
- Alberta College of Pharmacy
- Additional Prescribing Authorization
- Medication Therapy Management
- Parenteral Therapy
- Medication Counseling
- Medication Order Verification
- Drug-Related Problems
- Compounding
- Packaging
- Patient Care
- Multidisciplinary Team
- Interdisciplinary Care
- Clinical Collaboration
- Medication Management Plans
- Infectious Disease Management
- IV Therapy
- Ambulatory Clinic
- Hospital Residency
- Post-Baccalaureate PharmD
- Connect Care
- Kroll
- Drug Coverage Plans
- Precepting
- Mentoring
