Join the Pharmacy Technician - Royal Columbian Hospital team at Fraser Health Authority

The salary range for this position is CAD $34.18 - $34.18 / hour

Job Summary
Are you motivated to join a dedicated team of health care providers in this dynamic and rewarding role? Are you interested in a career where you can make an impact on the well-being of others?

Get to know Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services:
We are a collaboration of four premier health employers: Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence, and Vancouver Coastal Health. We provide an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence to patients, residents, and clients. We are committed to investing in your professional development and building an environment where you can advance your career.

Position Highlights:
We currently have an exciting Relief Part Time opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our team at Royal Columbian Hospital located in New Westminster, BC . This relief role is available until October 2026 or until the return of the incumbent.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, here’s why we believe you should apply:

- A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast-growing and exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective fields.
- Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.

Our pharmacy team always aspires to improve and achieve the best possible care for our patients and improve their quality of life.

Responsibilities:

- Processes clinically reviewed and approved medication orders for distribution to a patient, client, or resident.
- Receives prescriptions (verbal and non-verbal)



from practitioners and ensures that prescriptions are complete and authentic by performing duties such as verifying allergy status and/or demographics.
- Prepares and processes prescriptions by performing duties such as entering orders, counting, measuring, packaging, or re-packaging medications, and compounding various sterile pharmaceutical products according to established procedures.
- Ensures the accuracy and completeness of dispensed prescriptions prepared by self or others by verifying order entries and/or performing the final check of dispensed prescriptions.
- Processes prescriptions for temporary inpatient leave of absence by methods such as reviewing, translating, and converting existing inpatient medication orders previously reviewed and approved by a pharmacist.
- Enters and ensures the accuracy and completeness of drug and personal health information in the pharmacy information system.
- Transfers prescriptions to and receives prescriptions from other pharmacies.
- Maintains accurate records such as medication verification and the results of quality assurance checks.
- Distributes medications and maintains relevant inventory, wardstock, and narcotic records.
- Maintains inventory and wardstock levels. Fills wardstock and narcotic requisitions.
- Identifies outdated drugs to be returned or destroyed by checking stock for lot expiry dates.
- Maintains department work areas by ensuring tidiness and order.



Stocks pharmaceuticals, labels, containers, and glassware in accordance with established procedures and standards.
- Performs related clerical duties such as keyboarding, answering telephone, filing, and maintaining medication and prescription records.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
Education and Experience:
Grade 12 and graduation from an accredited Pharmacy Technician program or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Current practicing registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.

Skills And Abilities:

- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to deal with others effectively.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
- Ability to keyboard.
- Ability to organize work.
- Ability to operate related equipment.

About Fraser Health:
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

Fraser Health is committed to planetary health and values diversity in the workforce. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring, and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally secure manner.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Fraser Health is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

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📌 Pharmacy Technician - Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
🏢 Fraser Health Authority
📍 New Westminster