Pharmacy Technician
Your Opportunity:
Are you a passionate, experienced, and driven Pharmacy Technician ready to make a real impact in healthcare? Alberta Health Services is looking for someone like you to join our dedicated team at Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) where your skills, compassion, and commitment will help shape the future of patient care in our community and surrounding areas. You will work to your full scope of practice in a dynamic and supportive environment. From sterile and non-sterile product preparation to final checks and problem-solving, your contributions will be essential to ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care. Your key responsibilities include, drug preparation, repackaging, and final product checks, dispensing individual patient prescriptions and ward stock, supporting clinical care through problem-solving and discrepancy resolution, mentoring new staff and students through training and orientation, collaborating across disciplines to improve outcomes and processes. You will gain a breadth of experience while working with a dedicated, interdisciplinary team. Your strong communication skills both verbal and written alongside your interpersonal strengths, organizational abilities, and computer proficiency, will be vital in this role. Your continued proactive approach while building strong relationships and collaborating with all members of the healthcare team is paramount to the continued success of our team and culture. This is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity to grow, lead, and make a difference every day. The RAH Pharmacy operates 24/7. This position will include overnight shifts. Must be able to withstand long periods of sitting, standing and walking as this role requires daily IV room work and medication prep, dispensing, and packaging for delivery.
Description:
As a Pharmacy Technician I, you will be responsible for the preparation and distribution of pharmaceutical products. You will receive and triage medication orders, compound and repackage medication and prepare sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical products.
- Classification: Pharmacy Technician
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Inpatient Pharmacy
- Primary Location: Royal Alexandra Hospital
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 10-NOV-2025
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Date Available: 01-DEC-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends
- Days Off: Other
- Minimum Salary: $31.13
- Maximum Salary: $38.98
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of a CCAPP-accredited Pharmacy Technician Training Program. Active or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Pharmacy (ACP) as a Pharmacy Technician.
Additional Required Qualifications:As required.
Preferred Qualifications:Membership with a pharmacy professional organization is preferred. Hospital pharmacy and sterile compounding experience is preferred. Experience with Epic Willow is preferred.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
Healthy Albertans. Healthy
Communities. Together.
We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
