Posted 17 days ago
Registered Pharmacy Technician - CPS
@ Shoppers Drug Mart Inc.
Canada
Overview
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. is hiring a full-time Registered Pharmacy Technician at Central Pharmacy Services in Calgary, Alberta. The role checks prepared medications for accuracy and legal compliance, reconciles narcotic and controlled medications, and supports timely prescription delivery. The posting states competitive hourly pay of $26.75 to $34.65, a 30% employee discount and customizable benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Check prepared medications for accuracy and legal compliance
- Correct errors when identified
- Count and reconcile narcotic and controlled medications
- Keep prescription checking organized so delivery routes leave on schedule
- Protect patient privacy and confidentiality
Requirements summary:
- Registered Pharmacy Technician in good standing with the College of Pharmacists
- Liability insurance to practise as an RPhT
- Minimum 1 year continuous pharmacy experience (long term care, hospital or retail)
- Experience in high volume filling environments preferred
- Experience with PacMed or PacVision is an asset
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · workday
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-20
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-11
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-07
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Pharmacy |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Laboratory, Plant or factory |
| Position | Mostly standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPhT), Liability insurance |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Employee discount |
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Shoppers Drug Mart Inc.
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Referred applicants must not apply directly to this role. All referred applicants must use their unique referral link generated when they are referred by an existing colleague.
Location:
116-10725 25 Street NE, Calgary, Alberta, T3N 0A4Looking for a career that offers a peaceful and high-tech work environment? Look no further than Central Pharmacy Services, - where tranquility and innovation go hand in hand. Our workplace is not only pristine, contemporary, and driven by technology where you can enjoy stable fixed shifts and a predictable schedule, that brings balance to your work-life.
At Central Pharmacy Services, we are the catalyst for the Future of Pharmacy. Shoppers Drug Mart is undergoing an unprecedented transformation that will revolutionize healthcare across Canada, and our CPS team is right at the heart of this remarkable change! We are committed to creating most streamlined and versatile central fill network in the country – let’s bring this vision to life together!
Why join us at Central Services?
Central Pharmacy Services is a division of Loblaw/Shoppers Drug Mart that centrally fills prescriptions for patients and provides other prescription processing services. By streamlining these crucial functions, we enable Pharmacists and their teams at Shoppers Drug Mart locations to focus on what is important – the patient! We pride ourselves on having a great team spirit.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive Pay
- Great Benefits that are highly customizable and include a vacation purchase option
- Employee Discount of 30% on in store purchases
Why this role is important?
A Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPhT) plays a critical role in CPS operations by ensuring accurate, safe, and efficient prescription processing while performing regulated technical responsibilities that allow Pharmacists to focus on clinical care. RPhTs are essential to patient safety, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and prescription turnaround times. Their specialized expertise directly supports CPS’s ability to scale operations, manage increasing prescription volumes, reduce workflow bottlenecks, and maintain consistent service delivery across sites.
What you'll do:
- Responsible for ensuring accuracy of prepared medication by checking each prescription and ensuring legal compliance and product quality. This includes weekly strip packaged medications, compliance packages and all non-packaged products
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate corrections are completed when identified
- Accurately count and reconcile Narcotic and Controlled medications
- Responsible for checking products in an organized and efficient manner to maintain workflow and ensure delivery routes leave at their scheduled times
- Patient privacy and confidentiality is protected in accordance with regulations
- Keep current with and align with legal requirements, professional standards, and where provided, workplace policies and procedures
- Commitment to promoting a workplace of inclusiveness and belonging
What you bring:
- Licensed and registered with the College of Pharmacists as Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPhT), in good standing
- Liability insurance to legally practice as a RPhT
- A minimum of 1 year of continuous working experience in a pharmacy environment (Long Term Care, Hospital, or Retail)
- Experience with high volume filling environments is preferred
- Experience working with PacMed or PacVision is an asset
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
- Attention to detail
- Complete work with minimal supervision
- Teammate and Leadership skills
- Bilingual (English/French) is an asset
Employment Type:
Full timeType of Role:
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Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :$26.75 - $34.65 / 26,75$ - 34,65$ (per hour / de l’heure)A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.#EN
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