Senior Compounding Pharmacist - Non-Sterile Compounding

Location: Calgary, Alberta
Company: Mint Health + Drugs
Employment Type: Full-Time

We're looking for an experienced Senior Compounding Pharmacist who is passionate about personalized medicine and excited by the opportunity to help us take an established compounding service to the next level.

You'll have the opportunity to use your compounding expertise, develop formulations, collaborate directly with healthcare professionals, mentor a specialized pharmacy team and help shape the future of Mint's compounding program.

If you're an experienced pharmacist who enjoys solving complex medication challenges and wants the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on both patient care and the growth of a specialized pharmacy service, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do

Provide Specialized Compounding Care

You'll be a key clinical and technical resource for Mint's non-sterile compounding program.

Your work will include:

• Reviewing and assessing compounded prescriptions for clinical appropriateness, compatibility, stability and patient-specific considerations
• Performing and verifying pharmaceutical calculations
• Preparing or overseeing customized compounded medications
• Reviewing formulations, ingredients, concentrations, beyond-use dates and finished preparations
• Investigating formulation options for unique or complex prescriptions
• Providing patient counselling and follow-up when appropriate
• Ensuring accurate documentation and compliance with applicable compounding standards

Our compounding services may include:

• Customized capsules and oral preparations
• Dermatological creams, ointments, lotions and gels
• Pain-management preparations
• Bio-identical hormone preparations
• Pediatric formulations
• Customized strengths and dosage forms
• Preservative-free, dye-free, alcohol-free or other patient-specific formulations where clinically appropriate
• Medications that are commercially unavailable or discontinued

Be a Trusted Resource for Healthcare Professionals

Great compounding starts with great collaboration.

You'll work directly with physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, clinics and other healthcare professionals to help identify individualized medication solutions for their patients.

You'll:

• Provide guidance regarding formulation options, dosage forms and strengths
• Collaborate with prescribers on complex or customized prescriptions
• Build strong professional relationships with healthcare providers
• Educate healthcare professionals about Mint's compounding capabilities
• Support community pharmacies that may not have the equipment, capacity or expertise to compound medications themselves
• Become a trusted compounding resource for pharmacists throughout the Mint network

Help Us Grow

We're looking for someone who doesn't just want to work in a compounding department - we're looking for someone excited to help us build one of the strongest compounding programs we can.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Help expand awareness of Mint's compounding services
• Develop relationships with prescribers, clinics, allied healthcare professionals and community pharmacies
• Identify new referral and partnership opportunities
• Recognize underserved patient needs where personalized compounding could make a difference
• Help improve turnaround times, workflow and capacity
• Recommend equipment, technology or process improvements
• Contribute ideas about new formulations and services
• Help determine where investment could allow the department to safely accept more patients and prescriptions
• Provide expertise in streamlining compounding operations
• Development of compounding practice tools for daily use, training and development

You'll work alongside pharmacy and operational leadership, so you won't be expected to build the program alone.

Quality & Patient Safety

Quality is at the centre of everything we do.

You'll help ensure Mint's compounding program maintains strong standards for:

• Master formulation and compounding records
• Ingredient and preparation traceability
• Beyond-use dates
• Storage requirements
• Equipment maintenance and calibration
• Cleaning and environmental requirements
• Quality control
• Medication incident and near-miss review
• Continuous quality improvement
• Inventory, ingredient expiry and waste management
• Standard operating procedures

You'll also help train and mentor pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, assistants and students involved in compounding.

What We're Looking For

Required

• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from a recognized institution
• Current registration and practice permit with the Alberta College of Pharmacy
• Authorization to practice without restrictions relevant to this role
• Strong pharmaceutical calculation skills
• Strong understanding of medication safety and quality assurance
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong clinical judgment and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team

Compounding Experience

We're particularly interested in pharmacists with hands-on non-sterile compounding experience.

Experience with one or more of the following would be a strong asset:

• Complex non-sterile compounding
• Dermatological preparations
• Bio-identical hormone compounding
• Customized capsules and oral formulations
• Pediatric formulations
• Pain-management preparations
• Master formulation records
• Compounding SOPs
• Compounding quality assurance
• Training or mentoring pharmacy teams

Formal compounding education or certification is considered an asset.

Previous experience building relationships with prescribers, clinics or other healthcare professionals is also an asset - but we're equally interested in an excellent compounding pharmacist who is excited to develop this skill.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Health and dental benefits

• Life insurance, long-term disability and AD&D
• Health spending account
• RRSP matching
• Paid vacation and personal days
• Education allowance and professional development opportunities
• Employee discounts
• Supportive pharmacy and operational leadership
• Opportunities for continued professional and career growth
• The opportunity to help shape and grow Mint's compounding program

Interested?

If you're an experienced pharmacist who loves the technical side of compounding, enjoys solving medication challenges and wants the opportunity to help grow a specialized pharmacy service, we'd like to hear from you.

Join Mint Health + Drugs and help us expand what's possible through personalized pharmacy care.