In a family health setting, medication expertise extends beyond individual encounters, informing how a team approaches care while long-term patient journeys shape your impact. As a Pharmacist, Family Medicine at the Sherman Health and Wellness Centre, you will deliver comprehensive patient care while serving as a trusted medication expert for the broader team. The role offers meaningful clinical scope that includes exposure to specialized areas such as seniors, diabetes, menopause care, and chronic pain. This team brings physicians, nurses, social workers, and specialized providers together under one roof, giving your recommendations the context and collaboration to excel. This is a role where your clinical expertise finds both immediate application and long-term professional reward.
Is this you?
Genuine resourcefulness is what allows you to thrive across the various aspects of a family medicine practice. Whether reconciling a complex medication history or supporting deprescribing for an older adult on a high-risk regimen, you bring initiative and thoroughness to every task, from the straightforward to the clinically complex. In a role this broad, that quality is what defines an impactful pharmacist.
A comprehensive understanding of pharmacology and therapeutics equips you to deliver safe, effective drug therapy across various cases. You draw on this knowledge to identify medication-related risks and recommend tailored adjustments that align with each patient's unique needs. Strong analytical skills allow you to evaluate clinical data, anticipate potential complications, and solve problems before they escalate. This precision ensures medications are optimized and patients receive the benefit of your informed judgment.
Your ability to communicate with both clinical precision and genuine empathy allows patients and colleagues to act on medication guidance with greater clarity and confidence. Whether counselling a patient on a therapy change, reinforcing safe medication use, or answering a prescribing question from a colleague, you know how to make complex information practical and easy to use. That same strength shapes how you support medical learners, pharmacy students, and other trainees, giving them guidance that is clear, thoughtful, and rooted in sound clinical judgment.
About This Team
The Mount Sinai Academic Family Health Team delivers comprehensive patient-centered primary care throughout every stage of life. Our goal is to help patients manage their health and enhance their overall quality of life. We do this by offering primary health care and several specialty and group programs. We have locations in Toronto at the Granovsky Gluskin Family Medicine Centre and in Vaughan at the Sherman Health and Wellness Centre. Family health teams bring several primary care providers into one care team. Working as a team means we can act as a primary point of care for patients and provide access to specialized supports in one location.
The team consists of physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and other specialized health-care providers. We have a special interest in perinatal care and the care of babies and children. Our services also include programs for diabetes management, mental health, nutrition, smoking cessation and geriatric care.
As a teaching clinic, we work closely with the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine to train medical students and resident doctors to provide the highest level of care. Our team values education, research and collaborative patient care.
In This Role You Will
- Provide comprehensive medication management, including medication reconciliation, best possible medication histories, and medication reviews
- Manage and optimize pharmacotherapy for patients with complex care needs, including polypharmacy, multimorbidity, and chronic disease management
- Monitor medication therapy for effectiveness, safety, adherence, and drug interactions, including targeted therapeutic monitoring (e.g., anticoagulation therapy such as INR management), providing evidence based recommendations to optimize outcomes
- Support patient education and counselling to promote informed medication use and self-management, including counselling on preventive therapies such as immunizations based on age and clinical risk factors
- Support and contribute to the Diabetes Education Program, including medication optimization and patient education, with openness to pursuing Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) designation
- Support deprescribing initiatives, particularly for older adults and patients at risk due to polypharmacy
- Contribute to safe opioid prescribing practices, including guideline implementation, opioid therapy review, and supporting updates to clinical communication and best practices
- Provide expert drug information and therapeutic recommendations to clinicians
- Support medication management processes within the Family Health Team, ensuring medication ordering practices and on site workflows align with best practices, safety standards, and regulatory requirements
- Liaise with the Sinai Health Pharmacy Department as required to support alignment with institutional standards, policies, formulary guidance, and pharmacy expertise
- Contribute to quality improvement initiatives focused on medication safety, prescribing optimization, and chronic disease outcomes
- Assist in the development and maintenance of clinical pathways, protocols, and prescribing guidelines
- Participate in education of medical learners, pharmacy students, and other health professional trainees
- Contribute to Family Health Team committees, working groups, and strategic initiatives
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation in the electronic medical record
- Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required
Job Requirements
Mandatory
- Successful completion of a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from an accredited educational institution
- Active (or eligible for) registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP)
Preferred
- Residency training or ambulatory care pharmacy an asset
- 3 years of experience in pharmacy
- Applicants with proven equivalent and related training and experience may also be considered
- Experience working in primary care or Family Health Team settings in Ontario
- Experience in chronic disease management, geriatrics, mental health pharmacotherapy, or women’s health
- Interest in diabetes care and chronic disease management, with a desire to explore opportunities for professional development including pursuit of Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) designation
Skills and Knowledge
- Demonstrated, excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance record
- Demonstrated engagement in quality improvement and system level practice improvement
- Proficiency with electronic medical records and clinical documentation systems
If this sounds like you and you feel ready to build your pharmacy career within family health, apply now and let us know why you’d be a great addition to our team.
