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Wellness Pharmacy

This company does have advantages where you may be exposed to a variety of opportunities and different type of works. They are keen on trying new technologies and business models involving patient care, and there are opportunities to do more collaborative clinical work compared to regular community pharmacies. The support from the management is actually tangible, which is more than what I can say for many other chains.

However, these come with strings attached to them. They apparently do not consider the location into account when discussing hourly wages and the annual raise is marginal. The starting wage is below market average despite the claim and you can easily find other pharmacies with better wage. They are also becoming more corporate by the year and more tasks with metrics are introduced one by one. The aforementioned opportunities come with high level of stress and erratic hours where you may be expected to work outside of the official business hours for the pharmacy to run batches and such. And staff turnover rate seems a little high, both from observation and the number of job postings here on Indeed. Even their operations management position seem to change relatively frequently. The worst past is that they were trying hard to sugarcoat it for a while. Ironically, many people in management at that time left the company shortly after.

Floating around is a mixed bag. There is some standardization between the pharmacies, but many of them are unique and also have specific protocols on top. You get your hourly wage whether you go to North Vancouver or Surrey. 

Overall, this is not a bad company to learn from, but they have become very corporate over the years and I don't see that trend shifting. 

I have been with Wellness pharmacy for over 2 years now. It was my first job ever and I plan to stay with them as long as possible. Although I work other places, I can make it work  since they are really flexible with your schedule and have a lot of opportunities such as part-time, full-time, mornings and evening shifts. The staff is great, and supportive. The job is not stressful at all and have full time hours, unlike other pharmacies. I love going to work, since I am usually working independently but have full support from my managers. Recently they have increased their wage for nurses, which is also a positive for this company! If you are looking for a job as a new nurse, this is a good starting point for building your hours, and if you enjoy it like me, you might even stay with the company long term! :)


I enjoyed working for Wellness pharmacy in the past 6 years.  The owner is very supportive and kind.  The management team will help out each time when there is any new idea rolls out.  The company always strives for innovative ideas for best patient's care.

Pros
-Very good support from owner and head office
-Owner treated staff as family members
-Staff is encouraged to do continuing education and is well supported
-At the beginning of the pandemic, owner took care of the safety of the staff and provided each staff face shield and implemented plexiglass and UVC devices
-Staff performance is appreciated and recognized by the company
-Company continues to introduce innovative things for the patients (e.g. smart blister packs, auto refills) for utmost patient's care

I had a professional interview which led to a trial of 6 hours without pay.  Just for those who do not know (nor did I know until much later), a trial run is no more than 1.5 hour of shadowing and meeting the staff. I ended up spending $30 for parking.  I was completely ignored by the head pharmacist of the day and was not shown the layout of the dispensary. I wittnessed the head pharmacist yell at everyone about not reading nor replying to the emails. Really?  Luckily, there were no patients in the pharmacy. The team itself were apologetic and respectful. The management needs to be trained of how to communicate than yell. It was an abusive environment.

The team's members working collaboratively and help each others. Head office members and maneger have good attitude and ethics . There are right amount of training in order to be successful and work with confident.Pharmacists are professional and helpful.You have your schedule 2 month in advance and can manage your work with your life. They have  focus on health and safety of employees strongly. 

At the central fill location, expect to start at 6:30AM. They have evening shifts that go until 7 PM or so as well. I learned a lot about pharmacy business (daily dispense rules, etc). Management was terrible. They definitely had favourites and would pick on others. Also experienced bizarre comments and behaviour. Culture was nice. Everyone worked well together. Hardest part of the job was management. Most enjoyable was working with other pharmacists. 

As one would expect in any role, there are challenging days but the organization is open to feedback and works with you. The structure is flat so you feel comfortable speaking with the leadership team openly. There is a great team of people that work well together. They also take the COVID-19 safety very seriously so it feels good to be a part of the team.  

There's always an expectation to deliver from management, but it's fair and the team is supportive and collaborative to attain goals together. Great team environment and colleagues to lean on. 
There are many opportunities to make the job interesting and rewarding, it's what you make of it. Good job for new grads to develop experience or a veteran pharmacist looking for a change in practice. 

It seems unfair that only pharmacists and pharmacy technicians get benefits but not pharmacy assistants. Not all assistants are treated the same. You really cant move up.
Assistants are preferred not to type rx, so no room to learn, very repetetive-mostly packing-/ lack of communication between management and employees/ overwork staff

Great company to work for. The head office is super accommodating to nurses needs as they are very flexible with working around availability. Everybody is welcoming and work in a collaborative environment. Great job to have on the side if you already have a fulltime job. Always hiring, so most likely to get the job! 

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