The above Salary Range is our Hiring Range which is commensurate with experience
Employment Status: Permanent
Type of Position: Backfill
Location: Hybrid
Number of Vacancies: 1
Position Summary
The Registration Advisor is responsible for applying registration-related legislation, regulations, and policy to the development and delivery of entry-to-practice assessment models, workshops, materials, publications and presentations to ensure that pharmacist applicants and pharmacy technician applicants have transparent, objective, impartial and fair opportunities to demonstrate that they have met the OCP registration requirements.
What you’ll do at OCP
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Review practice-based assessments completed by assessors to ensure documentation provides evidence of readiness for final registration
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Determine whether practice assessment registration requirement has been successfully completed
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Guide candidates who are unsuccessful at meeting OCP-administered assessment-related registration requirements through their development processes
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Respond to registration-related questions from a variety of partners with respect to entry-to-practice competencies, legislation, regulations, and policies
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Update entry-to-practice assessment model materials, communications and technology to ensure that they reflect current practice and assessment processes
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Update and deliver assessor workshops and/or training to ensure that assessors have the knowledge and skills to assess their candidate’s competency within their appropriate scope of practice
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Liaise with educational programs to support currency of curriculum content as it related to registration- related legislation
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Manage Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Professionalism (JEP) exam development and maintenance by recruiting, training, evaluating, coordinating, and supporting JEP external groups
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Oversee training and use of technology platform for exam item development by JEP external groups
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Analyze current needs for JEP assessment for the purposes of directing and supporting the development of new exam items. Revise and finalize all exam items with the JEP external groups while ensuring that the exam is fair, valid and consistent with the established blueprint
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Oversee JEP exam question banks and review and approve JEP exams, in both French and English
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Assess preliminary findings from each JEP exam offering after completion, including a statistical exam performance report from a psychometrician, to make decisions about exam questions that may impact scores before exam results are finalized and communicated
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Support the development and maintenance of learning modules, in collaboration with staff members from other teams. Assess requests for testing accommodations and provide required materials for accommodations, if needed
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Research, prepare and deliver registration-related presentations to applicants and external partners
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Support registrants moving from Part B to Part A of the College’s register
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Review and apply registration-related policies to applicants, in conjunction with the registration regulations
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Assume responsibility for projects as required or assigned
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In consultation with the communications team, draft and update registration and entry-to-practice related website content, as assigned
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Continually examine work processes and explore opportunities for improving efficiencies through technology, elimination or altering of work processes and make recommendations to the Lead.
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Other reasonable duties as assigned by the Lead
What we’re looking for
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Minimum 3 years practice experience in a patient care practice setting
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Must have 2 years of related experience in a non-patient care practice setting (e.g., pharmacy education, pharmacy operations)
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Experience working in collaboration with pharmacy professionals in an education or patient care practice setting
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Fluency in French would be considered an asset
What experience we prefer
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Active registration in Ontario as a pharmacy professional plus member in good standing with the College
Why work for us?
We are the registering and regulating body for the profession of pharmacy practice in Ontario with a mandate to serve and protect the public interest. In addition to ascertaining all registrants meet professional standards, the College sets and ensures ongoing adherence to professional and operational standards as it leads the advancement of pharmacy.
AI Disclosure
At Ontario College of Pharmacists, we value transparency and fairness in recruitment. While our system (ADP Workforce Now) includes AI-powered features, we do not use AI to screen, assess, or select applicants. All evaluations are conducted by people.
If you are interested in joining the College, please apply by July 14, 2026 stating salary expectations at www.ocpinfo.com/about/careers.
Requests for accommodations can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known when contacted.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest in this position. We will only contact those whose skills, knowledge, and experience most closely match the requirements of the position.
