What is Council?

The SCPP Council will include the President, President-Elect, immediate Past-President, the dean of the College of Pharmacy, University of Saskatchewan (ex-officio) or their designate, one practising or non-practising member (councillor) appointed (or elected prior to 2024) from each of the seven councillor categories and those specified in subsection 8(1) of the Act (up to four appointed public members).

Your skills, knowledge and experience are essential to ensure that SCPP successfully achieves our mission, to protect the public interest by building excellence in professional pharmacy practice through regulation.

SCPP provides governance training and the Registrar conducts a Council orientation before the first meeting of the new Council. Councillors are also provided with a Council Handbook and mentoring from current Councillors.

• One Hospital Pharmacist (Hosp.) - This will include every practising pharmacist member who serves patients (directly or indirectly) with their primary place of practice being in a hospital setting, and every non-practising pharmacist member whose primary place of practice immediately prior to becoming a non-practising member was in a hospital setting. There shall be one electoral category position (referred to as Hosp. Pharm.) within this electoral category. For the purposes of the bylaws, hospital setting includes all publicly operated pharmacies, as defined in clause 2(x) of the Act and a hospital pharmacist is a pharmacist who is (or was) employed within these publicly operated pharmacies.
  
  
• One Hospital Pharmacy Technician (H-PhT) - This will include every practising pharmacy technician member who serves patients (directly or indirectly) with their primary place of practice being in a hospital setting, and every non-practising pharmacy technician member whose primary place of practice immediately prior to becoming a non-practising member was in a hospital setting. For the purpose of these bylaws, hospital setting includes all publicly operated pharmacies, as defined in clause 2(x) of the Act and a hospital pharmacy technician is a pharmacy technician who is (or was) employed within one (or more) of these publicly operated pharmacies.
  
  
• One Community Pharmacy Technician (C-PhT) - This will include every practising pharmacy technician member (excluding hospital pharmacy technicians) who serves patients (directly or indirectly) as a community pharmacy technician, and every non-practising pharmacy technician member (excluding hospital pharmacy technicians) who was practising as a community pharmacy technician immediately prior to becoming a non-practising member.
  
  
• Two Urban Pharmacists (Urban 1 and Urban 2) - This will include every practising pharmacist member (excluding hospital pharmacists) who serves patients (directly or indirectly), with their primary place of practice being in an urban municipality with a population greater than or equal to 20,000, and every non-practising pharmacist member (excluding hospital pharmacists) whose primary place of practice immediately prior to becoming a non-practising member was in an urban municipality with a population greater than or equal to 20,000.
  
  
• Two Rural or Remote pharmacists (Rural 1 and Rural 2) - This will include every practising pharmacist member (excluding hospital pharmacists) who serves patients (directly or indirectly) with their primary place of practice being in a rural or remote municipality with a population less than 20,000, and every non-practising pharmacist member (excluding hospital pharmacists) whose primary place of practice immediately prior to becoming a non-practising member was in a rural or remote municipality with a population less than 20,000.
  
  

See SCPP's Administrative Bylaws for more information.

Councillor category vacancies will alternate on a three-year cycle (with the possibility of renewal for an additional three-year term).

The member who self-nominates must:

• Be a practising member (pharmacist or pharmacy technician) in good standing with the SCPP; or
• Be a non-practising member (pharmacist or pharmacy technician) in good standing with the SCPP and a resident of Saskatchewan; and
• Be willing to resign from an SCPP committee (if they are currently serving on a committee, whose Terms of Reference do not specify a washout period) immediately upon assuming their Council role should they be appointed to Council;
• Have a three-year washout period if they have previously been a member of a pharmacy-related advocacy board such as CPhA, PAS, CAPT, PTSSK, CSHP or other advocacy groups;
• Have a three-year washout period if they were previously actively employed in a pharmacy-related advocacy role;
• Have never been an employee of the SCPP; and
• Have a five-year washout period before running for Council again if they have served their maximum term on Council.

• On the last Wednesday of November in the year prior to a new Council vacancy, the Registrar shall provide notice of the upcoming call for nominations.
• On the second Wednesday of December in the year prior to a new Council vacancy, the Registrar shall announce an open call for nominations. Nominations will close on the last Wednesday in January.

Candidates will self-nominate by providing a current resume or curriculum vitae (C.V.) and their responses to the candidate questionnaire. These documents will be reviewed by the Human Resources and Governance Committee (HRGC) who will assess each candidate against a Council- approved rubric. In addition to this assessment, the HRGC may at any time conduct interviews with the candidates prior to recommending appointment to Council. Candidates will be notified by the last day of April that they will be recommended for appointment to Council at the May or June meeting.

The term of an appointed member of Council will be for three years beginning July 1. Councillors may serve up to two consecutive terms for a total of six years of service on Council not inclusive of officer positions.

Annually at the first Council meeting after councillor appointments and Officer elections, Council will appoint a Human Resources and Governance Committee, chaired by the immediate Past-President and will include the President, President-Elect, a public representative on Council, and up to two practising members who are not currently members of Council and will not be seeking appointment to Council. See the Human Resources and Governance Committee Terms of Reference for more information.

This Committee will:

• Communicate with Council to ensure completion of a CASE Self-Assessment Questionnaire by all Council members;
• Perform a gap analysis and summarize for Council;
• Review CASE Self-Assessment and Matrix summary annually to assess if amendments are required based on any identified deficiencies or areas for improvement;
• Update Candidate Information Package based on the gap analysis;
• Review Councillor candidate submissions and narrow to three candidates per electoral category using the Councillor Candidate Assessment Rubric; 
• Identify and encourage eligible members to seek nomination for appointment to Council; 
• Identify and encourage members of Council to either nominate Councillors or seek nomination for election as an Officer of the College; 
• Seek out members for the Human Resources and Governance Committee for the following year;
• Identify and encourage members to accept appointments on behalf of SCPP to external organizations and to Council committees; 
• Advise Council on recruitment and retention strategies such as mentorship and shadowing initiatives;
• Monitor Council structure to ensure it won’t fall below the required seven (7) appointed members;
• Report to the last meeting of Council in the fiscal year; and 
• Annually review policy GP-14 Governance Succession and recommend changes to Council.