AddressAre you passionate about delivering exceptional pharmacy services and ensuring the best possible patient care?
Applications Close: Sunday 31st March 2024
Clinical Pharmacist
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
John Hunter Hospital
About the role:
In this position, you will be working closely with a ward-based multi-disciplinary team to provide a comprehensive pharmacy service. Ensuring excellence in patient care, evidence-based practice, service improvement, and risk management with a role in supporting the training of junior pharmacists and technician staff.
- Monitor and report on medication use to achieve both budget and service delivery targets.
- Review, validate, dispense, compound, and check medicines, according to local guidelines, formulary restrictions, and training validations to ensure the timely provision of key therapy and to facilitate patient flow.
- Act as a resource for medication safety and medicines governance to rostered areas through regular audits of compliance with medication-related processes and policies.
- Actively contribute to pharmacy-related teaching, educational, and orientation activities to pharmacy staff, other health care professionals, and patients/carers.
- Participate in other Pharmacy functions as required including accountable medication management; maintenance of policies and guidelines; electronic system updates; quality improvement initiatives; auditing; data collection; incident and intervention reporting; research; projects; and stewardship programs.
- There will be opportunities to pursue research and innovation.
- The Pharmacist will report to the area Team Leader or Manager.
Where you'll be working:
John Hunter Hospital Pharmacy department is home to an energetic and enthusiastic team working in a wide variety of roles. The department provides an extensive range of pharmacy services including manufacturing, medication safety, and clinical trials in addition to ward and dispensary roles for pharmacists and technicians.
This is an opportunity to work for the largest employer in the region which services a population of more than 900,000 across the Hunter, New England, and Lower Mid North Coast areas. John Hunter Hospital is a Level 6, tertiary referral, major trauma and teaching hospital and is the largest hospital in the Hunter New England Local Health District. HNELHD has strong, innovative connections with the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute.
Benefits:
- Receive mentorship and support to advance your career, with opportunities to train and guide junior pharmacists and technician staff.
- Explore opportunities for research and innovation.
- Collaborate with a diverse, ward-based multi-disciplinary team to provide comprehensive pharmacy services.
- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero.
- ADO's each month (for full time employees).
- 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part time employees).
- Salary packaging options.
- Fitness Passport.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.
Requirements:
- Current Pharmacist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) with no restrictions on practice.
- Willingness and ability to participate in on-call, after-hours, weekend, and public holiday work as required.
About you:
- Experience in a critical care environment is desired.
Need more information?
For role-related queries or questions contact Kate O'Hara on **********@health.nsw.gov.au
Information for Applicants:
This position is advertised as a Grade 1 or Grade 2 Pharmacist. An evaluation against the Award criteria for a Grade 2 Pharmacist will determine the grading of the successful applicant.
We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
An eligibility list will be created for future temporary part time vacancies.
Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below). For assistance addressing selection criteria visit: https://bit.ly/3vL5fq2 Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help indigenous job applicants apply for positions in NSW Health. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/HNEHealthSteppingUp.All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most HNELHD employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salary package a range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contacting SalaryPackagingPLUS! via *********@salarypackagingplus.com.au or 1300 40 25 23. HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.
