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Northpharm Pty Ltd are seeking passionate, enthusiastic and customer-focused Pharmacists to join our pharmacy team in Darwin.
Short fixed and permanent long-term positions are available.
As part of the pharmacy team and in collaboration with other health professionals, you will provide a clinical pharmacy service, including the supply of medicines to urban, rural and remote sites.
These positions involve dispensing, counselling and the provision of dose administration aids to clients of the health service. The pharmacist also acts as a consultant to medical, nursing and allied health staff.
In return for your efforts and dedication, we are offering attractive packages to suitable applicants. The hours support a healthy work/lifestyle balance with ample opportunity to enjoy and explore all that the region has to offer.
If you are an AHPRA registered pharmacist with a positive attitude, then please submit your resume.
Some roles and responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):
- receiving prescriptions, checking patients' medicine histories, and ensuring optimal dosage and methods of administration and drug compatibility before dispensing
- preparing or supervising the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions
- advising prescribers on drug incompatibility and contra-indications
- reviewing and monitoring the medicine therapy of individual patients, and assessing the effectiveness of the total medicine therapy
- maintaining prescription files and recording issue of narcotics, poisons and habit-forming drugs
- storing and preserving vaccines, serums and other drugs subject to deterioration
- supplying non-prescription medicines, and diagnostic and therapeutic aids
- supervising and coordinating the work of Pharmacy Technicians, pharmacy interns and Pharmacy Sales Assistants
- conducting research to develop and improve pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and related chemical products
- conferring with Chemists, Engineering Professionals and other professionals about manufacturing techniques and ingredients
- testing and analysing drugs to determine their identity, purity and strength in relation to specified standards
- developing standards for drugs used in pharmaceuticals
Requirements:
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Registration essential
- A sensitive and culturally safe ability to interact with Aboriginal people
- An ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary health care team
- Exceptional communication skills with customers and colleagues
