Pharmacist - Hith & Infusion Centre

Who We Are and What We Stand For

Peninsula Health is the major metropolitan health service caring for a community of 300,000 people. Our Vision is to provide exceptional health and community care. To realise this vision we need people who strive for a sense of achievement, take an interest in their individual growth, enjoy innovation and looking for ways to improve and have a passion for communicating and connecting with others.

In representing Peninsula Health, we expect all employees and volunteers to reflect our values: Be the Best, Be a Role Model, Be Open and Honest, Be Compassionate and Respectful and Be Collaborative. We are One Peninsula Health.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide pharmacy services to ensure medication use is safe, personal, effective and services are efficient. This includes but not limited to, appropriate and timely counselling of patients in medication use, monitoring of medications especially those with a narrow therapeutic index, and ensuring medications are available.
• Provide connected care, ensuring appropriate communication of medication use between health care providers, both internally and external at transition of care.
• Ensure a safe high quality care in your work, which includes complying with best practice standards, identifying and reporting any variance to expected standards and minimising the risk of adverse outcomes and patient harm.
• Maintain a high level of responsiveness and service to patients and consumers
• Maintain all standard operating procedures for the Pharmacy, Hospital in the Home and Infusion Centre service

What You Need

We anticipate you will have:
• Full Pharmacy Board of Australia (AHPRA) registration with no restrictions to the scope of practice.
• Demonstrate adequate level of clinical knowledge of current drug usage, interactions and counselling.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team.
• Demonstrated excellent organisation, communication and liaison skills.
• A keen interest and desire to work in the field of hospital pharmacy.
• Recent experience as a hospital clinical pharmacist or with aseptic manufacturing (desirable).

What Next

If you experience any issues signing in or registering, please feel welcome to contact us - the People Experience Team on (03) 9784 2***.

Additional Requirements

Peninsula Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity and promotes a workplace that welcomes and includes the unique contributions of all people. We encourage applications from individuals who identify as being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, are culturally diverse, LGBTQIA+ or who have a disability to apply. We are also strongly committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.

We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process.

To find out more about our recruitment processes, compliance obligations and to prepare your application to join our team please visit:

https://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/careers/working-preparing-employment/

*Please refer to salary circular for MEDICAL SCIENTISTS, PHARMACISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS (VICTORIAN PUBLIC SECTOR) (SINGLE INTEREST EMPLOYERS) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021 – 2025) for salary range. Sub-grading will be based on years of experience.

This role must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and meet the requirements of the Peninsula Health immunisation policy.

Join Peninsula Health and help us to deliver safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time.