Lead Pharmacist

City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.Flexible working conditions.11.5% Superannuation.About the Hospital: North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS).
This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra's Northside.
The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community-based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW.
North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberra's expanding northside.
North Canberra Hospital operates a 24-hour Emergency Department.
Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health, and critical care.
Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home, and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.
The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce.
It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors, and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services.
Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.
About the role: NCH Pharmacy sits within the Division of Allied Health and Palliative Care and comprises a highly functioning and friendly team of approximately 45 staff – pharmacists, technicians, and administration staff.
Currently, the department provides clinical pharmacy services using a complete digital health record to various specialty areas including critical care, emergency care, coronary care, stroke/neurology, general medicine, general surgery, palliative care, maternity, mental health, pre-admission clinic, hospital in the home, as well as dispensary and non-sterile manufacturing services.
We also offer a pharmacy residency program and a wide range of teaching opportunities.
Over the next two years, we plan to develop our services to include Partnered Pharmacist Medication Charting (PPMC), enhanced use of technologies and automation, extended scope pharmacy technician roles, and further development of the clinical pharmacy workforce.
We are committed to providing a safe environment for our staff and our patients.
Our Pharmacy Vision – Leaders in pharmacy.
The workplace of choice to deliver excellence in medicine management.
Our Pharmacy Mission – A strong, innovative, and inclusive team who collaborate to provide optimal medication management.
Our Pharmacy Values – integrity, excellence and innovation, caring and inclusive, stewardship and sustainability, collaborative.
This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and experienced pharmacist to join our team, work closely with the Director of Pharmacy (DoP), other Lead Pharmacists, and a team of dedicated and skilled pharmacists and technicians to deliver a safe, efficacious, and patient-centred service.
For more information on this position and how to apply, click here. Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focused on the delivery of high quality, effective, person-centred care.
It provides acute, sub-acute, primary, and community-based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region.
More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care togetherOur Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our communityOur Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful, and Kind.
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace.
As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
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