Key Points:
- Permanent full-time Rotational Hospital Pharmacist position, covering the Slade Pharmacy network across Melbourne.
- Candidate will have the choice of zone based on where they live reducing travel time although the zone for this appointment must include working at Slade Werribee.
- Experience working in diverse hospital pharmacy settings, and gain invaluable opportunities to further develop your skills in operational, clinical and specialty pharmacy services
- Full training provided.
- Join Australia’s largest integrated provider of cancer care and enjoy real career development opportunities along with fantastic employee benefits
Are you currently working for a high-volume, discount chemist retailer and seeking an opportunity to advance your career into hospital pharmacy? This is your chance to specialise and work in the highly technical field of clinical hospital pharmacy.
We are looking for a permanent full-time Rotational Pharmacist to join our team at Slade Pharmacy. You will be working on-site with our specialty hospital and clinical teams across a diverse range of hospital pharmacies in Melbourne.
At Slade Pharmacy, you will work with forward thinking multidisciplinary teams of connected, caring people to deliver exceptional pharmacy services for our client hospitals and their patients. But don’t just take our word for it. Here’s just some of the wonderful things our Reliever pharmacist Jodie Wilson has to say about her experience in the role:
“One of the main things that I love about being a reliever pharmacist, is that it allows me to combine my love of travel, with my passion for pharmacy and truly making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. I enjoy the variety of working with different teams in different locations, it keeps things fresh and exciting – no two days are the same. Working as a reliever pharmacist has exposed me to many different clinical areas in hospital pharmacy, where I’ve developed the type of knowledge and experience that I would not have gained otherwise.” – Jodie Wilson, Reliever Pharmacist
About the Role
As a Reliever Pharmacist you will have the option of being zoned in a particular area of Melbourne, based on where you live, to assist in reducing travel time. You will be working across multiple sites; covering various periods of planned pharmacist leave while gaining new skills and knowledge across our range of specialties. This is full-time permanent position, and you will be entitled to rotational/reliever rates and benefits where additional travel is required.
Duties include:
- Conducting medication chart reviews and medication reconciliations
- Dispensing and supplying medication and discharge medication profiles
- Coordinating patient medication requirements for inpatient stay and discharge
- Developing and maintaining professional relationships with key stakeholders to ensure excellent customer service to clients and patients
- Supporting patients, carers, hospital staff and associated employees
You are an adaptable Pharmacist who possess strong communication, interpersonal skills, the ability to work autonomously prioritise workload to deliver the best possible care to patients.
Community pharmacists, newly registered (or soon to be registered) pharmacists are encouraged to apply, full training will be provided for the successful applicants!
Requirements:
- Be a current AHPRA registered pharmacist or a Pharmacy intern awaiting general registration from AHPRA.
- Dispensing experience in an Australian based hospital or community pharmacy
- Hold a current drivers licence
- Strong knowledge of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
- Value attention to detail and able to work autonomously.
About Us
Icon Group provides a complete suite of services to support the operation of more than 75 pharmacies across Australia. Icon Group supports Slade and Epic pharmacies specialising in hospital and oncology pharmacy services. This includes regional and metropolitan sites in both public and private hospitals that range from 31 to 900 beds.
The national pharmacy network offers partner hospitals best-practice medication supply and clinical pharmacy services, combined with extensive experience and knowledge of pharmacy governance and quality management practices.
For more information visit https://icongroup.global/en/our-services/pharmacy-services ;
Our Values
- Purpose, at Pace: We remain focused on continually expanding our cancer treatment services and making them accessible to more people across Australia and internationally.
- Impact, at Scale: We’re Australia’s largest dedicated provider of cancer care, with our global reach growing every day. Here you’ll know your work is making a difference.
- Connection, at Heart: Our work isn’t easy but it’s extremely important. Our secret ingredient is our incredible, connected, and talented people. And their secret ingredient is each other.
- Opportunity, at Hand: We’re continually innovating. We deliver over 2.5 million patient interactions, in over 120 places, across 5 countries. Every week brings changes, growth and new opportunities.
Amazing Benefits at Icon Group
- In addition to our competitive base remuneration and set allowances, Relievers are provided with set allowances including meal and travel mileage on top of our competitive base remuneration.
- Flights and accommodation are provided for travel outside the greater Newcastle area
- Fantastic opportunity to gain experience in a variety of different hospitals and multi-disciplinary areas
- Make meaningful connections with staff across our pharmacy network
- Dedicated career-enhancing and industry-recognised pharmacy training courses
- Endless opportunities to grow and progress your career within our organisation.
- Valued rewards and recognition program
- Incredible discounts and cashback on hundreds of brands through our internal Ignite app
- Flexible work arrangements (where applicable), including hybrid work environment, compressed work weeks, varying start-finish times and so much more!
- Access to novated lease options via our partner RemServ
- Access to paid parental leave for permanent employees
- Resources and tools to help support and balance psychological and physical health
- Exciting international opportunities as part of Icon’s expansion
- Opportunity to apply for our internal Middleton Scholarship program, which is focused on empowering continued professional development
Please attach a resume and cover letter showing us why you’d love to join us, and what makes you a great fit for the role.
Icon Group celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees. We encourage applications from all diverse backgrounds. Visit https://icongroup.global/en/careers/our-people/stories/ to read the stories of our incredible people.
Pre-employment Health Requirement
Icon is committed to managing the risk of transmission of specified vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Certain roles may require the successful candidate to show evidence that they have been vaccinated against or are not susceptible to specified VPDs.