Lead Pharmacist
Lead Pharmacist
Exciting opportunity working as Lead Pharmacist overseeing the RFDS Medical Chest Program.
Classifications
- Healthcare & Medicine
- Pharmacy / Chemist
- Part-time
Key points
- Make a career change and work for a not for profit
- Relocation Assistance to your new home town of Dubbo
- Work life balance - part time and hybrid working
Description
Dubbo Based Role
Part Time: 4 Days a week
Part Time: 4 Days a week
We are offering you an exciting opportunity to join the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section (RFDSSE) in this newly created role based in Dubbo as Lead Pharmacist, providing expertise, advice, and support in the maintenance of medication management practices and policies.
Do you know about the RFDS Medical Chest Program, which has been around for 80 years? This is a life-saving program that helps people receive the medication they need when they can’t get to a doctor or hospital. In your new role you will be responsible for overseeing this essential program to support rural and remote communities.
What we can do for you
- Work-life balance – Part-Time role: 4 days a week
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Make your mark in this role working in our Clinical Governance Team
- Salary packaging increasing your take-home pay by 5-10%
- Generous relocation assistance package
- Provide subject matter expertise to senior clinicians and participate on various committees and working groups
- Develop/Implement systems for monitoring and tracking medical chests, contents and returned medications
- Support consumers with all medical chest enquiries in a timely manner, including new applications, transfers, agreements, special conditions forms and orders
- Liaise with suppliers to replenish items as ordered by medical chest holders
- Manage regular audits to ensure all chests and contents are accounted for and that expired monitored medications have been returned
- Ensure that RFDSSE is compliant with legislative and regulatory requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Pharmacy, Pharmacy Management, or Pharmacy Practice
- Current AHPRA registration as a Pharmacist with no restrictions or conditions, or the ability and commitment to obtain within 3 months.
- 5 or more years of experience as a Pharmacist
- Professional membership with a national association such as PSA or SHPA
- Evidence of full COVID-19 vaccination
- Experience in a multi-discipline health service as a pharmacist such as a Hospital Pharmacist or Clinical Pharmacist
Our Values: Our Values of Reliability, Care, Trust and Safety shape the way we work as individuals, as team members and with the communities we serve.
