Hospital Pharmacist - Epic Pharmacy, Mater Private Hospital Townsville
Pharmacy QLD - Other Full Time Epic Pharmacy
Key Points:
- Full-time 12-month contract and permanent part-time positions available at Epic Pharmacy, located in Mater Private Hospital Townsville, Pimlico Campus.
- Gain valuable experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting.
- Newly registered Pharmacists are encouraged to apply as comprehensive training will be provided.
- Join a growing organisation with great benefits, structured career progression under our National Careers Pathway initiative, and endless opportunities to grow and progress your career.
The Opportunity We are seeking full-time 12-month contract and permanent part-time pharmacist to join our dynamic team at Epic Pharmacy, Mater Private Hospital Townsville in Pimlico. In this role, you will deliver high-quality clinical pharmacy services to both inpatients and outpatients, ensuring excellence in all aspects of pharmacy operations while supporting the quality use of medicines.
This is an exciting chance to advance your career within a multidisciplinary team environment, working with both public and private patients. As a forward-thinking team, we actively embrace opportunities for growth, innovation, and enhanced patient outcomes.
Mater Private Hospital, Townsville (Pimlico) is a 200-bed leading contemporary medical facility, including a dedicated Women’s and Children’s Units, an Emergency Department, and the largest private cardiac presence north of Brisbane.
About the Role - Provide efficient clinical pharmacy services to a clinical area.
- Conduct medication history interviews, medication reconciliation and pharmaceutical reviews at transfers of care.
- Be efficient and effective dispensing and distribution of medication.
- Conduct therapeutic drug monitoring, monitor medication outcomes and adverse drug reaction management.
- Provide medication counselling & education to patients.
- Work cooperatively and effectively with multidisciplinary teams and provide advice in regard to patient care.
- Contribute to training and educational sessions for pharmacy, nursing, medical staff and allied health professionals.
- Support the quality use of medicines by participating in projects, audits, working groups or committees as required.
- Consider financial implications of medication use in hospital and for patients obtaining the medicines in the community.
- Contribute to on-call and weekend services.
Full-time: Monday to Friday, with one weekend shift every fortnight. Weekend shifts are a maximum of 4.5 hours.
Part-time: Up to 56 hours per fortnight, including regular weekend shifts.
About You Whether you are an experienced community Pharmacist looking to move into hospital pharmacy, or a newly registered pharmacist eager to begin your hospital pharmacy career, we welcome your application. Full training will be provided to support your development.
To be successful, we require that you possess:
- Current AHPRA registration as a pharmacist.
- Experience working in an Australian pharmacy setting.
About Us Icon Group operates a national network of 70+ Epic, Slade and Icon pharmacies that specialise in hospital and oncology pharmacy services. From regional to metropolitan sites, we have experience in both public and private hospitals that range from 31 to 900 beds. Built on a shared 90-year history of Epic and Slade pharmacies, we offer partner hospitals best-practice in medication supply and clinical pharmacy services, combined with a deep knowledge of pharmacy governance and quality management practices.
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.
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Amazing Benefits at Icon Group - Dedicated career-enhancing and industry-recognised pharmacy training courses.
- Competitive remuneration and structured professional development through our National Career Pathway.
- Valued rewards and recognition program.
- Incredible discounts and cashback on hundreds of brands through our internal Ignite app.
- Access to novated lease (salary packaging) 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.
To Apply 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 to read the stories of our incredible people.
COVID-19 Health Requirement Icon is committed to managing the risk of transmission of specified vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) including COVID-19. Certain roles may require the successful candidate to show evidence that they have been vaccinated against or are not susceptible to specified VPDs.
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