This is an opportunity to secure yourself a permanent position in a highly respected hospital pharmacy service, where your successful completion of the internship, and registration as a pharmacist, will see you continue on your career journey with us. Following your internship, you will be offered enrolment in our nationally-recognised Resident Pharmacist training program, setting you up for a life of career opportunities and growth.

Tasmanian Health Service

2026 Hospital Pharmacist Internships - $77,737 per annum

Permanent Full Time – Multiple Positions
Applications Close 10 June 2025 11:55pm AEST

To be Tasmanian is to value quality over quantity. We create, preserve, and protect the unusual. With quiet confidence, with passion and perseverance, we pursue the extraordinary. Could you be Tasmanian?

You could start your Pharmacy career anywhere. What’s different about Tasmania is our culture and our lifestyle. You will be encouraged to be yourself, to learn, to grow and to develop meaning in your work. You will have a powerful connection to your patients and your colleagues, and the community will encourage your success. Our isolation helps drive a culture of creation and human connection, which feels both old fashioned and… like the only future worth pursuing.

This is an opportunity to secure yourself a permanent position in a highly respected hospital pharmacy service, where your successful completion of the internship, and registration as a pharmacist, will see you continue your career journey with us. There will be no need to apply for another position.

Here you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to breath-taking coastlines, National Parks, and incredible fresh produce crafted by locals. After a hard day at work, you don’t have to sit in traffic for an hour. You decompress with a wander through your beautiful home city, a relaxed drive through stunning natural scenery, on you put on your boots and tell it to a mountain.

We offer an exciting and rewarding place to work, featuring contemporary, evidence-informed practise that sees our Pharmacists closely linked to the broader multidisciplinary team. Across the state, we provide clinical pharmacy services within our four major hospitals, as well as the manufacturing of products, chemotherapy preparation, clinical trials, outpatient dispensing and therapeutic drug monitoring. Our research program is highly-developed, with many of the team presenting each year at the Advanced Pharmacy Australia National Conference, Australia's largest scientific pharmacy event.

Our hospitals are accredited recognised nationally for their Pharmacist Residency training program, which is offered to all pharmacists who complete their intern training. Completion of a Residency Program fast-tracks the skills and development of pharmacists, opening up a world of future career options and professional growth.

You’ll begin your career journey amongst a mix of passionate locals and new Tasmanian adventurers who will welcome your energy and experiences into the group dynamic. We actively promote improved medication safety and equity of access to pharmacy services, both of which are so crucial to improving the lives of the people in the diverse and inclusive communities where we live and work.

We’ll look after you from the very beginning, ensuring you are fully welcomed into our culture. As a group, we are dedicated to the development of our people and will work to help you to achieve your goals. Upon completion of your internship you will have access to our Pharmacist Residency Program.

When you apply, we will ask you to rank your preferences for which of our three beautiful regions you would like to work in. Discover more here:

Burnie & Devonport // Launceston // Hobart

For more information about becoming a Pharmacy Intern in Tasmania, please email or phone Fiona Lockwood, our Pharmacy Support Officer: [email protected] or (03) 6777 6733

Details of Appointment: Permanent, full-time, shift worker positions, working 76 hours per fortnight (part-time negotiable with successful applicants)

• Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.

Salary: $77,737 per annum pro rata + 11.5% superannuation (this salary will be in effect until the first full pay period commencing on or before 1 December 2025)

• Salary range is in accordance with Allied Health Public Sector Agreement No.2 of 2022

Salary Packaging: Access to a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year

Relocation Assistance: Support for travel, relocation and initial accommodation costs may be negotiated

Professional Development: $1,000 per annum entitlement for professional development course fees (daily wage, flights, accommodation, daily allowance paid in addition to this), this is available after completion of internship

Ongoing employment: Intern pharmacists who complete their training and probation will be permanently employed as Registered Pharmacists, and will be automatically offered enrolment in the AdPha Pharmacy Residency program.

Position Features:

• May occasionally be required to perform duties at other locations within the jurisdiction of the Department of Health.
• The duration of the traineeship will be for a finite period as determined by negotiation between the trainee, the Pharmacy Board of Australia and the Hospital, but is limited to a maximum of 12 months duration.
• After the initial trainee period, the appointee will undertake the role of a registered pharmacist.

Eligibility:

Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:

1. Tertiary qualification/program of study approved by the Pharmacy Board of Australia or completion of an overseas qualification eligible for skills assessment through the Australian Pharmacy Council.
2. Registered with the Pharmacy Board of Australia. For pre-registration (intern) pharmacists: Eligible for provisional registration with the Pharmacy Board of Australia.

The Head of the State Service has determined that the person nominated for this job is to satisfy a pre‑employment check before taking up the appointment, on promotion or transfer. The following checks are to be conducted:

1. Conviction checks in the following areas:

1. crimes of violence
2. sex related offences
3. serious drug offences
4. crimes involving dishonesty

1. Identification check
2. Disciplinary action in previous employment check.

How to Apply

Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen. This ensures important questions about you are answered.

You will be prompted to address the selection criteria, outlining your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties.

Please note:

• All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
• Referee details are submitted as part of the online application so make sure you have the contact details of two referees before applying.
• Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this role

Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents

We encourage you to review the Applicant Guide, Statement of Duties, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and selection criteria.

Statement of Duties

• Generic Intern Pharmacist (Statewide)HP1-2 (July 2023) CSU.pdf
• Generic Intern Pharmacist (Statewide)HP1-2 (July 2023) CSU.docx

Applicant Guide

• Department of Health - Applicant Guide Sep 2024.docx

For more information (Contact Officer)

Fiona Lockwood

Position: Pharmacy Support Officer
Phone: (03) 6777 6733
E-mail: [email protected]

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Respecting diversity is the foundation of everything that Department of Health do. This allows us to instil trust and collaborate through honest and fair communication and helps cultivate an environment of growth and innovation. We strongly encourage applicants from key communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQA+ people, and people living with disabilities.