Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

St John of John of God Ballarat Hospital is one of Victoria's largest regional private hospitals and offers an extensive range of acute services for the community. While the hospital has existed since the early 1900s, the facility has continually been expanded to ensure modern services, and equipment are available to meet the needs of the community.

Your role
The Pharmacist will provide a ward based clinical pharmacy service including drug chart review, and one-on-one patient counselling at the bedside, with the pharmacist being a valuable member of the therapeutic team.

This position will be offered on a fixed term contract until August 2026, working 76 hours per fortnight.

The Position

• Dispensing medications and education of patients in their use.
• Provide a ward pharmacy service to a specific ward including review of drug therapy charts, patient medication education and liaison with medical and other paramedical staff.
• Preparation of aseptic items in accordance with the guidelines set down by the Code of Manufacturing Practice, SHPA Practice standards and Hospital Policies.
• To provide assistance in the pharmacy with dispensing and cover of other pharmacists' duties as required.
• Supervision of imprest stock distribution, bulk manufacturing of prepacking by Pharmacy Technicians as required.
• Provision of continuing education lectures for staff development within the Hospital.
• Contributes to and is involved in Quality Activities with a focus on best practice.
• Participates in determining and evaluating the quality of care being delivered to patients.
• Co-operates in data collection of hospital-wide Quality Activity projects and Clinical Indicators.

You will be registered as a Pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia (AHPRA). In addition, you will have well-developed interpersonal, communication skills with the ability to relate to others in a sensitive and professional manner.

To succeed you will have the ability to work well in a team environment and have excellent time management and organisational skills. You will demonstrate senior clinical skills within the cope of a Pharmacist.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values

We can offer you

• Salary Grade 2: $95,276 to $111,286 plus 12% superannuation
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and
• additional superannuation
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Innovative Professional Development opportunities
• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards and discounts

For enquiries, contact Katherine John , Director of Pharmacy on (03) 5320 2550.

If suitable candidates are identfied advertisment may close prior to listed date.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role