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About us: 

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services. Our values were developed by our staff, patients, and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About you: 

You are a qualified Pharmacist with proven experience in a clinical pharmacy position and a demonstrated ability to apply evidence in a practical manner to achieve improved patient outcomes. You have high knowledge of contemporary, human resource management issues both at the broad and specific level, with reference to workplace health and safety, employment equity and anti-discrimination and demonstrated ability to work co-operatively with less experienced pharmacists and pharmacy assistants to deliver clinical pharmacy services while fostering teamwork and professional development.

Your opportunity: 

To deliver high-level clinical pharmacy services within the allocated unit/s as a member of a multidisciplinary team. This role incorporates a focus on First Nations and Rural and Remote patients within the community services across the Region.

Provide leadership and high-level pharmacy services (including a specialist pharmacy resource in First Nations Care), with expertise in the allocated area to patients who present to Innisfail, Tully, and Babinda Hospitals, to a complex and varied workload, with a high degree of independence and initiative, to develop services and promote and maintain best practice care to patients.

To provide care and education using Telehealth and internet services to rural and remote regions to improve equity of access for patients including those who self-identify as First Nations.

Your role: 

• Deliver high-level clinical pharmacy services within a single or multidisciplinary team within the CHHHS in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards with infrequent need for direct clinical practice supervision.
• Apply professional judgement to a complex caseload, adapting routine clinical practice based on valid and reliable evidence.
• Monitor clinical work practices and develop innovative and novel systems to assist all members of the community services through the development of information resources, which includes legislation, pharmaceutical information, drug therapy protocols and relevant published resources.
• Conduct Telehealth medication review with patients requiring Community Care in rural and remote areas.
• Participate in a structured mentoring program for pharmacists including community providers to develop specialist skills within the rural and community service for patients self-identifying as First Nations and for Rural and Remote patients.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland )