Pharmacist

UFS Healthcare; Ballarat; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Overtime options

Flexible work arrangements

Rostered Days Off

Professional development

Career progression

Staff discounts

Supportive team

Job summary

UFS Healthcare is recruiting Pharmacists to deliver patient-centred care, clinical services and community health improvements in Ballarat, Victoria. This role focuses on clinical interventions, medication management and health education while collaborating with GPs and allied health teams.

You’ll use your clinical expertise to improve patient outcomes, participate in vaccination clinics and contribute to service development across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Qualified pharmacist with strong clinical knowledge and a passion for helping people.
• Excellent communication and patient counselling skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team and take initiative.

Responsibilities

• Safe and accurate dispensing of prescriptions.
• Providing medicines information, counselling and health advice.
• Delivering professional services including vaccinations and MedsChecks.
• Identifying and recording clinical interventions to improve patient outcomes.
• Supporting medication management and preventative health initiatives.
• Maintaining high standards of professional practice and patient safety.
• Collaborating with healthcare professionals to provide coordinated care.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Communication skills

Patient counselling

Team collaboration

Initiative & adaptability

Education

Bachelor of Pharmacy

Job description

Pharmacist | Make a Meaningful Difference Every Day

Ballarat, Victoria | Full Time and Part Time Opportunities

What if your next pharmacist role gave you more opportunity to use your clinical skills and less time getting bogged down in routine dispensing?

What if every day, you could focus on improving health outcomes, building relationships with patients, and delivering healthcare that genuinely changes lives?

At UFS Healthcare, we're looking for passionate Pharmacists to join our pharmacy team and help shape the future of community healthcare.

This is an opportunity to work in an organisation that sees pharmacy as more than dispensing. Our pharmacists are healthcare professionals first, supported to deliver professional services, health advice, medication management, clinical interventions, and patient-centred care that makes a real difference in the community.

For more than 140 years, UFS Healthcare has been trusted by local communities across western Victoria. As a profit-for-purpose mutual organisation, our success isn't measured solely by financial performance. It's measured by healthier communities, better access to healthcare, and the positive impact we make every day.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise is valued and your work has purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Why This Role Is Different

At UFS, our pharmacies are healthcare destinations.

You'll be encouraged to practise forward pharmacy and work alongside experienced teams that support you to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional care to patients and the wider community.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Provide genuine patient-centred healthcare
• Deliver a wide range of professional pharmacy services
• Build long-term relationships with patients and local healthcare providers
• Work collaboratively with GPs, allied health professionals and broader healthcare teams
• Use your clinical expertise to improve patient outcomes
• Contribute ideas, innovation and service development across the organisation

What You'll Be Doing

As a Pharmacist, you'll play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our members, customers and community through:

• Safe and accurate dispensing of prescriptions
• Providing medicines information, counselling and health advice
• Delivering professional services including vaccinations, MedsChecks, Diabetes MedsChecks and other clinical programs
• Identifying and recording clinical interventions that improve patient outcomes
• Supporting medication management and preventative health initiatives
• Maintaining the highest standards of professional practice and patient safety
• Collaborating with healthcare professionals to provide coordinated care
• Contributing to pharmacy performance, service quality and continuous improvement initiatives

About You

You're a qualified pharmacist who combines strong clinical knowledge with a genuine passion for helping people.

You enjoy building relationships, providing trusted healthcare advice, and finding solutions that improve patient wellbeing.

You'll bring:

• Current AHPRA Pharmacist Registration
• Bachelor of Pharmacy qualification
• Strong clinical knowledge and commitment to continuous learning
• Excellent communication and patient counselling skills
• A customer-first approach to healthcare
• The ability to work collaboratively within a team environment
• Initiative, adaptability and a solutions-focused mindset

Highly Regarded

• Community pharmacy experience
• QCPP experience
• Vaccination accreditation
• Experience delivering professional pharmacy services
• Knowledge of contemporary community pharmacy practice

What You'll Get In Return

At UFS Healthcare, we invest in our people because we know great healthcare starts with great teams.

You'll enjoy:

• Competitive salary package
• Paid overtime or Time in Lieu options
• Flexible work arrangements
• Rostered Days Off (RDOs)
• Ongoing professional development opportunities
• Career progression across one of Victoria's largest regional pharmacy networks
• Staff discounts across pharmacy, medical and eyecare services
• A supportive and collaborative team culture
• The opportunity to make a genuine difference in your community

Most importantly, you'll work for an organisation where your clinical expertise directly contributes to better health outcomes for the people we serve.

Why UFS Healthcare?

When you join UFS, you're joining one of regional Victoria's most respected healthcare providers.

We proudly:

• Operate 19 pharmacies across western Victoria
• Deliver healthcare services through four medical centres
• Provide free non-emergency medical care through the Ballarat Urgent Care Clinic
• Offer comprehensive optical services through UFS Eye Care
• Reinvest profits back into healthcare services and community outcomes

Our people are united by a common purpose: improving the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Ready to Build a Career with Purpose?

If you're looking for more than just another pharmacy role and want the opportunity to deliver meaningful healthcare, grow your career, and make a positive impact every day, we'd love to hear from you.