Senior Pharmacist - Community Services

Metro South Health; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly environment

Teaching and research excellence

Career development opportunities

Public health system benefits

Job summary

Metro South Health is seeking a Senior Community Services Pharmacist to deliver high-quality, evidence-based pharmacy services across community settings. You will work with home visits, outpatient clinics and residential care within a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and patient-centred care.

You will provide clinical leadership, supervise junior staff, and contribute to service improvements, education, and discharge planning.

Qualifications

• Evidence-based clinical pharmacy services across home visits, outpatient clinics, and community settings.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and other healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes.
• Supervision and support of junior practitioners and students, and involvement in service development.
• Ability to deliver patient-centred care with strong clinical judgement and time management.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive pharmacy clinical services in home visits, outpatient clinics, residential care and community settings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, community pharmacies and GPs to ensure continuity of care.
• Contribute to development of clinical practices, protocols and service improvements.
• Provide clinical advice, education and supervision to less experienced clinicians and students.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Leadership

Communication skills

Education

Pharmacist registration

Job description

Make a meaningful difference in community healthcare as a Senior Community Services Pharmacist.

Join Metro South Health's Community and Oral Health Services Pharmacy team to deliver evidence-based, patient-centred care, support multidisciplinary teams and help shape the future of community pharmacy services.

Your New Role

As a Senior Community Services Pharmacist with Metro South Health, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based pharmacy services to patients across community-based multidisciplinary teams, supporting safe, effective and patient-centred care.

• Provide comprehensive pharmacy clinical services across home visits, outpatient clinics, residential care and community settings, including medication assessment, intervention, review and discharge planning.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, community pharmacies, general practitioners and other healthcare providers to support continuity of care and improve patient outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of clinical practices, protocols and service improvement initiatives that enhance the quality and effectiveness of community pharmacy services.
• Provide clinical advice, education, supervision and support to less experienced clinicians, students and support staff, while contributing to the ongoing development of the service.

About you

You are an experienced pharmacist with strong clinical expertise, a collaborative approach and a commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in community settings.

• Demonstrated high-level knowledge, expertise and skills in delivering pharmacy clinical services to patients in home and outpatient settings.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to provide clinical advice, work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and manage conflict constructively.
• Strong clinical judgement and time management skills, with the ability to manage complex patient care, prioritise competing demands and coordinate effective discharge planning.
• Demonstrated leadership and initiative, including the ability to supervise and support junior practitioners and students, and develop, implement and evaluate service improvement initiatives.

What We Can Offer You

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us

The clinical pharmacist service within the directorate operates under flexible care arrangements where the pharmacist will work across the directorate and at various locations to improve access to comprehensive pharmaceutical review for patients interacting with COHS programs. The objectives, location, and timeframes for review will be patient dependent with a focus on the key objective of improving access to comprehensive pharmaceutical care to clients with complex needs interacting with the services in the directorate:

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together .

Occupational group

Health - Nursing