Advanced Pharmacist - NICU & Women's

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley; Wellington; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora at Wellington Regional Hospital invites applications for an Advanced Pharmacist - Neonates and Consult to Women's wards. This permanent, full-time role (40 hours) includes Saturdays, public holidays and on-call on a rostered basis.

The Advanced Pharmacist provides a clinical service to the neonatal inpatient area and a consult service to the women's ward, supporting education and safety initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experienced hospital pharmacist with at least 5 years of clinical practice.
• NZ registration with a valid APC or eligible to register.

Responsibilities

• Formulate neonatal TPN prescriptions and provide parent education.
• Educate doctors and nurses and participate in medication safety projects.
• Undertake medication chart reviews and contribute to service improvement.
• Support leadership/management of the Pharmacy service and teach others.
• Cover operational areas within pharmacy as needed.

Job description

Location: Wellington Regional Hospital Contract: Permanent, full-time Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity exists for experienced pharmacists to join our team as Advanced Pharmacist - Neonates and Consult to Women's wards, permanent position, full-time (40 hours per week) with Saturdays, Public holidays and on-call on a rostered basis.

The tertiary level Neonatal Care Unit at Wellington Regional Hospital serves the Central Region in NZ, as well as taking neonates from other NICU units across the country.

The Advanced Pharmacist Neonates and Women's position provides a clinical pharmacy service to the neonatal inpatient area and provides clinical pharmacy advice as a consult service to the women's ward.

Responsibilities include:

• formulating neonatal TPN prescriptions, providing parent education, providing education to doctors and nurses, assisting in medication safety projects and undertaking medication chart reviews.
• contributing to the leadership and management of the Pharmacy service, supporting direct clinical and technical practice as well as involvement in teaching others, and participation in whole of service improvement.

This position also provides some cover to the operational areas within pharmacy.

As part of the pharmacy clinical team, other responsibilities include contributing to the leadership and management of the Pharmacy service, supporting direct clinical and technical practice as well as involvement in teaching others, and participation in whole of service improvement.

Although the role has no direct reports it is expected that the person supports the activities of junior pharmacists, interns / trainees and other staff.

About the Team/Service Location

The pharmacy team is well respected by clinicians, nursing staff, and senior management across the organisation, and is constantly looking at ways to improve the service and care it delivers.

We provide a comprehensive pharmacy service throughout to the Capital Coast and Hutt Valley District, which includes a clinical service, dispensary & logistics service, and a quality & risk service. There is also an aseptic production service at Capital & Coast Hospitals (Wellington & Kenepuru). Through these services, we aim to improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing, supply and distribution of medicines throughout the Capital Coast and Hutt Valley District.

Our teams value professional growth, and emphasises clinical development and medicines optimisation for our patients.

About you

• We want to hear from you if you are an experienced hospital pharmacist, with at least 5 years' clinical practice and want to take the next step in your hospital career.
• Previous experience in the neonatal setting is highly desirable.
• You will be self-motivated with a broad clinical experience, be able to work autonomously and innovatively, as well as having the ability to form good working relationships with the multidisciplinary team.
• You will need to be registered as a pharmacist in NZ with a valid APC, or eligible to register.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is 'the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Our people are at the heart of everything we do.

Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

We embrace diversity and welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability.

We are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact [e-mail]

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advertisement.