Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
- Prepare, dispense and supply medicines from a prescription under the supervision of a pharmacist for checking and authorisation by a pharmacist.
- Assist Pharmacists in the preparation, dispensing and distribution of controlled drugs, including maintenance of records and legislated stock counts.
- Assist in inventory management including maintain and review stock levels of scheduled and unscheduled medicines and consumables, receiving, storage, distribution, stocktake of medicines, stock rotation and expiry date monitoring.
- Assist in the effective and efficient storage of pharmaceutical items within the Logan and Beaudesert Hospitals, including Palen Creek Correctional Facilities.
- Ensure timely delivery of pharmaceutical items throughout Logan and Beaudesert Hospitals, including Palen Creek Correctional Facilities.
- Repack and label pharmaceuticals for use in hospital areas including Palen Creek Correctional Facilities in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Good Manufacturing Practice.
- Participate in the identification, development and implementation of quality and service improvement activities that enhance the delivery of pharmacy services within the Logan-Beaudesert Hospital Facilities.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 (PDF) and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF))
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
