Senior Pharmacist - Integration Improvement And Liaison

The details: Permanent full time – 40 hours per week

Salary details: Pharmacy Collective Agreement – Designation A

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.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

Are you looking for a new challenge that bridges the gap between community and hospital pharmacy practice? Do you want to play a role in improving patient care at the interface between primary and secondary healthcare?

In this unique and varied role, you will put your community pharmacy experience to great use whilst collaborating with hospital teams. You will be involved in initiatives focussed on medicines safety, improving transitions of care and supporting improved patient health outcomes across the Waikato district.

This role offers you the opportunity to maintain a connection to community pharmacy practice while gaining valuable hospital pharmacy experience. Join our team to work across both worlds and make an impact on patient care.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Key pharmacy contact for resolving questions or issues pertaining to community dispensed hospital prescriptions or patient admissions.
• Contribute to or lead initiatives that support prescribing, medicine management and safety at transitions of care.
• Liaise with relevant community healthcare providers regarding developments and issues of mutual interest.
• Provide orientation and education to new prescribers.

• Clinical service provision to selected clinical or ward areas may be an option.

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Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service

Pharmacy Services at Waikato Hospital provides services to the hospital and to six smaller rural hospitals and care units across the Waikato region. The pharmacy service is divided into five services: Clinical Services, Dispensary and Supply, Oncology, Haematology and Compounding Service, Quality and Safe Use of Medicines (QSUM) and our onsite community pharmacy service (Pharmacy on Meade).

You will be a member of the QSUM team, but as part of the wider pharmacy team you will also interact and work with pharmacy staff in the other teams. There will also be opportunity to work in Waikato Hospital’s community pharmacy (Pharmacy on Meade) and the inpatient dispensary.

Mōu | About you

Skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for the role:

• A NZ registered pharmacist
• At least 5 years previous experience, with preferably both community and hospital pharmacy experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good organisational skills
• Flexible approach to work
• Confidence interacting with a range of health professionals

Working for 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. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

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.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

• We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
• We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

To apply for the role please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 12 December 2024. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Monique Wilson at Monique.wilson@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.