Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS) is seeking an experienced pharmacist to join our team and provide high-level clinical pharmacy services within our high acuity and complex critical care treatment areas, including intensive care and high dependency units.

Job details

About the Team

CHQ Pharmacy is dedicated to providing and supporting high quality clinical and medication management services to the children and young people of CHQ. The pharmacy service has a staff of approximately 110, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, administrative staff and support staff. The pharmacy team provides services to inpatients, outpatients, hospital in the home, cancer care services, poisons information, aseptic compounding, clinical trials along with safety, quality and governance. 

About the Role

• Deliver high level clinical pharmacy services within a variety of complex critical care caseloads in an acute hospital setting; predominantly to patients admitted to hospital but may also include provision of services in outpatient pharmacy clinics.
• Exercise independent judgement and problem-solving skills, in matters beyond routine practice, using valid and reliable evidence, with infrequent clinical practice supervision.
• Provide high level advice and support to the multidisciplinary team, and clients.
• Actively participate in initiating, developing and implementing service improvement activities to enhance the delivery of clinical pharmacy services and multidisciplinary care. This will include initiation of research and quality improvement activities, and contribution to development of guidelines, procedures and protocols to support the continuum of care.
• Guide, mentor and supervise less experienced pharmacy practitioners, support staff, and provide education to work experience or observational pharmacy students.
• Register, maintain and prepare records of patient interaction as well as workload measurement statistics, to facilitate the analysis of service trends.
• Participate in and contribute to workforce planning to meet service requirements.

 About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; Please review the Role Description and Application Pack for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 647916 - HP4 Critical Care - RD (PDF, 640KB)
  Role Description
  
  CHQ_Applicant Toolkit_2025 (PDF, 862KB)
  Application Kit
  
  CHQ_Information for Applicants_2025 (PDF, 837KB)
  Information Package for Applicants