Join Queensland Health as a Pharmacy Educator – Inspire, Educate, Lead!

Temporary Part-time (38 hours per fortnight) opportunity based at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Join Metro South Health’s Medical Education Unit and play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality medication management education for junior medical staff.

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Your new role:

As the Pharmacy Educator within the Medical Education Unit (MEU), you'll coordinate, deliver, and evaluate innovative and evidence-based education programs focused on medication safety and management for prevocational doctors. You will collaborate closely with clinical and educational leaders to strengthen safe prescribing practices and integrate education with quality and safety initiatives by:

• Designing and implementing engaging, interactive learning programs for interns and residents.
• Leading initiatives that align with the Australian Medical Council's National Prevocational Framework.
• Providing expert advice and guidance on medication management across the hospital.
• Collaborating with pharmacy and medical leadership to embed education into patient safety and quality improvement programs.
• Translating research and evidence into practical learning to enhance safe medication use within a digital hospital environment (ieMR).

About you:

You are a passionate and forward-thinking pharmacist with a genuine interest in education, clinical excellence, and the safe use of medicines. You will bring a collaborative approach and high-level communication skills, together with:

• Current registration as a Pharmacist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• A Bachelor of Pharmacy (postgraduate qualifications highly regarded).
• Advanced knowledge in clinical pharmacy and quality use of medicines.
• Proven ability to design and deliver education programs and training workshops.
• Experience with ieMR and digital hospital medication systems.
• Strong leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication, with the ability to engage diverse clinical teams.

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What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to influence and improve medication safety education across a major tertiary hospital.
• A supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team environment.
• Access to professional mentorship and leadership development programs.
• Flexible working arrangements that support work–life balance.
• A diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace culture where your ideas matter.
• 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.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

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.

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 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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS11668848_Role Description (PDF)