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Clinical Assistant Senior - Cancer Services
Woolloongabba
Advance Your Pharmacy Career in Cancer Services. Join a collaborative team delivering specialised medicines management and patient care.
Join the Cancer Services Pharmacy team at Princess Alexandra Hospital and play an important role in supporting the delivery of specialised cancer treatments. Working alongside pharmacists and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, you'll contribute to safe medicines management, sterile production services, inventory management and patient-focused care across Metro South Health.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent,Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time,Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | CA4 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS07686366 |
| Closing date | 08-Jul-2026 |
| Job duration | 12 Months |
| Contact person | Sarah Frier |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 5754 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Clinical Assistant Senior – Cancer Services, you will provide advanced pharmacy support services that contribute to the safe and effective delivery of cancer treatments across Princess Alexandra Hospital and Metro South Health. Working within a highly specialised pharmacy environment, you will collaborate closely with pharmacists and multidisciplinary teams to support patient care, medication management and sterile production services. Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting medication dispensing, preparation and electronic medication management systems.
- Managing medicine inventory, including high-cost cancer therapies and specialised pharmacy stock.
- Compounding sterile and non-sterile products in accordance with professional standards and Good Manufacturing Practice requirements.
- Contributing to quality improve
About you:
You are a motivated and detail-oriented pharmacy professional who thrives in a collaborative healthcare environment. You are committed to delivering safe, high-quality services and take pride in supporting positive outcomes for patients receiving cancer treatment. You will demonstrate:
- Strong customer focus with the ability to respond to patient and stakeholder needs in a professional and timely manner.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
- Advanced organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks, manage competing demands and maintain accuracy.
- A commitment to quality, safety and continuous improvement, supported by sound knowledge of pharmacy standards and best practice.
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What we can offer you:
- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- 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.
About us:
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.
We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.
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.
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