Lead Clinical Pharmacy Care for Older Persons

Join the pharmacy team at Princess Alexandra Hospital delivering high-level clinical services within the innovative Geriatric Evaluation Management and Rehabilitation Hospital in the Home (GEMRHITH) virtual ward. This senior role blends advanced clinical practice, home visiting services, interprofessional collaboration and service improvement - supporting older patients across hospital and community settings

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Pharmacist within the GEMRHITH virtual ward, you will deliver expert clinical pharmacy services to older persons receiving hospital level care in their homes. Working across hospital and community environments (including Eight Mile Plains Community Health Centre), you will be a key member of a highly functioning multidisciplinary team.

You will:

• Deliver advanced, evidence-based clinical pharmacy services including medication assessment, intervention, review and discharge planning within a virtual inpatient model
• Conduct regular home visits within a defined catchment area to support safe, patient-centred medication management
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and education to HP3 pharmacists, interns, students and Allied Health Assistants
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement, research, service development and evidence-based protocol advancement across geriatric medicine, pharmacy and community oral health services

About you:

You are an experienced clinical pharmacist with a passion for older persons' medicine and delivering care beyond traditional hospital walls.

You will demonstrate:

• High-level clinical expertise in geriatric pharmacotherapy and complex medication management
• Strong ability to prioritise, manage and discharge patients in a dynamic, high-acuity environment
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
• Proven leadership capability in supervising, mentoring and developing less experienced clinicians and students

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.

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)
  
  MS03676879 - Role Description (PDF)