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Pharmacy Assistant - Team Lead
Coopers Plains
Inspire, Lead and Make a Difference in Hospital Pharmacy!
Join Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital as a Permanent Full-Time Pharmacy Assistant Team Lead and play a key leadership role in delivering safe, efficient and high-quality pharmacy services. Lead a skilled pharmacy assistant team, support innovative medicines management practices and help drive service improvement while contributing to outstanding patient care.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Full-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | CA5 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS07688034 |
| Closing date | 30-Jul-2026 |
| Job duration | Permanent full-time |
| Contact person | Natalie Tasker / Helender Singh |
| Contact details | (07) 3182 6338 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As the Pharmacy Assistant Team Lead, you will provide operational leadership to the pharmacy assistant workforce while supporting pharmacists in delivering safe and effective medicines management services. You'll combine your advanced technical expertise with strong people leadership to ensure the pharmacy service continues to deliver exceptional outcomes for patients and the multidisciplinary team.
In this role you will:
- Lead and coordinate the daily activities, rostering and development of the pharmacy assistant team.
- Support medicines distribution, dispensing, inventory management and electronic imprest systems.
- Drive quality improvement initiatives, service innovation and operational efficiencies.
- Collaborate with pharmacists and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, patient-focused pharmacy services.
About you:
You're an experienced hospital pharmacy professional who enjoys leading people, improving services and creating positive outcomes. You thrive in a fast-paced healthcare environment and bring both technical expertise and strong leadership skills to your role.
You will bring:
- Certificate IV in Hospital/Health Services Pharmacy Support (or equivalent) with required imprest qualification.
- Demonstrated leadership experience with the ability to mentor, coach and support staff performance.
- Strong knowledge of hospital pharmacy operations, medicines management and quality improvement.
- Excellent communication, organisational and stakeholder engagement skills with a collaborative approach.
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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:
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:
The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.
We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.
QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!
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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