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About the role

Mater Pharmacy are looking for Pharmacy Assistants and Technicians to join our Clinical Services team on a permanent basis in a full-time or part-time capacity working in one or more roles across Dispensary, Imprest management and Production Services.

Mater Health Services, South-East Queensland comprises a unique collection of two public and four private hospitals caring for over 500,000 patients each year across our South Brisbane, Springfield and Redland campuses. Mater Pharmacy provides a Clinical Hospital Pharmacy service to all hospital inpatient and outpatient areas. This represents a fantastic opportunity to make a positive contribution to the health and wellbeing of Mater patients and to contribute to a strong, unified Clinical Services team.

Salary range:

$31.27 – 35.41 per hour (Operational Officer Level 2-3) plus 11.5% superannuation and access to not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900  + access to many staff benefits! 

What you’ll be doing

You will work in a team with pharmacists, technicians, pharmacy students and other support staff to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality of pharmacy service to optimise outcomes for all patients and customers of Mater. There is the opportunity to apply for a specific role as described below or be trained to work across multiple roles.

Pharmacy Technician – Clinical/Hospital Services

In this role, you will be providing medication supply service to all clinical areas which will include: 

• Assembling and delivering dispensed medications
• Monitoring and maintaining appropriate stock levels in the pharmacy and in clinical area imprest sites across the Mater campus
• cold chain management of refrigerated and frozen medications
• Answering phone calls from both internal and external customers and patients
• Providing responsive customer-focused service

Other rotational roles in this team include:

• PBS claim preparation and pharmacy billing
• Cancer services clinical support including dispensing chemotherapy, assembling pre-meds, oral drugs and prescription management
• Outpatient services clinical support including prescription management and scheduled supply for the Mater Infusion Centre and Mater at Home Hospital in the Home service.
• There may also be the opportunity to work in Inventory Management by purchasing and receiving stock for our multiple retail stores and hospital services.

This role will be based predominantly at our South Brisbane campus with the opportunity to also work at Mater Springfield or Redland from time to time.

Pharmacy Technician – Imprest Service

In this role, you will be providing medication supply and maintenance to a variety of clinical and procedural areas across all Hospitals within the South Brisbane campus:

• Rotating through different areas of the hospitals, covering a wide range of specialities
• Monitoring and maintaining stock levels appropriately
• Efficiently and accurately delivering medications required for patient care
• Management of expiry dates, stock rotation and product availability
• Actioning regular imprest usage reviews and changes
• Providing responsive customer-focused service
• Training fellow team members in all aspects of the imprest role
• Support pharmacy team with operational and administrative tasks 

This role will be based predominantly at our South Brisbane campus with the opportunity to also work at Mater Springfield from time to time.

Production Assistant

In this role you will be responsible for the timely manufacture and delivery of a diverse range of high quality, specialised sterile (including cytotoxic) and non-sterile pharmaceutical products compounded for Mater Health and other Queensland institutions, utilising our purpose-built on-site production facility. This will include:

• Preparing and manufacturing sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical products
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of the Code of Good Manufacturing Practice and compliance with established policy and procedures for maintaining a safe, secure and efficient production service.
• Maintaining required aseptic production competencies by successfully performing annual aseptic technique validation and completion of Chemo Check
• Participating in quality assurance and quality improvement activities to ensure the highest standard of product quality for all clients
• Performing other duties as directed by the Team Leader Production Services
• Participating in the on-call roster to supply urgent medications on weekends and evenings when required

This facility is located at South Brisbane and provides a service to patients of Mater 24/7, 365 days of the year, so there is also the need for some weekend and on-call shifts.

Mater Pharmacy is dedicated to the exceptional care and service of all our patients and customers. We provide a comprehensive suite of pharmacy services and strive to maintain the highest level of care at all times. In addition to Clinical pharmacy Services, we also provide the community with a traditional pharmacy service offering, including a retail front-shop with periodic sales and health promotion events accessible to patients, visitors and staff.

About you

To be considered for this role you will have:

• A professional attitude, effective communication skills and a high level of attention to detail
• Passion for customer service and appreciation of the importance of delivering exceptional service every time
• Professional, hardworking attitude and willing to work cooperatively and effectively with all team members
• Previous relevant work experience is highly desirable
• Completed or be willing to undertake relevant qualifications such as Certificate II or III in Hospital/Community Pharmacy (or equivalent)

Why join us?

Mater is Queensland’s largest and most innovative not-for-profit healthcare service, providing care for almost 700,000 patients a year across a network of 11 hospitals.

We are a leader in healthcare, education and research — and that’s because we employ exceptional people. #MAKEYOURMATERMOVE

• Via salary packaging arrangements, allocate some living expenses directly from your pre-taxable income and ultimately increase your take-home pay
• Access to package meal and entertainment expenses via salary packaging
• Access to leading education and professional development via Mater Education
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and on-site pastoral care teams
• Discounts to local and national business/venues for Dining/Retail/Travel & Accommodation/Other
• Unlimited access to a multitude of discounted fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• Access to on-site, discounted parking
• Discounted food and beverage at various campus cafés and coffee venues

Closing date for applications is 1st January 2025.

Please note, we may contact applications prior to the closing date, please do not hesitate to APPLY NOW!

For further information, please contact Pharmacy Administration on 07 3163 8220.

Mater is committed to the wellbeing of their staff, and it is underpinned by our flexible and remote working policies.

Please Note: We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies at this time and kindly request no contact is made. Only direct applications will be considered.