Description:
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is a world class specialist hospital in eye and ear care providing services across Victoria. As Australia’s only specialist eye, ear, nose and throat hospital, the Eye and Ear has been providing care for the senses for over 160 years. The Eye and Ear has almost 90 different outpatient clinics for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of vision and hearing loss and provides a 24-hour emergency eye and ear, nose and throat service. Every year the Eye and Ear cares for nearly 200,000 patients, with over 136,000 outpatients, over 42,000 emergency patients and over 14,000 inpatients. The hospital recently completed a major redevelopment to create a modern internal structure and to improve access for patients, visitors and staff.
Our Vision
We will inspire and advance specialist eye and ENT care
Our Mission
We improve health and wellbeing outcomes through excellence in:
1. Clinical Care
2. Teaching
3. Education
4. Research
5. Innovation
Our Values - Integrity, Inclusive and Accessible Care, Collaboration, Excellence
About Role
Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Grade 3
Full time permanent position (40 hours/week with rostered day off) and tax effective salary packaging East Melbourne location, short walk to the CBD
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has a permanent full time position available in our friendly pharmacy team for a Grade 3 Senior Clinical Pharmacist to oversee clinical pharmacy services and operations for our specialist hospital. This position offers an excellent opportunity to further develop clinical, organisational and people skills in a niche specialist public hospital setting. The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear hospital has recently completed a major redevelopment including a brand new pharmacy department and aseptic suite.
This position reports to the Director of Pharmacy and is responsible for ensuring that clinical pharmacy services and operations are effective, efficient, patient-centred and meet legislative, hospital policy and best practice requirements. Leading and developing our team of 8 clinical pharmacists, the successful candidate will set the strategy for our clinical services and ensure clinical indicators meet KPIs and accreditation standards. The Senior Clinical Pharmacist will bring innovation to the department through improvement activities, conduct clinical pharmacist team and individual meetings, support education, represent the Pharmacy department at committee meetings and coordinate the on-call pharmacy roster.
Our clinical pharmacy service encompasses an inpatient ward, pharmacist led specialist clinics and a busy ED based pharmacy service. With a medication reconciliation and partnered charting service, ongoing training & development, medication safety, antimicrobial stewardship, drug usage evaluation and electronic medication management though Cerner, we support a highly specialised and niche clinical hospital. Responsible for clinical service planning, design and expansion plus the recruitment, training and onboarding of our clinical pharmacists, this is an excellent leadership opportunity.
We are looking for someone to join our friendly team in making a difference to the lives of thousands of our patients and their loved ones who has:
- Registration as a pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia (no restrictions)
- Significant experience working as a clinical pharmacist in an Australian public hospital
- Proficient in medicines information retrieval to support clinical practice and medicines evaluation
- Leadership, people management and decision making skills and excellent organisational and communication skills
- A commitment to continuous quality improvement, patient-centred care and professional practice
- An interest in the specialist fields of ophthalmology, audiology and otology as well as excellent general clinical skills to support our specialist medical team
- Prior ClinCAT® evaluator training and familiarity with Merlin® pharmacy and CERNER® medication management software is highly desirable but not essential.
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Application closes at 22/05/2025 11:59pm
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, a working with children check (if applicable) and evidence of vaccination status.
All staff must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (3 doses) and for clinical staff, patient facing staff and staff working in clinical areas, it is a mandatory requirement to provide evidence of a current influenza vaccination.
Centrally located, close to public transport and a short walk to the CBD, we offer considerable employee benefits, including salary packaging, subsidised car parking as well as educational support
The Eye and Ear is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a work environment free from harassment or discrimination and to promoting cultural diversity and awareness in the workplace.
The Eye and Ear is a smoke free environment.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
At The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, we are committed to supporting people with disability to gain employment and develop their careers; we encourage you to apply. If you would like further information about this role, please contact the hiring manager or the people and culture department to discuss.