Pharmacy Technician - Bendigo, Australia - Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health

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Bendigo, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Location:
North West Region | Bendigo

Job type:
Not provided

Organisation:
Bendigo Health

Salary:
Salary not specified

Occupation:
Health and Allied Health

Reference: 15333

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our Pharmacy team as a Pharmacy Technician on a full-time or part-time, ongoing basis.

Work in an environment that offers:

An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
A dynamic and growing health service that embraces new technologies
A new facility with a diverse patient base

The Position

Position Title:
Pharmacy Technician

Classification:
TF- TH6

Salary per hour (exc. super): $2,132.60-$2, Super + Salary Packaging

Hours per fortnight:
Up to 80 hours for full-time (includes ADO) and/or part-time hours

Employment Status:
Permanent

Other requirements:
COVID-19 Vaccination

Role Description
The successful applicants will be working closely with a team of pharmacists, dispensing medications for patients at Bendigo Health. Duties will include ordering, stock control, re-filling of stock on wards, assistance with dispensing and some clerical duties. Experience in hospital or community pharmacy is highly desirable, as well as competent computer skills and excellent interpersonal skills.

Applicants must have completed or be willing to complete the Hospital Pharmacy Technicians course - Certificate III in Hospital/Health Services Pharmacy Support.

The Team
The Pharmacy Department's core activities are central to medication supply, medication information and medication safety at Bendigo Health.

The Pharmacy team supports effective medication management by both hospital staff (doctors, nurses, allied health) and hospital inpatients, outpatients as well as to specific groups of community patients.

The Pharmacy Department services Bendigo Health except for residential services. All pharmacy services are managed from the hospital campus and incorporates services to the Anne Caudle Centre campus.

Ward pharmacists service Medical, Surgical, Orthopaedic, Intensive Care and Rehabilitation Wards and are available on a referral basis to other wards.

Bendigo Health

With more than 4,500 staff and volunteers and covering an area a quarter of the size of Victoria, Bendigo Health, is an expanding regional health service offering the advantages of city life combined with the beauty and freedom that comes from living in a regional area.

Bendigo Health is a 700 bed service that treats more than 45,000 inpatients, triages more than 65,000 emergency attendees and welcomes more than 1,600 new born babies in a year.

In addition more than 15,000 operations are performed in our operating theatres and more than 100,000 occasions of services are provided in our clinics to outpatients.

The organisation provides services in emergency, maternity, women's health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, psychiatric care, community dental, hospice/palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.

With our main campus based in Bendigo, our services extend throughout the Loddon Mallee with sites in areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

Demand on services is increasing rapidly with Bendigo being one of Victoria's fastest growing regional cities.

Bendigo Region
Bendigo is one of Victoria's fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in.

Bendigo provides services for the region's population of over 300,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities.

We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

Diversity and Inclusion
Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.