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NHW is seeking an energetic and visionary leader to become our next Deputy Director of Pharmacy.
This key position supports the Director of Pharmacy in overseeing all aspects of our pharmacy service including operations logistics informatics compliance quality workforce development and the provision of pharmacy services to other organisations via interhealth service agreements.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to further develop your leadership capability within a nationallyrecognised rural hospital pharmacy leadership team and to contribute meaningfully to an organisation dedicated to delivering excellent healthcare to the community we are privileged to serve.
As the newly appointed Deputy Director of Pharmacy you will coordinate and lead efforts in optimising our teams use of current & future digital applications extend our established successes in pharmacy intern training to implement training pathways for our pharmacy technicians and pharmacists and act as a key decision maker within your agreed areas of responsibility.
Our Health Service:
Northeast Health Wangaratta (NHW) is the major public hospital & health provider in the Central Hume region in northeast Victoria providing an extensive range of acute subacute aged care and community services. NHW is the major referral centre for patients with complex health needs from Benalla Yarrawonga Beechworth Bright Myrtleford Mansfield and surrounds as well as visitors who require emergency healthcare during their stay in northeast Victoria including the Victorian Alpine resorts and High Country.
Our Pharmacy Team:
Northeast Health Wangarattas Pharmacy Department is a team comprising 20 Pharmacists 3 Interns 9 Pharmacy Technicians & an Administrative staff routinely host Pharmacy Students on placement from all 3 Victorian Pharmacy education programs and from interstate and enjoy national recognition as a centre of excellence in developing skilled earlycareer rural hospital pharmacists.
Our pharmacy services are currently provided internally to departments & wards including Emergency Intensive Care Day Oncology General Medicine Subacute/Rehabilitation General Surgical/Orthopaedics Paediatrics Operating Theatres Dispensary & Hospital in the Home Maternity & Special Care Nursery Day Stay Unit & Haemodialysis Units. We provide Antimicrobial Stewardship & Medication Safety governance andwe also provide pharmacy services to onsite Mental Health inpatients (Kerferd Unit) and Community Mental Health clientsvia an interservice agreement with Albury Wodonga Health / NorthEast & Border Mental Health Service.
At NHW our pharmacy team routinely uses Dedalus Omnicells Automated Medication Cabinets & Controlled Substance Managers Orion Healths Soprano Clinical Information System Alcidions Miya Precision platform SafeScript (Vic and NSW) and MyHealthRecord plus others. We also determine & manage the medication infusion dataset for our fleet of wifienabled BD Medication Infusion Pumps and during 2025 will be implementing Magentus CHARM application. We are looking forward with optimism towards implementation of a Humewide Digital Patient Record following the implementation of a Humewide Patient Administration System (Dedalus & Humewide Access & Flow application (Miya Precision) late last year.
Our Region:
Applying for the role:
NHW does not accept unsolicited applications from recruitment companies
Required Experience:
Director
Full-Time