Pharmacist

Overview

Pharmacist role at Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD).

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (Up to 16/10/2026)

Location: Nepean Hospital

Remuneration: $40.60 - $60.10 per hour

Hours Per Week: 24

Position Classification: Pharmacist Grade 1/2

Requisition ID: REQ603109

Applications Close: 28/09/2025

CORE Values: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, and Empowerment.

About NBMLHD

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, providing a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region. Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital offering tertiary referral services across emergency care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The campus aims to support communities within and outside Sydney's western suburbs with world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

What You Will Do

You will provide clinical pharmacy services as an integral member of the patient care team, ensuring best practice in therapeutics and medication accuracy during transitions of care. You will participate in after-hours and on-call pharmacy services and rostered afternoon shifts. Responsibilities include responding to enquiries, supplying drug information to patients and carers, preparing in-service lectures, reviewing current literature, and maintaining service statistics. You will be involved in manufacturing sterile and non-sterile products not commercially available, participating in aseptic dispensing and quality control, supervising packaging and labeling, and maintaining compliance with legal and departmental standards. In the pre-packaging area, you will oversee accurate assembly and documentation of packaged items.

If you are proactive and detail-oriented, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic hospital environment.

Responsibilities

• Respond to enquiries with professionalism and courtesy
• Provide drug information to patients and carers
• Prepare in-service lectures and review current literature
• Maintain service statistics
• Manufacture sterile and non-sterile products not commercially available
• Participate in aseptic dispensing and quality control
• Supervise packaging and labeling
• Ensure compliance with legal and departmental standards
• Oversee accurate assembly and documentation in the pre-packaging area

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Pharmacy and current registration with AHPRA
• Post-graduate clinical experience in a health care setting
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads, work independently and in an inter-professional team
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Record of ongoing professional development
• Computer literacy with Microsoft Office and Pharmacy Inventory/Dispensing programs

Benefits

• Salary packaging opportunities
• Novated Leasing
• Education opportunities through Education Training Service (over 110 courses per year)
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family
• Fitness Passport

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Tertiary qualifications in Pharmacy and current AHPRA registration
• Postgraduate clinical experience in a health care setting
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads and work in an inter-professional team
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Computer literacy with Microsoft Office and Pharmacy Inventory/Dispensing programs

Employment of a temporary visa holder may occur only if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia is identified and must not exceed visa duration/conditions.

Need more information?

• Position Description
• Applying for this position – more information

For role related queries, contact Ruby Samson at Ruby.Samson@health.nsw.gov.au

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