Pharmacy Technician Team Leader

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Medical

Reference: 60292

**Australia’s First Ever Cardiac Hospital Now Welcoming Patients**

As a **Monash Health** hospital, the **Victorian Heart Hospital** features a unique, holistic model of care with first ever cardiac services to provide tailored cardiovascular care for all Victorians, and specialised life-saving procedures for our community. Australia’s only cardiac facility, housing world-ranking **Monash University **and the **Victorian Heart Institute, **represents a powerful model of collaboration, innovation and excellence. Combining world-class clinical care, research, education and training, all in the same facility, the heart hospital is positioned to change the story of cardiovascular disease and accelerate its global reputation. The only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, it also sets a new international benchmark for cardiac hospital design in a purpose-built facility with access to landscaped spaces exuding calm and tranquillity, to enhance the patient experience and positively impact clinical outcomes.

**Pharmacy Technician Team Leader, Grade 4**

By joining Monash Health’s pharmacy team as our **Grade 4 Pharmacy Technician Team Leader**, you will be welcomed into a positive and supportive environment, passionate about delivering cardiac care to a diverse and growing local community. The career opportunities are endless with access to education support within a tertiary hospital.

This is truly an exciting new opportunity for an outstanding and experienced hospital pharmacy technician to join our pharmacy team to manage, mentor and collaboratively develop the pharmacy technician services at the **Victorian Heart Hospital** and across the Monash Health network.

**A day in the life**

We guarantee that no two days will be the same.

As the **Victorian Heart Hospital** Pharmacy Distribution Technician Team Leader, you will work closely with the broader **Victorian Heart Hospital** Pharmacy team to provide best practice medication management and pharmacy services to patients, carers, clients and health care professionals.

You will lead the pharmacy technician/support staff team at the heart hospital, ensuring the pursuit of excellence and performance improvement in quality and safety, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and employee engagement. You will provide oversight, support and performance enhancement for pharmacy technicians and porters allocated to the heart hospital, and assist with technician management and support at other sites as required.

**Full time ongoing positions are an 8-hour shift per day, Monday to Friday.** Our full-time employees accrue a day off every four weeks. The successful person will be required to work some late shifts and weekends/public holidays.

**What You Need**

Working closely with the Distribution & Medicine Supply Team Leader Pharmacist and the Assistant Deputy Director of Pharmacy - Victorian Heart Hospital, you will bring you will bring the following experience and knowledge to the role (italics indicates desirable):

- Demonstrated proven full-time experience as a qualified hospital pharmacy technician
- Completed Certificate IV in Hospital/Health Services Pharmacy Support, or equivalent
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and accountability across all general technician tasks (dispensing, inpatient supply, imprest, Schedule 8/4D supply)
- _ Ability to work in specialised areas such as PBS management, pharmaceutical purchasing and compounding_
- Management experience in areas such as rostering, professional development and performance enhancement
- Experience or education in supervision, training and mentoring of other pharmacy technicians
- Australian working rights

On a personal level, you will demonstrate:

- Leadership, negotiation and decision-making skills
- A history of working effectively with peers in pharmacy and inter-professional teams
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A commitment to continued professional development and education
- A proactive, constructive and creative approach to problem solving for individual patients and service development

**Monash Health’s Victorian Heart Hospital**

Monash Health is a **_great_** **place to work. We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and are committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and iCare values.

**World-leading Cardiac Facility featuring**:

- Architecturally designed sustainable building, filled with colour, natural light and space
- New model of cardiac care in the delivery of patient centred excellence
- Cutting edge state-of-the-art technology and on-site education to facilita