Senior Pharmacist Team Leader

Job no: 918248

Work type: Full time

Location: Adelaide CBD

Categories: Allied and Scientific Health

Central Adelaide Local Health Network

Statewide – SA Pharmacy

• Salary: AHP3 - $108, $116,216.00 p.a. + Superannuation & Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Various Locations SA
• Full Time, Contracted Role up to 1 Jan 2027

About the role

As a Pharmacy Team Leader, you will play a key leadership role in delivering a high-quality and patient-focused pharmacy service. You will lead and mentor a team of pharmacists, technicians, assistants, and administrative staff to ensure excellence in medication management and compliance with all relevant directives, policies, and guidelines. Working in close collaboration with clinicians and service units, you will act as a trusted point of contact for pharmacy-related matters, helping to optimise clinical outcomes and support safe, cost-effective drug therapy across the organisation.

This position offers the opportunity to shape service delivery through strong leadership, staff development, and innovation. You will provide training, supervision, and performance development to your team, while also contributing to departmental goals through complex and high-level pharmacy practice. Working closely with fellow team leaders and Deputy Directors of Pharmacy, you will uphold Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) Standards of Practice, ensuring that legal and professional standards are met. Your leadership will directly support the delivery of safe, efficient, and high-quality care that enhances patient wellbeing and strengthens the pharmacy service as a whole.

About You

You are an experienced and motivated Pharmacy professional with a passion for leadership, innovation, and excellence in clinical service delivery. You bring extensive experience in hospital pharmacy practice and thrive in a dynamic healthcare environment where collaboration, problem-solving, and continuous improvement are key. Your leadership, communication, and analytical strengths enable you to guide others while ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Qualifications and Registration – Hold a Bachelor of Pharmacy (or equivalent) and be registered, or eligible for registration, with the Pharmacy Board of Australia.
• Leadership and Collaboration – Proven ability to lead, supervise, and mentor pharmacy and support staff, while fostering strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• Analytical and Organisational Skills – Highly developed problem-solving, research, and time management abilities, with strong attention to detail and the capacity to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Professional Knowledge and Adaptability – Extensive experience in hospital pharmacy practice, with sound knowledge of professional standards, change management, and a flexible, resilient approach to improving service delivery.

About us

Statewide Clinical Support Services (SCSS) is a unique public healthcare organisation that serves health consumers and provides specialist clinical services to the health system in South Australia. SCSS encompasses BreastScreen SA, SA Dental, SA Medical Imaging, SA Pathology, and SA Pharmacy. Come and work with us to improve the health and well-being of South Australians, across all age groups and at any time of their life or health need.

What we offer

• Attractive salary packaging available
• Strong community minded culture and values providing world class care to South Australians
• Opportunity for movement across the SA Health system: There are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career at one of our many metropolitan or regional sites

Diversity and inclusion:

Statewide supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Application Information:

• Please refer to the role description for essential educational/vocational qualifications that may be required.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and compliant Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Please note that unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies or third parties will not be accepted for this position.

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Enquiries to:

Balvinder Kaur Saini

Position: Business and Administration Manager

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Application Closing Date

11:55 pm Friday 31st October 2025

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Advertised: 17 Oct 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time

Applications close: 31 Oct 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time