Join Queensland’s Specialist VAD Pharmacy Service

Bring your pharmacy expertise to a collaborative team delivering safe, compassionate care

About This Role

Your new role

As a Senior Clinical Pharmacist Within QVAD Pharmacy, You Will Provide Senior Pharmacy Services And Expert Clinical Support To Health Practitioners And Patients Accessing VAD.

Working As Part Of a Highly Collaborative Interprofessional Team, You Will

- Deliver evidence-based clinical pharmacy and VAD services, including clinical assessment, intervention, medication reviews, dispensing and patient education.
- Provide clinical advice and increasingly independent clinical judgement in complex VAD cases, supporting authorised practitioners with medication management in accordance with best practice and the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021 (Qld).
- Contribute to the development of clinical practices, policies, protocols, quality improvement initiatives and research that enhance VAD pharmacy services and patient care.
- Provide education, supervision and support to less experienced pharmacists, students and support staff, while collaborating with the statewide QVAD clinical team and broader multidisciplinary service.

About You You will be an experienced pharmacist who combines strong clinical capability with sound judgement, compassionate communication and a commitment to high-quality patient-centred care. You will bring:

- Demonstrated high-level knowledge, expertise and skill in delivering clinical pharmacy services to patients receiving VAD care within community, public or private healthcare settings.
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia (AHPRA) is required. Experience in VAD, palliative care, end-of-life care,



community services and/or Home Medicine Reviews or Residential Medication Management Reviews is highly desirable
- The ability to manage complex clinical workloads, rapidly prioritise competing demands and support effective patient management and discharge planning in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including the ability to supervise and support less experienced practitioners and students, together with experience initiating, planning and evaluating service improvement initiatives.

What We Can Offer You

- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.





Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support and Pharmacy Service Metro South Health hosts the Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support Service (QVAD-Support) and the Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Pharmacy Service (QVAD-Pharmacy) on behalf of Queensland Health. Voluntary assisted dying services are co-designed in partnership Metro South Health, Community and Oral Health Services, and the Voluntary Assisted Dying Unit within Queensland Health. Services are delivered by clinical leaders specialising in pharmacy and end-of-life care, supporting the provision of safe, high-quality, and compassionate voluntary assisted dying processes.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is significant to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

📌 Clinical Pharmacist - Senior (Queensland)
🏢 South West Hospital and Health Service
📍 Queensland