Pharmacist - Infectious Disease/antimicrobial

**Pharmacist - Infectious Disease/Antimicrobial Stewardship & Quality and Safe Use of Medicines**

**Job Number**:WAI27077**

**Where you’ll be working**:Waikato Hospital

**The details**:Permanent Full time - 40 hours per week

**Salary details**:non-designated pharmacist scale dependent on skills, qualifications and experience.**An exciting new position has become available with dedicated time for infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship.**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**
- This an opportunity to further develop your knowledge and expertise in the pharmacological management of infections, spending approximately half of your time on this area of work. Spend the other half of your time doing a variety of work undertaken by the Quality and Safe Use of Medicines team. This may include medicine information, guidelines or prescriber orientation. Learn about or further develop your skills in these areas and contribute to both individual patient care and district-wide medicine management support.
- You will have the opportunity to work alongside the infectious diseases/AMS pharmacist, the multi-disciplinary infectious diseases team and experienced pharmacy staff across the pharmacy service. Grow your skills and knowledge while having support.- Be involved in the management of patients with infectious diseases.-
- Contribute to the development and implementation of antimicrobial stewardship initiatives, ensuring the judicious use of these life-saving medications.-
- Use or develop your medicine information and guideline writing skills.-
- Build your experience through exposure to different services and tasks in a busy tertiary hospital.-
- Maintain core pharmacy skills through working in the dispensary.**Click here** to view the position description.**
- (Please note position descriptions can only be viewed on the Te Whatu Ora - Waikato website.)_

**Ko o tatou painga | Our Benefits**
- Keen to experience a variety of different tasks and learning opportunities?- Play a role in supporting effective antimicrobial use.-
- Help to save lives by contributing to reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance.-
- Improve the quality of life for patients with complex infectious diseases.-
- Experience different aspects of working as a pharmacist in a tertiary hospital.-
- Make a difference in the health and wellbeing of patients in the Waikato district.**Mōu | About you**
- Skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for the role:
- A NZ registered pharmacist, preferably with 2 to 5 years' hospital pharmacy experience:- Strong clinical skills and a passion to learn-
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills-
- Good organisational skills-
- Flexible approach to work**Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service**- Pharmacy Services at Waikato Hospital provides services to the hospital and to six smaller rural hospitals and care units across the Waikato region.-
- The pharmacy service is divided into five services: Clinical Services, Dispensary and Supply, Oncology, Haematology and Compounding Service, Quality and Safe Use of Medicines and our onsite community pharmacy service (Pharmacy on Meade).-
- The multi-disciplinary Infectious Diseases Team provides a consultation service for Waikato Hospital as well as providing other services such as clinics.**Ko ngaa hua o te noho ki roto o Waikato, te mahi hoki ki Te Whatu Ora, Waikato | The Benefits of living in Waikato and working for Te Whatu Ora, Waikato**
- Located in the heart of the mighty Waikato, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, Waikato operates over a number of sites, Hamilton City our main campus and smaller community-based hospitals across our region. Hamilton City has easy access to beaches and mountains, so if your interests range from a host of water sports, mountain biking to vineyard lunches, the area has something for you right on your doorstep. To discover more about our stunning area, please **click here**.
- As part of our Health NZ, Waikato family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities alongside our Health NZ, Waikato benefits and staff discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

**He whare Manawanui, He whare Koronga | A committed workspace, a workspace with purpose**
- We are committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

**Tō mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai | Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion**

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