Senior Pharmacy Technician

**Where you’ll be working**: Waikato Hospital, Pharmacy Services

**The details**: Permanent 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday roster with occasional rostered Saturdays.

**Salary details**: step 6 $68,373 step 8 $74,712
- **Training and further learning is encouraged and supported**:

- ** Opportunity to advance to a senior role**:

- ** Join us in an interesting Pharmacy with excellent work life balance**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

Want to be recognised for your amazing community pharmacy talents? Are you a qualified PACT and perhaps a vaccinator as well? Been working at the top of your scope and want to take on a senior role in a professional, interesting pharmacy with excellent work life balance? Training and further learning is encouraged and supported.

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**Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service**

Come at work at Te Whatu Ora Waikato in Pharmacy on Meade within the Waikato hospital campus. A fantastic and exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician keen for a change and a slower pace of work, where your excellent skills and leadership will be recognised.

If you are a New Zealand registered technician with community pharmacy experience, PACT qualified and ideally with vaccinator and retail experience, then we want you You will have a strong customer focus with excellent interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills and love working as part of a team.

On that note, you will also be working as part of a larger pharmacy team also, in particularly supporting your other Senior Pharmacy technician colleagues, so will get to know and contribute your knowledge to other parts of the pharmacy service also. A great role for someone keen to develop their leadership capabilities. Remuneration will sit on the pharmacy technician advanced, designated position scale (steps 6 - 8) to reflect these additional responsibilities.

**Mōu | About you**

Ideally seeking an experienced pharmacy technician (level 5 or 6) to join our Pharmacy Service for this senior role. This position has been put in place to predominantly assist our community pharmacists to lead our community pharmacy service, be a senior member of our team and contribute to the ongoing operation of the hospital based community pharmacy.

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

**Te iwi Ngakaunui - People at Heart**
- Whakamana - Give and earn respect
- Whakaronga - Listen to me; Talk to me
- Mauri Pai - Fair play
- Whakapakari - Growing the good
- Kotahitanga - Stronger together

It is not very often something happens that is big; like, really big. Big to the point that it will touch the lives of every single person in the country. That is what we are talking about here. The provision of Health in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how its run is about to change in a big way.

Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand and Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority will together shape the delivery of Health services in Aotearoa New Zealand for generations to come, and will form the core of a modern and integrated service looking after the needs of all our Whānau.

We are dedicated to achieving health equity for Māori and other priority populations. We are a Crown entity and an active partner in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand is guided by Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to upholding the articles.

Here at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, Waikato we have a team of 8,000 working across the Waikato where everyone plays a vital role in the care of our patients - directly or non-directly. Our vision is Healthy People. Excellent Care.

We are a values-based and inclusive organisation that is committed to deliver the best health outcomes for our total population. Reflecting the population we serve is an important part of the care we deliver to the community. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds with the necessary capability and who share our values to apply. We proactively develop pathways that maximise opportunity for Māori and encourage Māori to apply.

**He aha Waikato**

Waikato is the fourth largest region in Aotearoa New Zealand and located just south of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. It features a wide range of world-class outdoor and cultural experiences. You can surf the world-famous beaches of Whāingaroa Raglan, swim at the beautiful beaches of the Kapanga Coromandel, hike our majestic mountain ranges, tour the Hobbiton shire, experience the magic of the Waitomo glow worm caves, and encounter a vast array of flora and fauna at the remarkable Maungatautari Ecological Reserve.

Waikato is the home of the Kiingitanga and rich in Māori culture. Waikato Hospital sits on whenua gifted by Waikato iwi, situated on the banks of the mighty Waikato Awa, Hamilton is New Zealand’s largest metropolitan inland city. Hamilton’s vibrant city centre and rich cultu