Senior Pharmacy Technician

New Zealand’s leading public hospital
- Full-time permanent position

Are you an experienced hospital pharmacy technician who would like to challenge yourself in a senior role? A role scoped to extend the existing technician career pathway into clinical pharmacy services?

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

The successful applicant of this exciting role will lead, drive and extend the current ward technician role by ensuring the delivery of optimal medication management services to both our patients and staff through the provision of clinical pharmacy services. Working with the Pharmacy Leadership Team, you will be responsible for developing, expanding and incorporating aspects of clinical pharmacy services into the career pathway for technicians at Te Toka Tumai. This will initially include medication history taking and patient counselling and may develop into other areas such as medicines reconciliation and penicillin allergy relabelling.

You will support the Clinical Pharmacy team to ensure the provision of safe and cost effective drug therapy to achieve optimal outcomes for patients in accordance with Te Toka Tumai and Pharmacy policies and procedures.

This permanent, full time role will be supported with the necessary training and development to support the wider roll out of Clinical Technician services in the future.

For further details, please refer to the position description **here**.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**

Key Functions of the role include:

- develop, coordinate and contribute to the delivery of high quality and timely clinical pharmacy services
- prioritise work of the available staff to optimise service outcomes
- undertake performance review and development of staff
- provide leadership within the team for the development, review, evaluation and teaching of workplace policies and procedures

A passionate pharmacy technician committed to furthering yourself and your peers you’ll come to us with a Level 5 qualification and experience providing ward technician services in New Zealand or overseas. You will be patient focused, assertive, confident, have good interpersonal and communication skills alongside a high attention to detail. You’ll be a flexible, organised professional, proactive problem solver, have an appetite for learning and be enthusiastic about extending your scope.

**He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here**

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply**

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

We are part of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.

We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.