Pharmacy Technician

St John of God Subiaco Hospital

St John of God Subiaco Hospital is one of Perth’s leading private hospitals, providing specialist medical and surgical care across a diverse range of clinical services. With a strong focus on safe, high-quality patient care, pharmacists at Subiaco work closely with medical, nursing and allied health teams to support optimal medication management and patient outcomes. The hospital offers a collaborative environment with opportunities to broaden and develop your clinical pharmacy expertise.

Your role at St John of God Subiaco Hospital

As Pharmacy Technician, you will assist in the provision of pharmacy services to patients, external organisations, and other hospital caregivers by providing technical support to pharmacists.

The role is offered on a Permanent full-time basis, working 38 hours per week

The Position:

• Prepare, label, record and assist in the sterile compounding of medications, including cytotoxic drugs and total parenteral nutrition, under pharmacist supervision.
• Manage ordering, receipt, storage and inventory control of pharmaceuticals and consumables, ensuring correct stock rotation and expiry checking across wards and departments.
• Support dispensing, imprest distribution and delivery of pharmaceuticals—including restricted and Schedule 8 medicines—while maintaining accurate records and reports.
• Assist with quality assurance, statistical reporting, charging processes, recycling of returned medicines and recovery of owing prescriptions.
• Maintain pharmacy operations through equipment cleaning, extemporaneous manufacturing, emergency cupboard management, reception support and relief in senior technician roles as required.

You will be familiar with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and dispensing procedures. You will also be familiar with or be prepared to undertake training on preparation of cytotoxic medications.

To succeed you will have well developed verbal and written communication skills and a knowledge of medication terminology. You will have excellent time management skills and the ability to work unsupervised to meet deadlines. You will be required to demonstrate attention to detail, instructions and work procedures with the ability to document accurately and neatly.

Possession of or progress towards Certificate IV Medical Technicians and Assistants (Pharmacy) or equivalent will be highly regarded.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary: $74,627 to $85,129 plus 12% superannuation
• Permanent full-time position
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and
• additional superannuation
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For enquiries contact Katie Jodrell, Chief Pharmacist, or Vanessa Ford, Head Pharmacy Technician, on (08) 93826324 93826324)

Position may be filled before closing date if a suitable candidate is identified

Please note: If suitable candidates are identified, shortlisting and interviews may begin before the advertisement closes.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.