| JOB REG No. |
HOSPITAL NAME (alphabetical) |
POSITION (including fact sheet) |
TYPE |
WHEN |
| 208 |
Cairns Base Hospital |
Pharmacist PO4
FACT SHEET |
Temporary, full time |
Now |
| 172 |
Gold Coast Hospital |
Pharmacists PO3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent and temporary, full time |
Now |
| 241 |
Gold Coast Hospital |
Clinical Pharmacists HP3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 242 |
Gold Coast Hospital |
Clinical Pharmacist HP4
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 246 |
Gold Coast Hospital - Community Health |
Senior Pharmacist - Clinical HP4
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, part time |
Now |
| 220 |
Ipswich Hospital |
Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 184 |
Mackay Base Hospital |
Pharmacist PO3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 191 |
Maryborough & Harvey Bay Hospital |
Clinical Pharmacist PO2/PO3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 226 |
Maryborough Hospital |
Clinical Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 179 |
Mt Isa Hospital |
Pharmacist PO4
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 223 |
Mt Isa Hospital |
Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 236 |
Mt Isa Hospital |
Director of Pharmacy HP5
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 237 |
Mt Isa Hospital |
Senior Pharmacist HP4
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 230 |
Nambour General Hospital |
Clinical Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Temporary, full time |
Now |
| 243 |
Nambour General Hospital |
Clinical Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Temporary, full time |
Now |
| 214 |
Prince Charles Hospital (The) |
Pharmacist PO3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 239 |
Proserpine Hospital |
Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 218 |
Rockhampton Hospital |
Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 217 |
Safe Medicines Practice Unit |
Pharmacist HP4
FACT SHEET |
Permanent, full time |
Now |
| 244 |
Safe Medicines Practice Unit |
Team Leader (Medication Practitioner Development Team) HP6
FACT SHEET |
Temporary, full time |
Now |
| 225 |
Toowoomba Hospital |
Pharmacist HP3
FACT SHEET |
Temporary, part time |
Now |
Salary & Conditions
Superannuation. The Queensland Government contributes up to 12.5 per cent of your annual salary value to superannuation. Personal contributions may vary between two and five per cent. You will be a member in QSuper Accumulation plans or the QSuper Defined Benefit plan. See www.qsuper.qld.gov.au Q-Super for more information.
Professional Development. Advancement through the professional stream encourages individuals to progress from entry level as a pre registration trainee pharmacist at Professional Officer 2, Level 1 (PO2.1). PO6 positions are at the top of the professional stream and normally apply to Pharmacy Directors in larger establishments.
Clinical Advancement. Pharmacists within Queensland Health also access a clinical career pathway through the Allied Health Conditional Clinical Advancement Scheme. The Allied Health Conditional Clinical Advancement Scheme is a state-wide process of promoting Queensland Health's highest performing Allied Health employees regardless of geographic location, organisational structure and work unit size. Through the scheme, eligible allied health employees are able to progress to the PO4, PO5 and PO6 levels based on advanced clinical skill and ability. The Allied Health Conditional Clinical Advancement Scheme is evidence of Queensland Health's commitment to ongoing training and education of its workforce and to the recognition of advanced clinical skills. Applications for advancement are invited in July each year.
Cumulative Sick Leave. Queensland Health employees are entitled to 10 working days sick leave, with a cumulative balance. Part-time employees accrue at a pro rata rate.
Annual Leave. Pharmacists employed in Queensland Health public hospitals receive four weeks recreation leave per year. Part-time staff accrue annual leave at a pro rata rate. Queensland Health pays a generous leave loading of 17.5% of your entitled recreation leave.
Parental Leave. Up to 52 weeks' maternity/adoption leave can be taken by permanent Queensland Health employees, with temporary employees entitled to leave calculated relative to their end-date of employment. Six weeks' paid maternity/adoption leave, able to be taken as 12 weeks half-pay, is available for Queensland Health staff with 12 months employment. In addition, spousal leave of up to one week on full pay is available to eligible employees.
Study Leave Contributions. Queensland Health's Study and Research Assistance Scheme (SARAS) helps employees to pursue courses of study or research projects. Staff are eligible for SARAS assistance if the course of study or research undertaken helps them to perform their job better, or if it generally contributes to the achievement of the Department's goals.
Salary Entitlements .
Queensland Health offers competitive salary entitlements.
Salaries for Pharmacists from September 2008 will fall within the following ranges:
HP 3: $50,145 - $76,005
HP 4: $81,303 - $87,481
HP 5: $91,971 - $95,962
HP 6: $102,470 - $106,070
HP 7: $116,721 - $125,088
On top of the base salary, remuneration will also include the ability to salary sacrifice (limited in some situations - see Salary Sacrificing Opportunities), 12.5% superannuation, 17.5% leave loading, 4 weeks annual leave and cumulative sick leave, parental leave, long service leave, shift and on-call allowances.
Salary Sacrificing Opportunities. Queensland Health employees working in a public hospital have access to attractive salary packaging arrangements. This may include use of the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption of up to $17,000 grossed up total value per annum on items that normally attract FBT. This allows employees working in eligible areas to deduct some of their pre tax income to pay for benefits such as, mortgage repayments, car parking, and many other items usually subject to FBT from your pre- taxed income, reducing the amount of tax you are required to pay and increasing the amount you take home each fortnight (approximately $4500 after tax per annum).
Queensland Health Organisation and Vision
Queensland Health is a large progressive public health care provider. Currently, we employ approximately 63,000 staff in over 188 public hospitals and community health care services. Approximately 40 of these have pharmacist positions.
Queensland offers a wonderful lifestyle with a beautiful climate, and a diverse landscape from sub-tropical beaches, bays and islands, and tropical rain-forests to the more rugged extremes of the outback.
Queensland Health is a single organisation incorporating both corporate management of the State Department of Health, and provision of health services through public hospitals and a range of other institutions. The health services are structured into 38 Health Service Districts grouped into three Zones. This unique structure assists in supporting provision of health care for all Queenslanders. The strategic mission is to promote a healthier Queensland with a vision of Queensland Health as Leaders in Health - and partners for life.
Queensland Health has four core values - Professionalism, Teamwork, Performance and Accountability, Quality and Recognition. It has five strategic intents Healthier Staff, Healthier Partnerships, Healthier People & Communities, Healthier hospitals, Healthier Resources. For more information go to www.health.qld.gov.au
Information for Pharmacists Outside Queensland or Australia
Pharmacists registered in another Australian state or territory or in New Zealand are eligible for registration to practise in Queensland under mutual recognition.
The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) and its committee the Australian Pharmacy Examining Council (APEC) have announced a revised recognition process for overseas-trained pharmacists seeking registration in Australia.
APEC has been assessing the competencies of pharmacists seeking the right to practise in Australia for many years. However, pharmacists from the UK and Ireland have been exempt from that process under longstanding reciprocal arrangements between the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and state pharmacy registering authorities.
From 1 December 2006, all overseas-trained pharmacists, irrespective of their country of origin, will be required to be assessed for competency to practise in Australia by undertaking a formal APEC process. Go to the APC website for contact details and more information.
A new modified process will be introduced for eligible holders of qualifications from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada. This will be a shortened process involving a new examination to be known as the Competency Assessment of Overseas Pharmacists (CAOP), a minimum period of four weeks supervised practice in Australia and a national examination of pharmacy law and ethics. Pharmacists from other countries will continue to be assessed by the current process, which includes formal examinations, longer periods of supervised practice and a final assessment of competency.
All pharmacists seeking to practise in Australia will be required to establish their good standing in each jurisdiction in which they have been registered over the preceding ten years.
New Zealand pharmacists will continue to be exempt from APEC requirements unless they require skills assessment for migration purposes.
Pharmacist Board of Queensland
The Pharmacist Board of Queensland is the registering body for pharmacists in Queensland.
The Registrar
Pharmacist Board of Queensland
Level 19 Forestry House
160 Mary Street
Brisbane Queensland 4001
AUSTRALIA
Telephone: 61 7 3225 2532
Facsimile: 61 7 3225 2527
E-mail: pharmacy@healthregboards.qld.gov.au
Queensland - More Information
As the government website spells out, Queensland welcomes people from interstate and overseas with ideas, skills and initiative to share a quality of life that ranks with the best in the world. A relaxed lifestyle, affordable homes and easy commuting make Queensland one of Australia's most attractive places to live and work. Queensland offers a beautiful sub-tropical climate and a diverse landscape from tropical beaches, bays and islands to the more rugged extremes of the outback.
For more information go to:
http://www.qld.gov.au/
http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/brisbane/
http://www.health.qld.gov.au
http:/www.health.qld.gov.au/hospitals/default.asp
Looking for Hospital Pharmacists?
Register vacant pharmacist positions on the SHPA Job Register, it is free for Queensland public hospitals and is accessible by anyone with internet access. You may submit as much information as you
wish and the vacancy can remain on the Register until it is filled.
How to Register a Vacancy
Download a Vacancy Record Form Click Here for a Vacancy Record Form.
Save as a Word document on your computer.
Complete and return to your Queensland Health HR who will send it to Staff Search and they will then forward to SHPA.
Complete a separate Vacancy Record Form for each vacancy.
SHPA will load the vacancy within 5 working days of receiving it from Staff Search and will confirm via an email to you.
Notify SHPA jobs@shpa.org.au when a vacancy is filled so it can be removed from the Register.
For any queries please email jobs@shpa.org.au
More About Queensland Health
Medicines and Pharmacy Services Unit
This unit provides a wide range of advice and coordination within Queensland Health relating to pharmacy and pharmaceuticals. They can also put you in touch with hospitals and other Queensland Health facilities who would welcome enquiries from pharmacists but who are not currently advertising a vacancy. For more information on the unit and specific opportunities please contact Andrew Petrie, Director Medicines and Pharmacy Services Unit, Queensland Health by phone on 07 3636 9830, or by email at Andrew_Petrie@health.qld.gov.au
Pharmacy Support Personnel
Queensland Health encourages the utilisation of trained Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Assistants for appropriate roles in hospitals and supports a training program for these staff. Vacancies for support staff are also advertised in the local press and the Queensland Health Services Bulletin.
http:/www.health.qld.gov.au/HealthBulletins/default.asp
Contacting SHPA
Queries about the SHPA Job Register from employers or job seekers should be directed by e-mail to jobs@shpa.org.au or by telephone, fax or mail to the SHPA Federal Secretariat.
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