Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora - Hauora a Toi Bay of Plenty – Katikati, North Island
Fixed term, Part time position available
Flexible working including work from home.
A great place to work. A great place to receive care.
Committed to community.
Fixed term, Part time position available
Sunny Tauranga (Katikati) location.
Flexible working including work from home.
A great place to work. A great place to receive care.
Committed to community.
Te whai wahitangi| The opportunity
This is a welcoming environment with plenty of growth opportunities, professional development, and flexible working arrangements. If you are an agile and enthusiastic professional, come and join our dedicated team!
Enhancing patient health outcomes by optimising medication use through a comprehensive approach to medicines management, clinical evaluation, and reconciliation. This includes reducing medication-related harms, ensuring continued appropriateness of therapy, and supporting patient and whanau understanding of treatment. Additionally, the opportunity exists to improve care for high-risk medications and at-risk populations, while also driving quality improvement through system-directed activities such as pharmacotherapy advice, medication audits, and policy development for safer and more effective medication management across healthcare settings.
Duties will include:
Medicines management and optimisation to improve medicines-related health outcomes through optimising medicines use (medicines optimisation/management review)
Clinical evaluation and management of medication use
Medication reconciliation
Advise and support whanau understanding and experience of medication treatment, how it can affect their health and wellbeing – including lifestyle, impacts on adherence, and issues that may occur with administering medications, including problematic polypharmacy
Supporting management of long-term conditions through initiation and continuation of prescribed treatments within area of practice (Prescriber scope only).
Improving management of high-risk medicines e.g., lithium, warfarin and in at-risk populations e.g., diabetes, dementia, and during transitions of care
Kowai koe?| About you
You'll bring to the role:
Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) or equivalent overseas qualification
Qualified pharmacist with current APC without restrictions
Pharmacists undertaking prescribing activities must be registered and have a current APC (without restrictions) in the Pharmacist Prescriber Scope of Practice.
Holds, or is working towards, relevant postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (preference to Postgraduate Diploma level or equivalent)
Experience in implementing Te Tiriti o Waitangi in action
Primary or community healthcare experience
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