Overview
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hrs per week
Location: Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital
Position Classification: Pharmacist Grade 3
Remuneration: $131,830.72 - $135,397.65 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ609113
Application Close Date: 12/10/2025
Interview Date Range: 15/10/2025 – 22/10/2025
Contact Details: Rebecca Ho (02) 9722 8520 | Lai. H o@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist with advanced expertise in critical care and a passion for digital health? South Western Sydney Local Health District is seeking a highly skilled Pharmacist (Grade 3) to join our Digital Health and Critical Care team in a permanent full-time capacity. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a leading tertiary referral hospital, where you’ll play a key role in delivering high-quality pharmacy services to critical care areas such as ICU, CCU and ED.
In this role, you will contribute to the ongoing development and integration of digital health solutions, supporting protected and effective medication management and enhancing clinical workflows. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, participate in strategic projects, and help drive innovation in patient care. If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make a meaningful impact in both digital health and critical care, we encourage you to apply.
What You'll be Doing
The Digital Health and Critical Care Team Leader Pharmacist is responsible for developing and managing clinical informatics and digital solutions within the pharmacy. This position also coordinates the Critical Care Pharmacy Service in areas such as the Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology, and Emergency.
Additionally, they work collaboratively with digital health team members to implement and maintain clinical application systems in a manner that promotes medication safety. They utilise their proficiency with clinical application systems and data analysis to drive change and practice improvement for the pharmacy service.
The Digital Health and Critical Care Team Leader Pharmacist provides leadership, guidance, support, and expert advice to staff, ensuring the safe and cost-effective use of medicines within established policies and procedures, ethical and professional practice standards, and legislative requirements.
Where You'll Be Working
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees.
The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community.
Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients.
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current registration as a pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia with no conditions or restrictions on practice and no less than 3 years extensive experience in a hospital pharmacy.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including demonstrated ability to develop high quality written guidelines, procedures, educational, research or business materials.
- Demonstrated skills and experience in managing a complex workload, problem solving, development and implementation of initiatives.
- Demonstrated high level skills and experience as a clinical pharmacist in a public hospital setting with a detailed understanding of the requirements of pharmacy services in Critical Care.
- Demonstrated experience in the management of electronic medical record (eMR) systems and digital solutions in pharmacy.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
Eligibility
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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📌 Pharmacist (Gde 3) - Digital Health and Critical Care Team Leader - Perm FT
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