Job description
Agency Department of Health Work unit Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospital Pharmacy
Job title Deputy Director of Pharmacy - Quality Designation Senior Professional 1
Use of Medicines
Job type Full time Duration Fixed to 25/09/2026
Salary $128,551 - $143,611 Location Darwin, Palmerston
Position number 40003 RTF 331454 Closing 06/10/2025
Contact officer Chui Soon, Deputy Director of Pharmacy on 08 8922 6406 or Chui.Soon@nt.gov.au
About the agency http://www.health.nt.gov.au/
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=331454
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY
QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with
disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss
this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the
OCPE website.
Primary objective
To lead, develop, manage and promote the Quality Use of Medicines within the organisation, including medicines governance, medication
safety, and medicines stewardship programs, to improve patient outcomes.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Provide leadership, line management, induction, guidance, mentoring, support and expert advice to junior and senior staff to ensure
the effective delivery of Quality Use of Medicines programs to RDPH in a complex cross cultural context.
2. Assist the Director with the administration of the department, including recruitment, performance management, and improvements in
medication management within the Top End Region and across the NT.
3. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.
4. Provide pharmacy leadership across Quality Use of Medicines programs, setting work plans, and ensuring appropriate activities are
undertaken within established clinical governance structures to prepare the health service for national accreditation.
5. Undertake the Secretariat role for the NT Medicines and Therapeutics Committee, and manage the RDPH Drug Information Service.
6. Develop and foster strategic relationships through committee memberships and links with other pharmacy departments and
universities.
7. Facilitate and promote research activity that contributes to the organisation’s Quality Use of Medicines programs.
8. Maintain a commitment to ensuring contemporary knowledge, leadership practices, and career development.
9. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in
order to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. A degree or equivalent qualification in Pharmacy and Registration as a Pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia.
2. Extensive contemporary experience, preferably in a tertiary hospital setting, with demonstrated understanding of contemporary issues
and challenges related to pharmacy service provision.
3. Experience in human resource management, including recruitment, line management, supervision, and mentoring of professional staff.
4. High level initiative and commitment to quality improvement, including the ability to plan, prioritise and manage high volume workloads
with changing priorities.
5. Demonstrated competence, expertise, and application of clinical judgement relevant to Quality Use of Medicines, including detailed
knowledge and understanding of relevant jurisdictional and national policies and standards that promote the Quality Use of Medicines.
6. Demonstrated leadership, negotiation and change management skills including the ability to delegate appropriately, and effectively
monitor performance outcomes.
7. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in researching, analysing, coordinating information and providing concise, relevant and
timely advice, briefings and written reports for a variety of audiences.
8. Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate and liaise effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
Desirable
1. Postgraduate qualifications or research experience in clinical pharmacy, clinical governance, or management.
Further information
Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and
criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. For
immunisation requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) or Category B (indirect contact with blood or
body substances), check with contact person for requirements.