Medication/Patient Safety (Pharmacist, Nurse, or Doctor) at Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Southern, Otago

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• Otago/Southland
• Permanent, full-time role (1.0 FTE, 40 hours per week)
• Salary $100k - $110k p.a and KiwiSaver

At Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora - Southern, it's truly a team effort. We are looking for someone who has experience and a passion for patient safety to join our team. The role is a full-time, permanent position, working across the district, so this role can be based in Otago or Southland. 

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Pharmacist, Registered Nurse (with prescribing) or Doctor to join our Patient Safety team. 

A fantastic role is now available where you can apply your clinical knowledge and build on your experience in medicines safety activities, whilst working within a large tertiary level hospital across the Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Southern district. Whether you are in a similar role now or are looking to further develop your knowledge and skills, we welcome your application.

You will be involved with a variety of work undertaken by the patient safety and pharmacy teams. An area of key focus will be supporting medication safety across the organisation.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• working with all disciplines, supporting patient safety activity, including medicines safety initiatives and programmes
• developing a proactive approach to medication safety and leading and supporting the development and implementation of medicines safety programmes at Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora - Southern
• working alongside teams responsible for improvement/upgrade of existing processes providing the patient safety perspective
• facilitating implementation of local, regional or national medication safety initiatives
• ensuring appropriate Operating Procedures (SOPs) and clinical guidelines in relation to high-risk medicines are in place for Health New Zealand - Te Whatu - Southern
• the facilitation of some adverse event reviews, providing guidance to the team undertaking the review, and ensuring high quality reviews with appropriate recommendations and learning outcomes
• participation in the audit processes as required.

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About you

Our ideal candidate will have:

• a current health annual practicing certificate
• a post-graduate qualification relevant to roles you have held previously
• experience in medication safety programmes
• experience in data collection, turning information into insights
• the ability to learn and adapt quickly, and can demonstrate the ability to learn/grow/innovate/solution focused.

You will be decisive, organised, a forward thinker, and pragmatic.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities. 

How to apply

To apply please click 'apply now'. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by Sunday, 8 February 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact James Boyd james.boyd@tewhatuora.govt.nz

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website.