At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead advanced therapies, ensuring best practices and compliance in clinical workflows.
- Company: Join the Royal Children's Hospital, a leader in healthcare innovation.
- Benefits: Salary packaging, discounted parking, and a supportive work culture.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic team environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's health through advanced therapies and research.
- Qualifications: Registered pharmacist with leadership experience and expertise in advanced therapies.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 $ per year.
About the Role
This is a Fixed Term Full Time position at 80 per fortnight for 3 years within the Pharmacy Department and Advanced Therapies Program.
You will be responsible for:
- Functioning as a subject matter expert on advanced therapies and consulting with program stakeholders to develop and implement best practice solutions to clinical workflows, feasibility assessment, regulatory requirements, risk/adverse event monitoring, and compliance reporting.
- Operationalising research within advanced therapies, including the development of research protocols (where relevant) and identification of opportunities for future research and internal/external research collaborations.
- Translating research evidence specific to advanced therapies to clinical practice standard operating procedures.
- Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of clinical developments and research findings specific to advanced therapies.
- Responsibility for the accurate and timely reporting of key performance indicators specific to the administration of advanced therapies, including regulatory/legislative reporting requirements.
Your skills and experience:
- Professional registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Pharmacy Board of Australia.
- Proven capacity for leadership in a team environment and ability to work well as a senior team member.
- Significant experience in the implementation of advanced therapies.
- Significant experience in the ethical conduct of research clinical trials.
About the Department
The Pharmacy Department is a team of around 70 staff including pharmacists, technicians, and administrators. Our supportive and collaborative teams include Outpatients, Children's Cancer Centre, Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical trials, and Medicines Information, HiTH and Sterile Services and the Pharmacy Business Unit.
The newly established RCH Advanced Therapies program sits within the Medical Services Division and is structured as a clinical/research partnership with the Melbourne Clinical Trials Centre, providing access to new and novel interventions via coordinated and streamlined internal/external governance approvals and the integration of clinical and non-clinical research and clinical trials (commercial, philanthropic and/or other funding) within the clinical practice setting. This program will support the cohesive and expanded delivery of advanced therapies for the Victorian community, and in doing so will position the RCH as an international centre of clinical excellence.
What we offer:
- Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
- Culture of continuous improvement.
Other requirements:
- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain.
- Valid Working with Children Check.
- Compliance with RCH's "Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases" procedure.
Why work at the RCH?
RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city. We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.
The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disabilities.
It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children's Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement; it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.
It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children's Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.
Applications close Friday 14 August.
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