Intern Pharmacist

Shape your pharmacy future in one of NSW’s leading rural referral hospitals

Remuneration: $79,090 per annum + superannuation + salary packaging
Location: Tamworth Hospital
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time – Until January 2027
Position Classification: Pharmacist Unregistered
Requisition ID: REQ620950
Applications Close: Sunday 4th January 2025

About the role:

Hunter New England offers a comprehensive, supportive and diverse Intern Pharmacist experience designed to build your clinical capability in a hospital. This 12-month Internship position offers comprehensive pre-registration training aimed at preparing skilled hospital Pharmacists to meet critical needs within NSW hospitals. As part of our highly-skilled pharmacy team, you’ll be immersed in a wide range of clinical settings, gaining hands-on experience in dispensing, preparing, and distributing medications, handling discharge and outpatient prescriptions, and delivering crucial medication education to patients and healthcare colleagues.

You’ll work alongside experienced pharmacists and other allied health clinicians who are committed to your growth, offering structured supervision, regular feedback, and tailored learning opportunities to help you meet AHPRA registration standards. With access to a varied patient population and diverse clinical presentations, you’ll develop a deep understanding of hospital pharmacy practice while contributing meaningfully to patient care from day one. This is more than an internship - it’s a supported pathway to becoming a confident and capable hospital pharmacist.

Where you’ll be working:

The Pharmacy team at Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital (TRRH) is a highly experienced and collaborative team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, delivering comprehensive clinical and support services not only within TRRH but also across 12 rural and regional hospitals throughout the New England North West. TRRH is a 300-bed rural referral teaching hospital offering a broad range of medical and surgical specialties and services including general medicine, neurology, renal, cardiology, oncology, rehabilitation, general surgery and orthopaedic surgery. The hospital also provides obstetric, paediatric, and mental health care. Critical care capabilities include a Level 5 Intensive Care Unit (ICU), High Dependency Unit (HDU), and Coronary Care Unit (CCU), alongside one of the busiest regional Emergency Departments in New South Wales. This makes TRRH an exciting and challenging environment for pharmacy practice and would allow you to develop diverse pharmacy skills.

Requirements:
 

• Bachelor or Masters of Pharmacy (or successful completion of APEC Stage 1 examination if overseas qualification). Eligible for registration as a Pharmacist in NSW on completion of intern training programme (ITP).

What we offer

At Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), enjoy a career where you're challenged by interesting work and surrounded by spectacular locations. Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day: 
 

• Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero 
• Proximity to shopping and other services 
• ADO's each month (for full time employees) 
• Salary packaging options 
• Fitness Passport 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members 
• Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals

Additional Information:

• To be eligible for employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold an appropriate visa that allows you to live and work in Australia. Employment of a temporary visa holder will only be offered in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa. 
• An eligibility list will be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies.  
• We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.   

How to apply:

Click apply online, submit your information and resume, and address the criteria listed below providing examples that demonstrate your ability.
 

1. Outline how you handle a clinical situation where you are unsure of the answer or what needs to be done.
2. Provide an example of a clinical intervention you have been part of. What happened and what did you learn from the outcome?
3. Outline the skills, experiences and qualities that make you a good choice to be an Intern Pharmacist at Tamworth Hospital in 2026

Need more information? 

  1) Click here for the Position Description 
  2) Find out more about applying for this position

For role related queries or questions contact Ruth Martin on Ruth.Martin@health.nsw.gov.au