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Are you overworking yourself or your pharmacist? Need a holiday or even just a break for a day or two? Have a training day, but not sure whether you can take that day off? Below are some reasons why you might need a locum. Your pharmacist is crying out for help: If your pharmacist has contacted you several times over the past few weeks asking fo...

As health professionals, there are many steps we can take to be more patient-centered, which to me means putting the patient’s safety first. At the end of the day, if the patient is not taking their medicines correctly or safely, they are not going to get the optimum therapeutic outcome. Therefore, it is important that health professionals work ...

Finding a new team member for your business is challenging and time consuming, so you definitely want to be sure you are approaching it in the right way from the outset to get the best outcome. It’s important to intentionally provide an ACE - Awesome Candidate Experience from the beginning of the process if you want to secure the Best. How an ap...

Applying for pharmacy jobs can be daunting, and as an intern myself the thought of the next job is always lurking in the back of my mind. My advice to pharmacy students would be to work in a pharmacy whilst studying because one thing - among many - that it teaches you is the value of enhancing your personal brand. Writing the near-perfect cover ...

Do you know what one thing really boggles me? Everyone wants their perfect role, their next exciting career move, but many Pharmacists never achieve what they desire because they don’t invest the “time” to understand their unique attributes, and if they do, when the opportunity arises are incapable of articulating these. So why do they fail, whe...

Ayomide Ogundipe was recently announced as the winner of the 2019 PSA MIMS Intern Pharmacist of the Year Award. Ayomide kindly agreed to sit down with Shefali Parekh from Raven’s Recruitment and answer her questions regarding her win and her career in Pharmacy to date. SP: Where you work, what qualifications do you have and when / where did you ...

It is important for all pharmacists to focus on our own mental health to ensure we are in a good position to look after others. Two sayings that come to mind are “put on your own oxygen mask first so that you can help others” and “you can’t pour from an empty glass”. Mental health is a continuum and we all sit someone along the line between ment...

Attending the recent inaugural Pharmacy Owners Congress in Byron Bay, a common theme amongst Pharmacy owners was how do we attract and retain the right employees for our business? Talented and high performing employees are instrumental to business success - and with more management focus than ever before on retaining great employees, many pharma...

It is true that each locum experience is unique to itself however, if you are new to the locum field it is easy to gather information about the nature of locuming that is not entirely accurate. Being pharmacy locum recruiters, we have identified some of the most common misconceptions we encounter and decided to shed some light on them. Myth 1: T...

David Paulmert is an optimal care pharmacist based in Port Douglas, Far North QLD. He registered in August 2018 after completing his internship with LiveLife in Port Douglas. It was during this time he was awarded the title of 2018 Guild Intern Pharmacist of the Year. While studying at Griffith University Gold Coast, David took roles in his loca...