For pharmacy owners
Permanent pharmacist placement across Australia.
The locum cycle keeps a pharmacy open. It does not build one. Every short-term fill is another handover, another induction and another gap to cover next month. We place permanent pharmacists who fit the pharmacy and stay in it.
Why permanent
Continuity is the point, not the vacancy.
A permanent pharmacist learns your systems, your prescribers and your regulars. That is what lets you plan, grow the services and eventually step back.
Retention is cheaper than constant recruitment, and it is the only measure that matters. We recruit for fit and for the town as well as for registration, because that is what makes a placement last years rather than months.
How it runs
Four steps, and a straight answer at the first one.
We take the brief and test it
Store, hours, package, who the pharmacist reports to and what the team around them looks like. If the role is not fillable as written, you hear that on the first call.
We search a network, not an ad
Pharmacists registered in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Canada and the United States who actively want permanent roles — including in rural and regional towns.
You get a shortlist that has been checked
Registration status, work rights and availability confirmed before anyone reaches you.
We manage it to a signed start date
And we stay in touch after it, because the first three months are where placements fall over. Where the right candidate is overseas-qualified, we run the visa, sponsorship and Ahpra side end to end.
Why they leave
What makes a permanent placement stick.
Filling the role is the easy half. The failures are predictable, and all four are avoidable.
The role was sold as something it is not
A pharmacist told there would be support who arrives to find they are the only one on will be gone inside six months, and you will have paid for the privilege.
The package was below market
Someone who took the job reluctantly is already listening to the next offer. The salary guide is there so that conversation happens at the start.
Nobody checked they wanted the town
Regional placements fail when the candidate was sold a job and not a life. We are deliberately blunt with candidates about what a country town is and is not.
There was no path forward
Capable pharmacists leave roles that go nowhere. If there is a route to management or to partnership and ownership, say so. It is often worth more than salary.
32 of the 34 pharmacists we have placed permanently are still in the role. A number have gone on to become working partners in the pharmacies they were placed into. That is the number we care about.
Before you start
Three questions worth answering first.
- Short next week?
- A permanent search does not fix a gap next Tuesday. Run locum cover alongside it. A block booking while the search runs properly is usually cheaper than a rushed hire you replace in a year.
- Outside a capital city?
- That is where we concentrate. See rural and regional recruitment for sourcing, interns and partnerships in one place.
- Open to overseas?
- It can work, but only if you know where the candidate sits on two separate approval tracks. Sponsoring an overseas pharmacist sets out what has to clear and how long it takes.
- What it costs
- A fixed fee, never a percentage of salary — the same whether you are hiring an intern or a pharmacist in charge. Quoted in writing before we start. How the fee works.
Next step
Tell us about the vacancy.
You will get the fee in writing, a view on whether the role is fillable as written, and a realistic time to fill — before you commit to anything.