Technician membership
Stay connected and informed as part of your rapidly-growing community, with opportunities to share and pool your knowledge while supporting our advocacy for the growth of Pharmacy Technician and Assistant roles.
Technician membership fee: $236 (inc. GST)
Half-yearly: $125 (total $250); Quarterly: $64 (total $256); Monthly: $22 (total $264)
Eligibility: A pharmacy technician or assistant, qualified by training or experience, to carry out functions and activities that do not require professional judgement by a pharmacist in a hospital or other medical establishment. See SHPA's constitution for a full definition.
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Technician membership benefits:
Free and discounted access to CPD
- $120 off registration to Medicines Management, SHPA's annual conference
- 20% saving on all national seminars
- Free registration for Branch webinars
- Discounted registration for Branch symposia
- Free access to self-paced education via Online CPD
- Access to Electronic Medicines Information Training (EMIT) Core Content modules
- Contribute to local learning and networking through SHPA Branch committees
Leadership + Innovation
- Discounted access to Executive Coaching
- Invitation to the annual launch of Pharmacy Forecast Australia
- Nominate for Branch Committee positions
Specialty Practice
- Self-enrol in Interest Groups
- Apply to join Practice Groups
- Nominate for election to Leadership Committees
- Contribute to clinical education across 30+ specialty areas
- Build networks of peers via online communities
- Consult and share information with members, key stakeholders and government
- Real-time answers to clinical questions via discussion forums
- Opportunities to peer review research in JPPR
- Shape SHPA Standards of Practice, informing national delivery of specialty hospital pharmacy services
Policy + Advocacy
- Participate in special advisory projects
- Contribute to policy submissions
- Effect local-level change through SHPA Branch committees
- Centralised access to policy and medicines submissions
- Centralised access to position statements, practice updates and fact sheets
- Weekly notification of medicines shortages
Resources + Publications
- Free access to thousands of full-text journal articles via EBSCOhost
- Free access to high quality, evidence-based information via DynaMed
- Free access to the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research (JPPR) and GRIT
- $35 off the Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook
- $50 off Don't Rush to Crush
- Free access to SHPA Standards of Practice through JPPR
Recognition + Reward
- MSHP postnominal
- SHPA Award eligibility
- SHPA Branch Award eligibility
- SHPA Members' Award eligibility
- Award voting rights