Lead Pharmacist in Reading

Location: Icon Cancer Centre Thames Valley (Reading)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time (Mon-Fri, 37.5 hrs per week)

Role Overview

The Lead Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring the safe, effective, and patient-centred delivery of oncology pharmacy services. The role supports high-quality cancer care by providing clinical pharmacy leadership, driving medicines management initiatives, and ensuring services meet regulatory, governance, and national oncology standards.

This Lead Pharmacist role would be best suited to an experienced Oncology Pharmacist who is looking to combine clinical leadership, service development, governance, and operational oversight rather than focusing solely on frontline dispensing or clinical practice.

The successful candidate would likely be:

• A GPhC-registered Pharmacist with a BSc Pharmacy (or equivalent).
• An experienced practitioner with significant oncology pharmacy experience, ideally within a cancer centre, specialist oncology service, or hospital oncology department.
• Comfortable working with electronic prescribing systems, particularly supporting implementation, optimisation, training, and governance activities.
• A pharmacist who enjoys improving services and processes, including protocol development, audit, quality improvement, and medicines governance.
• Confident working across multidisciplinary teams, building relationships with consultants, nurses, operational teams, and senior leaders.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to balance clinical, strategic, and operational priorities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading safe oncology pharmacy practice, ensuring patients receive optimal pharmaceutical care and that clinical pharmacy services are continuously developed and improved.
• Supporting the growth of oncology services, including the development and optimisation of electronic prescribing systems (Mosaiq), implementation of new treatment protocols, and oversight of governance processes for systemic anti-cancer therapies (SACT).
• Contributing to medicines management and clinical governance, including audits, reporting, policy development, strategic planning, and ensuring best practice in oncology prescribing and medication use.
• Leading the day-to-day operation of the Oncology Pharmacy, maintaining high standards of patient care and ensuring cancer and palliative care services are aligned, evidence-based, and continuously improved.

Benefits

• Annual Leave: We offer 25 days + bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 3 years' service)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension: We offer an auto-enrolment pension from day 1 with a standard contribution of 5% employee, and 4% employer. You can also opt to enhance your contribution to 6%, to which the employer will also contribute 6%.
• Life Assurance: We offer a life assurance scheme equivalent to 3 x your annual salary.
• Wellbeing: The wellbeing of our people is extremely important to us, and we therefore offer an enhanced Employee Assistance Programme which offers holistic wellbeing support from fully accredited counsellors and psychotherapists, in the form of on-demand advice and counselling for our people and their immediate family. This service covers mental health concerns, financial worries and physical health anxieties.
• Reward & Recognition: All staff have access to our 'Ignite' benefits platform where you will have instant access to savings, cashback and reloadable vouchers for hundreds of leading retailers and brands.

Location

Icon UK are proud to be opening a Cancer Centre in Reading. The facility is custom-built and will provide state of the art oncology services to our patients. The centre will offer the following services:

• Radiotherapy
• Chemotherapy
• Diagnostic Services

The centre is based just south of Reading, with convenient access from the M4.

Company Introduction

Icon is a leading integrated healthcare provider with global reach across Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN, the United Kingdom and Germany. The Group is built on a strong but simple mission – to deliver the best care possible, to as many people as possible, as close to home as possible. We bring together all aspects of comprehensive cancer care, including medical oncology, radiation oncology, haematology, pharmacy, chemotherapy and sterile compounding, research and theranostics to deliver a true end-to-end seamless service for cancer patients internationally.

Icon Group was established in 2015 and the businesses that form Icon have been pillars of the Australian and ASEAN healthcare community for decades. In 2024, Icon expanded into the UK by bringing Pharmaxo Group into the Icon family, alongside a strategic partnership with Nuffield Health and its first cancer centre in Wimbledon, Icon Cancer Centre London. In 2025, we announced our strategic partnership with Evidia in Germany.

With our operations expanding across the globe, this role offers a valuable opportunity to join the team and make an impact.

At the heart of Icon, there is a clear set of values that guide how we work, make decisions and support one another every day. We are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful and collaborative environment where everyone can thrive and contribute their best. When you join our team, you’ll be a part of a culture that not only talks about its values, but brings them to life in a meaningful way.

Next Steps

For more information about our recruitment process, please see the attached Candidate guidance.

Closing Date: 03/09/2026