Key Points

• Permanent full-time Reliever/Rotational Pharmacist role with extensive travel opportunities across Greater Brisbane and beyond.
• Gain hands-on experience in a variety of settings including hospital, community, clinical, and oncology pharmacy.
• Community and newly registered Pharmacists are encouraged to apply!
• Enjoy incentives and allowances when you’re travelling for work!
• Join Australia’s largest integrated provider of cancer care and enjoy real career development opportunities along with fantastic employee benefits

The Opportunity
If you love variety, travel, and flexibility in your career, this could be the perfect role for you. As a Reliever Pharmacist, you’ll have the unique opportunity to visit and work in multiple locations within our network, gaining experience in diverse environments and specialties. This is a chance to combine your career with adventure, stepping into a role that offers something new every day.
  
This is an incredibly rewarding, exciting and career-enhancing opportunity to gain highly sort after, industry applauded, hospital pharmacy experience. But don’t just take our word for it. Here’s just some of the wonderful things our current Travelling/Reliever pharmacist Jodie Wilson has to say about her experience in the role:

“One of the main things that I love about being a reliever pharmacist, is that it allows me to combine my love of travel, with my passion for pharmacy and truly making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. I enjoy the variety of working with different teams in different locations, it keeps things fresh and exciting – no two days are the same. Working as a reliever pharmacist has exposed me to many different clinical areas in hospital pharmacy, where I’ve developed the type of knowledge and experience that I would not have gained otherwise.” – Jodie Wilson, Reliever Pharmacist Brisbane

About the Role
As a Reliever Pharmacist, you won’t be tied to one location. Your primary base will be at Slade Pharmacy in St. Vincent’s Northside, and you will regularly travel to various locations within Greater Brisbane. On occasion, you may be called on to provide coverage in regional Queensland, including stunning locations like Townsville and the Sunshine Coast.

Specific travel benefits and incentives include:

• Incentive Allowance – This is a fixed allowance on top of the base salary
• Mileage Allowance – Be compensated for petrol costs and depreciation of when using your personal vehicle for work purposes. TOIL and additional mileage allowances are provided for further travel.
• Overnight Allowance – On occasions where work takes you away for more than a day.

This role also provides you with the opportunity to significantly diversify your career, as you will be exposed to a variety of multidisciplinary services, including oncology, clinical, and community. With the support of our collaborative teams, you will receive the right training and support to succeed. 
  
Your duties will vary depending on the site that you are covering, however, some of the key responsibilities will include:

• Conduct medication chart reviews and medication reconciliation
• Dispense and supply medication and pharmacy products
• Coordinate patient medication requirements for inpatient stay, day infusions and discharge
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with key stakeholders to ensure excellent customer service to clients and patients
• Support patients, carers, hospital staff and associated employees
• Educate and advise staff and customers on health promotion, disease prevention, drug selection and the proper use of medicines

If you’re interested in the role but concerned about travel to Chermside, don't worry! Most of your assignments will be outside of North Brisbane.

About You
You are a versatile Pharmacist who thrives in new environments and enjoys travel. Your strong communication skills and ability to adapt make you a great fit for this unique and varied role. Community and newly registered Pharmacists are encouraged to apply as hands-on training will be provided.

To be considered for the role, we require that you possess:

• Previous dispensing experience in an Australian based hospital or community pharmacy
• Current AHPRA registration
• Current drivers licence and roadworthy vehicle for regular travel. 

Hospital experience not required, as structured training provided for you to succeed in the role. 

About Us
Icon Group provides a complete suite of services to support the operation of more than 75 pharmacies across Australia. Icon Group supports Slade and Epic pharmacies specialising in hospital and oncology pharmacy services. This includes regional and metropolitan sites in both public and private hospitals that range from 31 to 900 beds. 

The national pharmacy network offers partner hospitals best-practice medication supply and clinical pharmacy services, combined with extensive experience and knowledge of pharmacy governance and quality management practices.  

For more information visit https://icongroup.global/en/our-services/pharmacy-services

Our Values

• Purpose, at Pace: We remain focused on continually expanding our cancer treatment services and making them accessible to more people across Australia and internationally.
• Impact, at Scale: We’re Australia’s largest dedicated provider of cancer care, with our global reach growing every day. Here you’ll know your work is making a difference.
• Connection, at Heart: Our work isn’t easy but it’s extremely important. Our secret ingredient is our incredible, connected, and talented people. And their secret ingredient is each other.
• Opportunity, at Hand: We’re continually innovating. We deliver over 2.5 million patient interactions, in over 120 places, across 5 countries. Every week brings changes, growth and new opportunities.

Put simply, At Icon. You Can

To Apply
Please attach a resume and cover letter showing us why you’d love to join us, and what makes you a great fit for the role.

Icon Group celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees. We encourage applications from all diverse backgrounds.
Visit https://icongroup.global/en/careers/our-people/stories/ to read the stories of our incredible people.

Health Requirement
Icon is committed to managing the risk of transmission of specified vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Certain roles may require the successful candidate to show evidence that they have been vaccinated against or are not susceptible to specified VPDs.