Cancer Support Specialist - Manchester, United Kingdom - Maggie's
Description
Location of appointmentMaggie's, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 15 Kinnaird Road, Manchester M20 4QL
Sunday 19 February 2023
Contract type
Permanent
Salary range
£31,938 - £42,773 DOE
We have an exciting opportunity for a Cancer Support Specialist to actively support centre visitors to understand and articulate their cancer related concerns in our Manchester centre on a 30 hour week contract.
You will have a nursing degree (or equivalent training), current state registration and at least three years post qualification experience within an oncology nursing or related setting.
Responsibilities:
- Through ongoing work with individuals, families and groups you will help them to engage with, and utilise, Maggie's psychosocial programme of support.
- You will be able to demonstrate experience in providing personfocused, care support and a commitment to working as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- You will have broad and uptodate clinical knowledge in the field of cancer and be comfortable using narrative and strong interpersonal skills to assess cancer support needs and elicit concerns.
- You will be well organised, and emotionally sensitive while also resilient, and able to manage the demands of ongoing emotionally intense work.
In addition to a highly rewarding career, we offer a range of staff benefits including:
- unique, experiential induction based in one of our centres
Read more about our staff benefits.
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