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Senior Cancer Awareness Nurse - City, United Kingdom - Cancer Research UK
Description
SENIOR CANCER AWARENESS NURSE - SCOTLAND (REGISTERED ADULT NURSE)
Salary: £43,000 per annum + Car Allowance
Reports to: Cancer Awareness Nurse Manager
Department: Policy, Information and Communications
Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract
Hours: 28 hours per week (evening and weekend work may be required)
Location: Home-based (Scotland)
Closing date: Sunday 21 April 2024, 23:55
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Senior Cancer Awareness Nurse on a 12 month basis.
In this role, you'll be responsible for delivering local Cancer Awareness Roadshow and Hub activity - informing and empowering people to make healthy lifestyle changes and promote early diagnosis through in-depth face-to-face interactions and signposting into local services, particularly among those at greatest risk. This will include working on Cancer Research UK's Cancer Awareness Roadshow and Cancer Awareness Hub and other health promotion activities as required.
What will I be doing?
What skills are you looking for?
What will I gain?
Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.
In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.
We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.
Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.
How do I apply?
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
