Cancer Specialist Professional

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Professional to join the Macmillan Next Steps Cancer Rehabilitation Service on a six-month fixed-term basis.

Macmillan Next Steps is a community-based cancer rehabilitation service supporting people living with and beyond cancer to improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life.

We are looking for a motivated and innovative individual with strong clinical and leadership skills to help support the delivery and ongoing development of the service.

Main duties of the job

Working alongside the existing Band 7 Team Lead, you will provide specialist clinical support, leadership and supervision to the team. You will undertake holistic patient assessments and triage, provide individualised 1:1 rehabilitation support to patients with complex physical and psychological needs, and empower individuals to manage the ongoing consequences of cancer and its treatment.

You will also contribute to service improvement and development, support the delivery of patient education and health and wellbeing programmes, and work collaboratively with colleagues across primary care, secondary care and the voluntary sector.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills, experience of multidisciplinary working and a passion for delivering holistic, person-centred care.

If you are passionate about cancer rehabilitation and making a positive difference to the lives of people affected by cancer, we would love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide clinical supervision to the clinical team and contribute to the identification of objectives and training needs as part of the annual personal development reviews.
• Coordinates Multidisciplinary activities including caseload management
• Assists the other team lead with the operational management of the service on a day to day basis.
• Undertakes specialist diagnosis, assessment and treatment of people living with or beyond cancer, to assist people to adapt and cope with living with the long-term physical and psychological consequences of cancer treatment.
• Contribute to service development and quality initiatives in line with local and national policy using audit and policy development.
• To participate in and contribute to service modernisation including operational planning, implementation of policy, leading on delegated projects that enable to expansion of the service to new tumour sites and localities.
• Communicate service change and development across the Cancer pathway, involving relevant partners and stakeholders.
• Co facilitate psychological based specialist courses such as Fear of Cancer Recurrence and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for hot flushes courses

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.