Cancer Information Development Nurse

Cancer Information Development Nurse 
Contract Type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract  (covering family leave) 
Full time: (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between Home and a Macmillan office (London/Shipley/Glasgow) 
Salary Range:  £38,500 - £42,500 

About the role
In this rewarding role you will join our award- winning Cancer Information Development team dedicated to producing and updating a wide range of high-quality accessible information for people living with cancer.

This includes helping people understand more about diagnosis, treatments, side effects and what can help when they’re living with and after cancer. Timely, accurate and up to date information can make all the difference – not only to a person with cancer but their family and friends too. 

You’ll be involved in writing, reviewing, editing, and developing content on a broad range of clinical and non-clinical topics. You’ll work with our editors and teams across Macmillan as well as people living with cancer, and health professionals to produce quality assured information for different audiences. 

Your clinical knowledge and cancer experience will be a valuable resource for colleagues in Macmillan helping us to ensure the charity is focused on the needs of people living with cancer. By playing a key part in our services, you’ll directly help people living with cancer feel informed, empowered and supported.

Please note although this contract is Hybrid - between home and a Macmillan office - the current office expectation is to attend for team meetings around 3 times per year. 

About you 

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• A Registered General Nurse qualification (essential) 
• Cancer or palliative care experience at registered nurse level (essential) 
• Post registration oncology or palliative care qualification (desirable) 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in writing and developing high quality health information (desirable) 

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

About Us
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we drive forward our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Sunday 27th July at 23:59pm 
First interview dates: W/C 4th August and W/C 11th August 

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments. 

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.