Older People's Clinical Fellow (Occupational Therapist)

Older People's Clinical Fellow (Occupational Therapist)

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  • Salary From:
    £60,000
  • Salary To:
    £90,000
  • Region:
    UK Wide
  • Location:
    Dual London/Home
  • Advertised Job Category:
    Partnerships
  • Department:
    Centre of Clinical Expertise
  • Job type:
    Fixed Term
  • Closing Date:
    30 July 2025

Older People’s Clinical Fellow (Occupational Therapist)
Fixed Term Contract (12 months) 
Part-time 14 hours (two days a week), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location 
Split between home and our London Office (every 1st Wednesday of the month)
Salary up to £90,000 FTE (£36,522 pro rata) depending on experience and/ or current NHS pay grade

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.

 

About the role
We are launching the 2025-2026 Macmillan Clinical Fellowship programme. This is an exciting new programme, key in the implementation of our new ambitious 2025-2030 strategy.  

The Older People's Clinical Fellow (Occupational Therapist) will be part of the Centre of Clinical Expertise and a member of the Cancer and Other Long Term Conditions Core Strategic group. The role will bring insight, expertise and the opportunity to collaborate to seek solutions, best practice and innovation. As part of this work there will be opportunity to deliver learning and development, conference presentations and media and communications activities such as academic publications, newsletters and web content development.

This role will be both beneficial to Macmillan in helping to improve the lives of people living with cancer, as well as provide the successful candidate with a potentially career changing opportunity. 

The fellow will be part of a highly motivated, inspirational and supportive team and be given mentorship support throughout the fellowship. 

This role is being recruited to as part of a cohort of clinical fellows from different disciplines and will have different areas of focus around Macmillan’s core strategic objectives allowing for peer support and learning:

  • Equitable Experience of Care Clinical Fellow 
  • Multi-Disciplinary Team Clinical Fellow 
  • Older People’s Clinical Fellow (Occupational Therapist).

 

About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

  • Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as an Occupational Therapist.
  • An understanding/experience in health inequities
  • Evidence of involvement in clinical leadership and management commensurate with your level of practice
  • Evidence of considering equality, diversity and inclusion in work undertaken
  • Good communication and IT skills
  • The ability to build and sustain networks and professional relationships and work with multi-professional teams

 

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 (pro rata)
  • 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

 

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Wednesday 30th July 2025

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. 

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk.


 
 
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Benefits

Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
High Street Discounts
Discounted Gym Membership
Cycle to Work Scheme
Industry leading Family Leave support
Flexible Working Hours
Home, Office & Hybrid Working Offer
Enhanced Long Service Awards
One day a year paid voluntary/community work
Learning and Development Offer
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