Primary Care Nursing Clinical Adviser

Primary Care Nursing Clinical Adviser
Contract type: Permanent
Part time: 2 days a week (0.4 FTE), one of which must be Wednesday
Location: Hybrid between home and our London office - expected to attend the London office on the first Wednesday of every month
Salary Range: £55,500 - £61,500 (pro rata)

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.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.

About the role

We are looking for a Primary Care Nursing Clinical Adviser to join our Centre of Clinical Expertise (CoCE) team. The CoCE provides clinical insight and guidance and builds credibility with clinical audiences on behalf of Macmillan, so we’re seen as a trusted, relevant, and up to date, clinically informed organisation.

The purpose of this role is to advise and specifically inform one of our four strategic objectives which is to support people with cancer and other long term conditions.

You will act as a subject matter expert drawing on clinical skills and experience to support, service and guide internal programmes of work, as well as providing clinical leadership, insight, knowledge and expertise in the management of people with long term conditions in primary care. You will bring an in-depth understanding of the health and social care landscape and support neighbourhood health work in Macmillan.

You will feed clinical insight to key internal stakeholders to inform relevant projects and workplans, and advise on the development of strategic programmes of work across the organisation to support the achievement of our desired outcomes for people living with cancer.

About you

We’re looking for a nurse with extensive experience in active clinical practice primary care with a particular focus on supporting patients with long term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, dementia, heart failure and cancer.

This is a part-time role and you will need to remain embedded in clinical practice. You will also need to be able to fulfil the required sessional commitment per week and have flexibility with sessional commitments to fulfil the aims of the role.

You will bring the following skills and experience:

• Qualification and continued registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a nurse (essential)
• Extensive experience in active clinical practice, with expertise in supporting people with long term conditions
• Experience in an educational, academic or representational role in primary care, Integrated Care Board, Cancer Alliance and/or other relevant network (desirable but not essential)
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills
• Strong communicator with an engaging style

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

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday 1st March
1st round interview date: Wednesday 18th March
2nd round interview date: Monday 23rd March

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 at 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.