Head of Health Policy, Education and Awareness

7 months ago


London, United Kingdom Prostate Cancer UK Full time

**Region**

London

**Vacancy Type**

Permanent/Full Time

**Job Summary**

**Head of Health Policy, Education and Awareness**

**£57,200 - £62,250 per year**

**Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)**

**Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office**

**What the job involves**

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic, multidisciplinary team focused on driving change and providing education to health professionals across UK health services to end variation in access to support and treatment for men with prostate cancer.

You’ll be responsible for the leadership, governance and operational management of four teams; Education, Improvement Programmes, Black Health Equity Engagement and Policy and Health Influencing; and their work programmes - ensuring collaboration and innovation across teams and functional boundaries to deliver Prostate Cancer UK’s business plan and strategy.

You'll oversee and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across locations, ensuring an integrated approach to change priorities, including public awareness, clinical education, and stakeholder influencing. You'll drive strategic plans to improve health and care pathways across the UK, grow clinical leadership, and support political engagement. You'll champion efforts to tackle health inequalities, strengthen community engagement, and influence policy changes. Ensuring our work reflects the perspectives of those affected by prostate cancer, you'll focus on delivering maximum impact. You'll promote collaboration, maintain high-quality data, and support strategic goals while coaching your team to excel.

**What we want from you**

We’re looking for a proactive, enthusiastic and inspiring leader with a passion and proven track record in directing and driving change in health services and health professional education who has current knowledge of the political environment.

You’ll have a talent for building strong relationships with a range of stakeholders and working collaboratively to ensure the effective delivery of your own areas of responsibility. You’re also skilled in contributing to the collective aims of your organisation.

You’ll be comfortable at programme management and will happily use your expertise to support your team and colleagues as required. You’ll have outstanding communication and presentation skills, credible at senior levels with our partners and stakeholders and you actively enjoy this type of work. You’re an excellent people manager who excels in, and enjoys, developing your team to be collaborative, flexible and resilient to give their best in a busy and changing environment.

**Why work with us?**

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men - prostate cancer. It’s a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men’s health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We’re blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

**What we offer**

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We’ll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

- Generous leave entitlements that increase with service
- One ‘development day’ a month to use for training or personal development
- Enhanced contributory pension scheme
- Life insurance and group income protection
- Health Cash Plan
- Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts
- Loans for season tickets or cycles

**Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion**

At Prostate Cancer UK, we believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace, that represents, and can advocate for, the communities we support. It’s our ambition to become an anti-racist organisation, and our mission to advance racial equity in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

**Our people networks**

We’re continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

- Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues — and our allies — can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people
- Mind & Body - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affecte



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