Macmillan Health

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has a risen for a Band 7 Macmillan Cancer Health and Wellbeing Manager (formerly known as Macmillan cancer information and support manager) at BHRUT. The position is currently full time, covering Monday to Friday and will be an integral part of the Personalised Cancer care Team. Slightly reduced hours will be considered. BHRUT is a large teaching Trust located in Northeast London. Our Vision is to provide outstanding healthcare to our community, delivered with pride. The oncology department at BHRUT serves a population of approximately 750,000. The Personalised cancer care team are a multi-disciplinary team providing personalised care and support for patients living with a cancer diagnosis from diagnosis and all through the patient’s pathway. The team have been recognised Nationally for their innovation.

You will be responsible for leading on the provision of excellent cancer information and support and continuing the established health and wellbeing sessions for cancer patients and their families. You will also provide line management and responsibility for the complementary therapy service and welfare and benefits service. If you are passionate about supporting cancer patients to have the best experience of care we would love to hear from you. 

Main duties of the job

Continue to develop and manage the Macmillan health and wellbeing service. Help to support delivery of personalised cancer care Trust wide with the Personalised cancer care programme lead with a focus on Holistic needs assessment offered by the PCC Support workers and developing health and wellbeing events. Continue to develop, deliver, and lead a range of health and wellbeing sessions and information in a variety of formats – written, virtual, 1:1 and group Continue to develop, manage and lead the Macmillan Cancer information service Oversee the quality of cancer information produced inhouse by the oncology and haematology teams Trust wide Line manage the complementary therapy team, and benefits advisor

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Cancer services are mainly located on the Queen’s Hospital site in Romford. Romford is an historic market town with excellent road links as well as an easy rail commute into London. There are frequent trains from London Liverpool Street to Romford and the fastest train only takes 15 minutes. Trains also stop at Stratford where the upcoming cross-rail service will make commuting to Romford even easier. The hospital is a 15 minute walk from the train station but there are frequent bus services that drop right outside the main entrance. Romford is an ideal location as there is equal access to central London as well as nearby countryside. There are quality schools in the area and the Trust offers on site car parking.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Person specification

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

Good staff management skills

Experience/Knowledge

Essential criteria

Working with people affected by cancer for at least 5 years Staff Management

Desirable criteria

Previous work with Macmillan Delivered health and wellbeing sessions or workshops Knowledge of business case writing

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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