Health Promotion Nurse (Registered Adult Nurse)
Health Promotion Nurse (Registered Adult Nurse)
Salary: £26 per hour
Reports to: Cancer Awareness Nurse Manager
Department: Policy, Information and Communications
Location: Based in London, covering London and the surrounding areas. There may be further travel required to other areas around England as and when required.
Employment type: Casual Worker
Working hours: We expect to offer a minimum of 8 shifts per year, but the average is between 8 and 48 shifts dependent on availability and willingness to travel. Hours will be arranged on an ad hoc basis. Typical working days vary and may occasionally include weekends, evening, or night work.
Closing date: Thursday 20 March 2025, 23:55
Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are looking for a Health Promotion Nurse to join us. You’ll join a team of Nurses that provides vital cover where needed to Cancer Research UK’s nurse-led face-to-face cancer awareness and health promotion activity across the UK.
In this role, you’ll inform and empower people to make positive changes for their health and promote early diagnosis through providing face-to-face information in underserved audiences.
What will I be doing?
* Face-to-face delivery of the latest cancer prevention and early detection information in an appropriate and relevant way.
* Delivering face-to-face cancer awareness activities for people at their place of work with our Cancer Awareness in the Workplace team – typically health information stands and occasionally short presentations.
* Providing cover on the Cancer Awareness Roadshow, working alongside a small team to engage the public in indoor and outdoor community settings through individual face-to-face conversations.
* Supporting other cancer awareness activities and Cancer Research UK events.
* Representing Cancer Research UK in a positive and professional way and ensuring that all information shared is in line with CRUK’s core messages.
* Responsible for collecting and inputting data for evaluation purposes and contributing to other general feedback.
* Ensuring familiarity with local stats and local health information sheets to tailor activity and enable effective signposting to local services.
What skills are you looking for?
* Registered Adult Nurse - NMC registration is mandatory for this role and must always be maintained.
* An interest in or experience of at least one of the following: health promotion, practice nursing, occupational health, health visiting, district/community nursing or other relevant qualification/experience.
* Excellent verbal communication skills – an ability to engage people in conversation and to use motivational interviewing techniques while ensuring accuracy of information conveyed.
* Strong oral presentation skills, with the ability to convey clear and accurate information confidently and pitched appropriately for the audience.
* A clear, demonstrable understanding of boundaries and of the importance and need for always adhering to data protection and other compliance policies.
* Experience in delivering public-facing work, and a good understanding of the challenges associated with engaging underserved groups and addressing health inequalities.
* Excellent written, administration and organisation skills with the ability to keep accurate confidential records.
* Willingness to travel, including occasional unsocial hours work or overnight stays.
What will I gain?
Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.
In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
We review pay annually and aim to recognise individual performance and achievements.
We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.
Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.
How do I apply?
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview.
Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk.
Please note that, Internally, this role is known as Cancer Awareness Bank Nurse.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 0 20 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
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