Job Title: Treatment Support Counsellor

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Contract:
Permanent

Hours:
Part-time (22.5 hours worked over 3 days)

Salary:
£29,000-£31,000 pro-rata, per annum

Location:
This is a home-based role

About UsPenny Brohn UK is the cancer health and wellbeing charity. We help people feel better in mind, body and spirit by offering support through our team of cancer support experts (which includes doctors, nutritionists, counsellors and exercise therapists).

Penny Brohn UK helps people with cancer to feel more physically and emotionally able to manage the impacts of their diagnosis and treatment, be more in control of their choices and have the best quality of life possible. By making our services freely available, our aim is for all people with cancer to be able to access the high-quality support they need.

Penny Brohn UK have been working in partnership with GenesisCare UK, a private healthcare company, since 2013. We deliver an integrated cancer care approach which includes complementary treatment support and lifestyle advice for patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy at all of their 14 centres across the UK.

The roleThis is an exciting opportunity to join our existing team of counsellors working remotely to support cancer patients being treated in the 14 GenesisCare centres across England.

This role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish effective rapport and deliver therapeutic interventions via telephone or video link. We are looking for a professional who can work in a flexible, intelligent, and creative way. Candidates should have experience of working as a counsellor within the NHS, charity sector or private practice, and have knowledge, experience/understanding of how cancer treatment can affect a patient’s health and wellbeing.

Key role considerations

• This role requires remote delivery of counselling sessions.
• Most of the patient work is based on a short-term relationship (4 sessions)

Through the successful partnership with GenesisCare, the treatment support service that we offer to cancer patients has shown to be both statistically and clinically significant. If you are driven to support patients whilst they undergo cancer treatment, this could be the opportunity for you.

In return for your hard work and dedication you will enjoy a wide variety of benefits including:

30 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata)
Enhanced sick pay after six month’s service
Auto enrolment into the Penny Brohn UK pension scheme
Free Life Assurance
Family friendly policies with enhanced maternity and paternity leave after one year of service
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Application Process To apply for this position, please send your CV along with a supporting letter to

jobs@pennybrohn.org.uk(quoting job reference in the subject line). Your covering letter must demonstrate why you are interested in the position, how you meet the criteria detailed in the job description and person specification and what it is that you can bring to the role. Unfortunately, CVs submitted without a supporting letter will not be considered.

If you would like an informal chat with the hiring manager before applying, or for queries, please contact the HR department at the same email address.

For further details with regards to the role, please see the attached job description.

Thank you for considering Penny Brohn UK, we look forward to hearing from you!

Timetable for appointment Closing date:               Thursday 6 November at 9.00am

Interview details: Wednesday 11 November via Teams

Start date: To be agreed upon appointment with successful candidate

At Penny Brohn UK, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout the organisation. We are proactively taking action to support EDI and Wellbeing to support our ethos of creating a diverse culture that is reflective of both our employees and the lived experience of all communities touched by cancer. We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

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