Centre Head - Aberdeen

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Centre Head to join our team at our Aberdeen centre. 

You will be a healthcare professional, educated to degree level, with a postgraduate qualification in cancer care and at least five years' post-qualification experience and training in cancer care.

As well as experience of working as a member of an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary team, you will have excellent management skills and experience.

Your responsibilities

• Direct and provide strategic leadership for staff in the provision of an integrated programme of cancer support.

• Provide personal input into Maggie’s programme of cancer support, undertaken within the framework of Maggie’s supervisory policies and procedures. This includes:
  • eliciting cancer-related concerns and assessment of the psychological and emotional state of people attending the centre
  • providing and facilitating access to information about diagnosis and treatment and supporting people in developing an understanding of information
  • providing frontline psychological and emotional support to people affected by cancer and ensuring access for them to all appropriate aspects of Maggie’s programme
  • facilitating psycho-educational elements of Maggie’s programme including networking groups, courses, workshops and lectures.

• In collaboration with the centre psychologist, undertake and ensure that psychological risk assessment in relation to people accessing the centre and its programme of support is undertaken.

• Ensure that all programme materials and resources are up to date, relevant and comprehensive, and that these are maintained and utilised effectively in the provision of the programme of cancer support.

• Ensure that people accessing the centre and the programme are made to feel welcome, special and valued as individuals and that their concerns have been heard and understood.

• Maintain the centre as a warm and welcoming environment in support of programme provision, ensuring that the centre environment is maintained in accordance with Maggie’s policies and procedures, in order to ensure effective and efficient programme provision.

• Promote access by raising awareness of, and marketing, the centre and its programme of support within the healthcare and local communities.

Benefits we offer

In addition to a highly rewarding career, we offer a range of staff benefits, including:

• a unique, experiential induction based in one of our centres 
• a structured, year-round performance review process focused on developing you in your current role and exploring opportunities for the future
• a competitive holiday entitlement
• workplace pension with the option to apply to continue NHS pension
• the option to apply for a Bike Loan, Travel Card Loan, Ride to Work scheme and much more.

Read more about our staff benefits

How to apply

Take a look at the full job description Centre Head Band 8a Aberdeen.pdf

Please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@maggies.org by 23 February 2024 at 06 pm.

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