At Beatson Cancer Charity we support and enhance the treatment, care and wellbeing of current, former and future cancer patients and their families. We work in partnership with the NHS, The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre (BWoSCC) and all related facilities. We also offer the wider community a unique opportunity to contribute to the advancement of cancer care.

We are looking for two Counsellors to join our Outreach Services team to provide high quality holistic level three support for people impacted by cancer through 1:1 counselling and possibly group work. The Counsellors will be responsible for the ongoing delivery of 1:1 Counselling sessions, supporting people with distress relating to cancer. They will deliver sessions, conduct pre and post intervention evaluation measures, and input into the project’s wider overall aims and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

• Provide a holistic assessment of the needs of people affected by cancer and their suitability for psychological intervention.
• To deliver evidence-based 1:1 counselling and psychotherapeutic interventions for people affected by cancer up to Psychological Therapies and Support Framework Level 3.
• Develop an understanding of presenting difficulties and implement and evaluate therapeutic programmes for clients, drawing on appropriate theories, models and measures.
• To co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of people presenting with psychological difficulties.
• To communicate, with a high degree of skill and sensitivity, complex information while working with people to understand their personal difficulties and develop individual treatment interventions in collaboration with them.
• To undertake risk assessment and management, including suicide risk and safeguarding of vulnerable people, and escalate these promptly as required.
• Ability to recognise limits of own competence and make appropriate referrals, when necessary, either for specialist services or when the counsellor's expertise is not suited to the client's need.
• Ability to access and use clinical supervision and professional support systems effectively, in accordance with relevant professional body’s recommended minimum requirements.

Professional

• A strong ability to engage and form therapeutic relationships with people affected by life limiting health conditions.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to enable the management of stressful and highly emotive situations.
• Support the management team in the development of the counselling service in accordance with the strategic aims of the charity.
• Regularly engage in clinical and professional supervision in line with professional standards.
• Keep up to date with mandatory training and commit to continuing professional development in line with professional standards and charity strategy.
• Assist and participate in on-going audit/evaluation of the counselling service and contribute to clinical outcome data.
• Adherent to GDPR requirements and maintain the highest level of clinical record keeping.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation and national and local guidance in mental health and Psycho-oncology.

Essential Candidate Criteria

• Postgraduate level or equivalent qualification in counselling or psychotherapy.
• Accredited by a Professional Standards Authority recognised professional body (e.g. BACP, BABCP; COSCA, UKCP).
• Skilled and experienced Counsellor.
• Experience working in a busy clinical environment.
• Experience of managing a busy caseload.
• Experience of supporting people with long term health conditions.
• Highly developed assessment and treatment planning skills.
• Ability to work flexibly across different services.
• Strong personal values and a valued based approach to work.
• Able to be on site/travel and be flexible to deliver services in a range of locations if required.
• A successful PVG check for working with Protected Adults.

Desirable Candidate Criteria

• Additional training in appropriate areas of psychological therapy (e.g. trauma-focused approaches, acceptance and commitment therapy).
• Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to the people affected by cancer (patients, carers and family) including:
  • Biopsychosocial Impact of cancer and treatment.
  • Presenting challenges associated with the adjustment to a life limiting illness.
  • Fear of cancer recurrence.
  • Living with a rare or non-curative diagnosis or uncertain prognosis.
  • Loss, grief and bereavement.
  • Mental health/dual diagnosis.
• Sound understanding of evaluation and research.
• Have previous experience working within a setting providing psychological support with people living with cancer.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.

Reporting to:Outreach Services Manager

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Health Defence Lead (Grampian & East) you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people at risk of developing or living with our conditions to live life to the full. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

The Health Defence Lead (Grampian & East) is a key role as part of the expansion of our Prevention Services. The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of the Health Defence program within the designated areas as well as contributing to the overall offer across the country.

The role includes leading a team of Health Defence Coordinators, based in our hub venues, delivering health checks; healthy lifestyle workshops; working with key partner organisations and supporting lifestyle change to reduce the risk of our conditions in communities where there is a high prevalence of health inequalities and deprivation.

The role will involve regular travel to different locations, primarily across Grampian and the East of Scotland, overnight stays on occasion and would suit a flexibly minded and motivated individual who enjoys variety in their working week. The successful candidate will work closely with the existing Health Defence Lead (West based) to optimise our profile and reach through our service offer.

The Health Defence Lead will also be expected to support the Deputy Head of Prevention Services with the integration of Health Defence across CHSS while working closely with colleagues across the wider services directorate to enable delivery of our No Life Half Lived strategy.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”. In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as an Assistant Shop Manager you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Shop Manager for our portobello store. You’d be responsible for leading a team to engage with the community to deliver the set Key Performance Indicators. You will have the autonomy to be innovative in achieving your targets.

This position involves working 13 hours per week, scheduled over 2 out of 7 days, which include alternate weekends. The role requires a flexible approach, particularly providing cover during staff holidays or other absences.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.

We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

About the role and what we’re looking for

What will you be doing?

• Championing the needs of supporters, who are known as Curestarters. You’ll take time to understand their needs and commission new market research to unlock new insights.
• Leading campaigns to drive Brand awareness and grow income. You’ll manage a calendar of marketing activity to engage and inspire Curestarters.
• Overseeing our media mix. You’ll lead on media planning for the charity and spend time keeping your advertising knowledge up to date.
• Learning and testing. You’ll lead on reporting for your campaigns and collaborate with colleagues or agency partners to ensure we have the insight to develop new tests to help us improve.
• Managing our partners. You’ll be the lead manager with our advertising partner, with the opportunity to work with our creative, market research, and digital development partners.
• Demonstrating our values. As a Curestarter, you’ll demonstrate our values every day - curious, united, real, entrepreneurial and spirited – as you help bring about our vision that no life is cut short by cancer.

What are we looking for?

• As a customer-centric marketer, you’re comfortable using segmentation, market research, and campaign insights to inform your decision-making.
• You’ve got a breadth of knowledge through using multiple channels, with a strong experience in digital, specifically search pay per click, digital display, and paid social.
• You’re a collaborative person who works respectfully in a diverse team of experts to deliver work that makes an impact.
• As a detailed planner and organiser, you thrive on deadlines and feel confident prioritising your time across multiple, concurrent projects.

Who are we?

At Worldwide Cancer Research, we start new cures. Cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but cutting-edge science can give us hope. Discovery research seeks to uncover new knowledge that could change the way we think about cancer. It reveals new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer that can save lives.

We actively seek unconventional and imaginative ideas from scientists at all stages of their career, across the globe. In some cases, we are the only organisation that will fund a scientist’s idea. We take an unbiased approach to research funding by focusing on supporting only the best ideas for new cures. By having a diverse research portfolio, we increase our chances of finding breakthroughs.

Our vision is of a day when no life is cut short by cancer, and we believe we can achieve this by starting the life-saving advances of the future by sowing the seeds of discoveries. Anyone that helps bring forward breakthroughs – including our staff, our supporters, and the researchers we fund – is a Curestarter.

As a charity, we are committed to opportunity without barriers, and we are striving to seek, value and learn from different perspectives and experiences. We want Worldwide Cancer Research to be an inclusive organisation – where everyone can be themselves and feel valued – as diverse as the scientific community we fund and the families whose lives we impact.

We are committed to ensuring that we provide equal opportunities to every applicant regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We aim to ensure that our recruitment process is unbiased and that everyone is treated equitably because our team members are at the heart of everything we do to start new cancer cures around the world.

To help start new cancer cures and save lives, we are looking for a Marketing Manager to join the busy Marketing & Supporter Experience team at Worldwide Cancer Research, to help the charity run its multi-million-pound funding programme for discovery cancer research.

Hours:Full time and fixed term for 12 months. 35 hours a week over core working hours of 10am – 3pm, Monday to Friday, with a one-hour lunch break. The office is open 8am – 7pm daily and our hybrid working policy requires all full-time employees to work at least two days a week in the Edinburgh office.

Benefits: 10% employer pension contribution; private medical insurance; employee assistance programme and counselling service; enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay; enhanced sick pay; 31 days’ paid holiday/year plus four paid winter public holidays; 2-weeks fully remote working/year; three paid carer days/year; death in service benefit; cycle to work and travel season ticket schemes.

To support the Team’s work-life balance, we work a nine-day fortnight where the charity is closed every second Friday.