Services coordinator, primary breast cancer (Scotland)

Would you like to make a real impact on the lives of people with breast cancer? Are you passionate about ensuring that people with breast cancer receive the emotional, social and practical support and information that they need? If so, you could be the person we re looking for to join our busy team and help us reach more people through our award-winning services.

About us

We re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you re experiencing breast cancer, we re here.

The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.

About the role

You ll be responsible for the organisation and delivery of our face-to-face and online services for people with primary breast cancer, including coordinating service events, recruiting, training, and working with Moving Forward facilitators and Moving Forward volunteers.

A key part of the role involves developing and maintaining relationships with healthcare professionals and other external stakeholders to promote our services and increase reach and uptake in the West and Borders regions of Scotland.

About you

Do you thrive on challenge? Can you demonstrate a passion for supporting people with breast cancer?

You must have experience of developing and delivering information, health or other support services and have knowledge of the Scottish and wider UK healthcare systems. Your excellent verbal and written communication skills will help you manage successful relationships with a range of different stakeholders, often remotely. You re organised and have excellent time management skills. And you know how to use your initiative and prioritise your workload.

We know that working as part of a busy established team across different geographical sites can be challenging. So you ll need to be a supportive and resilient colleague, potentially supporting services outside of your team s geographical location.

Flexibility to travel and work outside normal office hours, with occasional overnight stays is required.

Job description and benefits

Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.

Primary location of role and hybrid working

This role is primarily based in our Glasgow office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.

When applying

We hope you choose to apply for this role. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you ve any immediate questions please contact Breast Cancer recruitment.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.

Closing date Monday 24 February 2025 at 09:00am

Interview date Week commencing Monday 3 March 2025