Oncology Nurse Advisor
Salford Quays, Manchester
Permanent
£32,000 to £35k,000 pro-rata (depending on experience)
Full time (37.5 hours) per week

This is a Monday to Friday office-based role with flexible start and finish times between 8am-6pm.

A bit about us

We're a leading health insurer and healthcare provider, with care homes, health centres, dental practices and a hospital. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

We believe in quality, affordable and accessible healthcare for all. If you share our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, then look no further, Bupa could be the perfect match.

About the area you'll be working in

We provide a range of health insurance options which can give customers access to diagnosis, treatment and specialist support services. The benefits available to our customers include; access to Bupa-approved consultants, breakthrough treatment and drugs, our 24/7 Anytime HealthLine and cancer cover that comes with the Bupa Cancer Promise.

What you'll be doing

Our Oncology Nurse Advisors provide clinical support, guidance and information to customers through all phases of their cancer diagnosis who are undergoing treatment with Bupa. They use a variety of techniques and methods of communication to support customers with their long term and complex needs to make appropriate and well-informed decisions about their onward healthcare journey.

What's a typical day?

This is a telephone-based case management role where you will be speaking to patients at every stage of their cancer diagnosis to provide practical advice and clinical support relating to any aspect of their care, treatment and symptoms. This will include assessment of eligibility for emerging and high cost treatments, support with hospice and palliative care and ongoing case management.

Who we're looking for?

• A Registered General Nurse with valid PIN
• Specialist experience as a Chemotherapy Nurse, Cancer Services Nurse or Oncology Nurse - Band 6 ideally
• Experience of Hospice care and palliative care also highly desirable
• A strong understanding of cancer treatments and appropriate pathways
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of clinical nursing knowledge
• Ability to handle uncertain situations calmly and professionally
• Ability to handle customer calls with confidence - a good telephone manner is essential
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a strong team player
• Ability to make decisions based on the facts and information available

What's it like to work here?

We want people to 'love working here', so much so that it's at the top of our agenda and something you'll hear a lot about here at Bupa. We offer our people a great range of benefits, many of which are flexible and can be tailored to suit what's most important to you. We're a healthcare company so there's a huge focus on our people's health and wellbeing, supported by a healthy work-life balance and workplaces which are friendly, appealing spaces to support you to be at your best.

Our Salford Quays office is Bupa's flag-ship office which has been specially designed for modern, flexible ways of working. For non-drivers, it's easily accessible by tram from central Manchester.

Benefits

As a Bupa employee you'll be entitled to some fantastic benefits which include 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days as your length of service increases, the option to buy and sell holiday, an enhanced pension plan, life assurance and income protection. You'll join our annual bonus scheme, amount variable dependent upon your role and performance. You can also benefit from our health trust scheme where all our people have the option of taking our market-leading medical insurance cover, which includes mental health support and treatment, at a greatly reduced price as well as a free health assessment every 2 year. You can keep fit at our free onsite gyms (local gym discounts where no onsite gym). We will support you to get to work, offering a season ticket loan to spread the cost of an annual train/bus ticket as well as our cycle to work scheme.

Nurses with Bupa also benefit from:

• Strong national clinical network and clinical engagement
• www.ourbupa.co.uk - website for our clinicians that supports learning, promotes CPD and creates an online clinical community
• CPD calendar and webinars
• Bupa Lecture Series: clinical lectures with external speakers held at academic institutions
• Clinical Leadership development programmes
• Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarships
• Practical support with the revalidation process

Whether you've found your feet or are discovering a new path. Welcome to a place that celebrates you. This isn't where you've been. This is where you're going. This is what we have belief in.

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on the basis of personal merit and qualifications, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.