Deputy Cancer Support Manager - INTERNAL in Newport inNewport PUBLISHED SUN 18 MAY 2025 Jump to job information section

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on option 3.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY ANEURIN BEVAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD

In conjunction with and under the direction of the Support Manager and Cancer Services Manager, on a day-to-day basis,

manage the team within Cancer Services ensuring all Health Board personnel policies are observed.

• Ensuring that all cancer site-specific specialist Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) have an MDT Co-ordinator present to co-ordinate and attend weekly meetings.
• To ensure that all information collated by MDT Co-ordinators is done so in a timely and accurate manner.
• In conjunction with the Support Manager, Cancer Services, ensure any blockages in the pathway that have been escalated
  
  

are addressed as a matter of priority.

• To ensure that patients that are at risk of not being treated within predefined timescales are escalated to the appropriate
  
  

personnel.

• In conjunction with the Support Manager, Cancer Services, to be responsible for all weekly, monthly and annual reports sent
  
  

internal and external to the organisation.

• In the absence of the Support Manager, Cancer Services, to undertake this role on a temporary basis to ensure service
  
  

continuity at all times

Main duties of the job

• In conjunction with the Cancer Services Support Manager act as a motivational leader to all staff within Cancer Services
• To communicate effectively within the department contributing ideas for improvement, development and smooth running of the
  
  

department.

• To liaise effectively with Lead Clinicians, Clinicians & other non-clinical professionals in the functional support of MDT
• To communicate complex and sensitive cancer patient information with the Lead Clinicians, Clinicians & other non-clinical
  
  

professionals and external bodies (Other NHS HB’s, Private Clinical Organisations & NHS executive)

• To liaise effectively with lead clinicians on any issues relating to MDT’s functionality.
• To represent the Health Board in meetings with other Cancer Services Coordinators across the region
• To attend and in the absence of the Cancer Support Manger take the lead in Cancer Staff meetings
  
  

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a Cancer Services environment
• Sound knowledge of the WAG Cancer Standards and Single Cancer Pathway
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous management experience
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate with staff from a broad spectrum of areas
• Excellent working knowledge of HB IT systems, such as PAS, Clinical Workstation and ORMIS
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Welsh language skills