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Job Title: Training and Quality Manager
Ref: TQM434
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part Time, 30 hours a week (worked over 4 days)
Salary: £37,000 - £39,000 per annum. pro-rata
Location: Home based with travel to GenesisCare centres across England and the Penny Brohn UK National Centre in Bristol.

About Us

Penny Brohn UK is the cancer health and wellbeing charity. We help people feel better in mind, body and spirit by offering support through our team of cancer support experts (which includes doctors, nutritionists, counsellors and exercise therapists)

Penny Brohn UK helps people with cancer to feel more physically and emotionally able to manage the impacts of their diagnosis and treatment, be more in control of their choices and have the best quality of life possible. By making our services freely available, our aim is for all people with cancer to be able to access the high-quality support they need.

Penny Brohn UK have been working in partnership with GenesisCare UK, a private healthcare company, since 2013. We deliver an integrated cancer care approach which includes complementary treatment support and lifestyle advice for patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy at all of their 14 centres across the UK. For over 40 years, Penny Brohn UK has supported people with cancer to feel more physically and emotionally able to manage the impacts of their diagnosis and treatment, be more in control of their choices and have the best quality of life possible.

The role

We are excited to be recruiting a Training and Quality manager, and we are seeking to appoint an experienced individual who can assist in the training of staff and quality processes of a team embedded in 14 different GenesisCare cancer treatment centres.

The individual we are looking for will:

• Assist with the recruitment, induction, and management of new Wellbeing Consultants and therapists
• Manage, support and lead five established Wellbeing Consultants  
• Lead Quality for the partnership between GenesisCare and Penny Brohn UK
• Deputise for Head of Services when necessary

In return for your hard work and dedication you will enjoy a wide variety of benefits including:

• 30 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata)
• Enhanced sick pay after six month’s service
• Auto enrolment into the Penny Brohn UK pension scheme
• Free Life Assurance
• Family friendly policies with enhanced maternity and paternity leave after one year of service
• Specsavers Corporate eyecare test
• Cycle to work scheme

Timetable for appointment
Closing date: 9.00am on Monday 2 December
Interview date(s):
1st Interview via Teams, Thursday 5 December  
2nd Interview in person, Tuesday 10 December at the Penny Brohn UK National Centre, Pill, Bristol, BS20 0HH
Start date: ASAP, to be agreed upon appointment with successful candidate
Please note: The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. To avoid disappointment, we suggest that applications are made as soon as possible.

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

At Penny Brohn UK, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout the organisation. We are proactively taking action to support EDI and Wellbeing to support our ethos of creating a diverse culture that is reflective of both our employees and the lived experience of all communities touched by cancer. We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

No agencies please.

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