Cancer Support Nurse

Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share or full-time basis

Salary: Up to £44,000 depending on experience plus an excellent benefits package

Location: Flexible, with travel to our Swindon office at least twice per month

 

Closing date for applications: 13th August 2025

 

         

The opportunity: 

 

Are you a Registered General Nurse (RGN, RN, RNA) with experience and passion for working with people on their cancer journey? We are growing our cancer support nurse team and this is a unique opportunity, and we would love to hear from you!    

 

We are an award-winning insurer and in house medical rehabilitation team, supporting many various health and wellbeing initiatives for customers and their colleagues, including early intervention in sickness absence to enable rehabilitation support for people to return to work. We also heavily support health and wellbeing training and development resources for our customers. 

 

We are seeing more people struggling with various concerns in their cancer journey and realise we can enable more specific support for them. This area of service will sit within our rehabilitation team but will focus on holistic listening and support by telephone and Teams meetings with our members and potentially their employers.  You will also work with our existing medical rehabilitation and claims teams. There is an element of report writing and a need to be able to demonstrate core competenticies in basic IT skills. The role is fully supported with comprehensive induction and ongoing training and support.

 

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

 

What will you be doing? 

 

We will support you in using your medical skills to enable an active listening service to support our members in coping with the news of a cancer diagnosis, further explaining possible treatment and surgery pathways, reassuring, and supporting through treatment and its affects, as well as potentially liaising with treating teams.

A significant part of the role will focus on mental and physical wellbeing coaching and for some, rebuilding confidence.  Where possible, you will support our customers and their colleagues in their rehabilitation to a point that they feel confident to return to work.  We also appreciate that for some on this journey they may not be able to return to work and the support is none the less important for them.

 

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

 

• Supporting employees at all stages of their cancer journey as required. Using your up-to-date clinical knowledge effectively and sensitively
• Working effectively with the Zurich Corporate Risk (ZCR) Rehabilitation team, Claims Case Manager, employers and employees and their medical advisors
• Fully demonstrating your post registration medical skills, knowledge, best practice guidelines, NMC code of conduct adherence and research-based evidence in all activities

• When indicated, enabling, supporting, and evaluating appropriate effective short term specific treatment provision through the Zurich provider network

• Actively encouraging knowledge transfer into Zurich claims and rehabilitation service departments to progress and update all colleagues’ levels of medical competence and confidence
• Demonstrate the ability to make a positive contribution to an individuals support at the most challenging time for them and contribute to ZCR business and customer ethical support while working with likeminded team members.

 

What are we looking for?

 

To be successful in this role, you will be a highly skilled, and personable nurse who has maintained their Nursing registration with cancer-based expertise. It is important you can evidence development and have the ability to effectively organi