Job Description

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 12 months covering Family Leave

Hours: Full time (34.5 hours) , we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours

Location: Macmillan Horizon Centre, Brighton

Salary Range: 48,000 - 52,000

About the role

It's an exciting time to join Macmillan Cancer Support as we have launched our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.




In this rewarding role you will manage the delivery of psychological support and other wellbeing options provided by the Horizon centre for people living with cancer across Sussex.




You will provide specialist psychological support services yourself, while leading and supporting a large volunteer team who provide therapy, as well as mentoring and assessing around 12 student placements.




As volunteers are so crucial to the success of the Macmillan Horizon Centre, your ability to support, motivate and develop a team of volunteers will be essential.




You will also work in collaboration with the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust psychological therapy team, other partners and volunteers, to develop an integrated approach to the delivery of psychological support.

About you:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:


BACP or UKCP accredited post graduate (Level 7) Counsellor / Psychotherapist qualification (essential requirement) Experience of providing counselling and assessing people for counselling with a health condition (including experience of cancer) Knowledge and understanding of legislation and models of best practice applicable to psychological support therapies.
Experience in coaching, supporting and working with a team of volunteers (desirable) or a group of individuals

Experience in stakeholder management, including the ability to build, develop and influence relationships both internally and externally.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days Pension matched up to 7.5% 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

About Us:

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.



Our new organisational strategy sets out how we'll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we'll transform cancer care for good.

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Sunday 13th July


Interviews will be held on

Wednesday 23rd July

The interview will be

in person

at the Macmillan Horizon Centre, Brighton and will consist of a panel interview, task and a tour of the centre.



To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.



So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.