Working for our organisation

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Scale workforce competence and confidence by expanding training beyond the current 700+ professionals, embedding domestic abuse awareness as a core component of cancer care
• Improve risk identification and response by introducing DASH risk assessment training
• Create a sustainable legacy through Domestic Abuse Champions training
• Influence future workforce development by embedding Cancer and Domestic Abuse education within curricula
• Showcasing learning and impact at national Macmillan, NHS and VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) conferences.
• Sharing best practice with other Cancer Alliances, charities, and system partners
• Delivering a targeted national online offer for non-SWAG Trusts
• Clear, accessible patient resources (posters, leaflets, digital content) across clinical and community settings
• Targeted awareness sessions
• Integration of domestic abuse guidance into national resources, such as Macmillan’s Relationships and Cancer materials, closing a critical information gap.
• Co-production with victim-survivors through forums and peer support models to ensure services reflect lived experience.
• An inclusive public-facing campaign, delivered with CIC partners such as OUTpatients and Black Women Rising, ensuring culturally competent and intersectional engagement.
• Development of a cancer-specific Duluth Wheel
• A high-profile awareness campaign aligned with the 16 Days of Activism (November 2026) to maximise reach and impact.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience or working towards)
• Extensive experience of the national strategy and local context for Domestic abuse in Cancer including the toolkit to support cancer professionals to identify and respond to signs of domestic abuse in patients with cancer and their carers.
• Advanced practical and technical skills in the design, delivery, and evaluation of education relating to domestic abuse and cancer care.
• Excellent Facilitation and presentation skills – Delivers engaging education sessions, workshops, and training programmes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust, credibility, and effective working relationships across multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams

Desirable criteria

• PGCE or willingness to undertake

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge. The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers. BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview. If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system. The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Bristol NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.

Important

Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.