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Cancer CARE Worker - Fife Carers Centre
Created: 30/06/2026
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Cancer CARE Worker (Culture, Agency, Respect, Equity)Organisation: Fife Carers CentreContract: Fixed term for 2 years (funded by Macmillan Cancer Support)Hours: 35 hours per weekSalary: £33,364.17 per annumLocation: Hybrid - home working and across Fife, with base at 157 Commercial Street, KirkcaldyThis is a brand new post, created through two-year funding from Macmillan Cancer Support. The Cancer CARE Worker will provide independent advocacy, decision-making support, and peer network development for people living with cancer and their unpaid carers across Fife.
CARE stands for Culture, Agency, Respect, and Equity. These four words describe what every person supported through this project should experience.
This is not a Carer Support Worker role. It sits at a higher level of autonomy and complexity, involving one-to-one clinical liaison, co-facilitation with NHS teams, professional training delivery, and leadership of a lived experience co-design process. It requires someone who can hold professional relationships with oncology teams in the morning and sit with a carer in crisis in the afternoon.
People living with cancer and their unpaid carers do not consistently experience meaningful involvement in treatment decisions. People report leaving appointments confused about what was decided. Clinicians report wanting to do better but lacking time and tools. People from culturally diverse communities, those supporting someone with dementia alongside cancer, and those facing poverty face the highest barriers.
Under the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016, carers have a legal right to be involved in decisions about the person they care for, to have their own needs assessed, and to receive support that allows them to participate fully. In practice, many carers do not experience these rights, and this project exists to close that gap.
This project will not replicate or compete with clinical services. It sits alongside them, filling the gap between what health services can offer and what people living with cancer and those who care for them actually need to feel confident and respected in their care.
A full driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle are essential for this role.
Fife Carers Centre is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from people with lived experience of cancer, caring, or from communities that face barriers to accessing health and care services.
How to apply
The full details and application can be found here : Vacancies — Fife Carers Centre
Interview will take place on Monday 27 July 2026.
The closing date for applications is Monday 17 July 2026.
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