Highlights
Location: Icon Cancer Centre South Wales (Newport)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time (Mon-Fri, 37.5 hrs per week)

Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Nurse Leader to provide strong clinical and operational leadership within our new cancer centre. This role is accountable for delivering outstanding, patient-centred, evidence-based care while fostering a positive, inclusive culture that reflects Icon's values. We are looking for a Registered Nurse (NMC) with significant post-registration experience in oncology, including SACT competence and a relevant postgraduate qualification or experience.

You will bring proven leadership capability, excellent communication skills and a passion for developing motivated teams, driving clinical quality, and continuously improving patient experience in line with regulatory and governance standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and develop high-quality Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) and radiation oncology services, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred care aligned with national standards and best practice
• Provide effective leadership and management to clinical teams, driving performance, development and a positive, inclusive working environment.
• Oversee clinical governance, quality assurance and regulatory compliance, ensuring adherence to CQC standards and continuous improvement
• Manage operational delivery of the department, including workforce planning, service performance and implementation of new practice.

For more information regarding the core responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

To learn more about this role, or for an informal discussion, please contact the People Team via careers.uk@icon.team

Benefits
Annual Leave: We offer 25 days + bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 3 years' service)
Salary Sacrifice Pension: We offer an auto-enrolment pension from day 1 with a standard contribution of 5% employee, and 4% employer. You can also opt to enhance your contribution to 6%, to which the employer will also contribute 6%.
Life Assurance: We offer a life assurance scheme equivalent to 3 x your annual salary.
Wellbeing: The wellbeing of our people is extremely important to us, and we therefore offer an enhanced Employee Assistance Programme which offers holistic wellbeing support from fully accredited counsellors and psychotherapists, in the form of on-demand advice and counselling for our people and their immediate family. This service covers mental health concerns, financial worries and physical health anxieties.
Reward & Recognition: All staff have access to our 'Ignite' benefits platform where you will have instant access to savings, cashback and reloadable vouchers for hundreds of leading retailers and brands.

Location
Icon UK are proud to be opening a Cancer Centre in Newport, South Wales. The facility is custom-built and will provide state of the art oncology services to our patients. The centre will offer the following services:

• Radiotherapy
• Chemotherapy
• Diagnostic Services

The centre is based just outside of Newport, with convenient access from the M4.

Company Introduction
Icon is a leading integrated healthcare provider with global reach across Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN, the United Kingdom and Germany.

The Group is built on a strong but simple mission – to deliver the best care possible, to as many people as possible, as close to home as possible.

We bring together all aspects of comprehensive cancer care, including medical oncology, radiation oncology, haematology, pharmacy, chemotherapy and sterile compounding, research and theranostics to deliver a true end-to-end seamless service for cancer patients internationally.

Icon Group was established in 2015 and the businesses that form Icon have been pillars of the Australian and ASEAN healthcare community for decades. In 2024, Icon expanded into the UK by bringing Pharmaxo Group into the Icon family, alongside a strategic partnership with Nuffield Health and it’s first cancer centre in Wimbledon, Icon Cancer Centre London. In 2025, we announced our strategic partnership with Evidia in Germany.

With our operations expanding across the globe, this role offers a valuable opportunity to join the team and make an impact.

At the heart of Icon, there is a clear set of values that guide how work, make decision and support one another every day. We are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful and collaborative environment where everyone can thrive and contribute their best. When you join our team, you’ll be a part of a culture that not only talks about its values, but brings them to life in a meaningful way.

To learn more about us, please visit: Cancer care careers UK | Join a growing team at Icon Cancer Centre UK

Next Steps
For more information about our recruitment process, please see the attached Candidate guidance.

Closing Date: 03/09/2026