Cancer Services Manager: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

To provide an expert voice in Cancer Services specifically around service improvement and transformation, demonstrating an advanced theoretical knowledge base and practical experience to underpin the role. To provide leadership and expertise in the provision of cancer services by facilitating, enabling and supporting the team in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based care. To lead the Cancer Services Operational Management Team to ensure there is a vision for the future which meets the Trust objectives and reflects national cancer strategy. To provide expertise in improvement, transformation, performance delivery and collaborative working in a fast-paced environment with competing demands. The post holder will provide expert advice on service development ensuring achievement of the national and local agenda with regard to cancer.

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

Main duties of the job

• Work closely with the Deputy Divisional Directors of Operations, Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing, receiving highly complex, sensitive patient and service-related information relating to customer care.
• Work in partnership with Senior Managers, Executive Directors and senior clinicians from all organisations related to cancer services in the network to drive forward the Trust’s cancer plan, in line with national strategy.
• Responsible for overseeing and co-ordinating the development of business plans/cases to support the Trust’s Cancer Strategy. This will involve working closely with the Lead Cancer Nurse/Operational Manager and providing expertise in transformation/service improvement to ensure all service changes are in line with the Trust’s strategy and national guidance.
• Source and triangulate observational findings through analysis of multiple and complex data such as Board papers, CQC reports, quality indicator reports, performance data (published & unpublished), mortality rates, clinical quality indicators, staff surveys and own diagnostic data to ensure achievement of the Trust’s Cancer Strategy and NHSI cancer treatment standards. This will include working closely with all staff involved in the cancer services pathways and obtaining expert clinical opinions which may differ to influence and inform decisions

Person Specification

Our Values

Essential

• We are Kind
• We are Open
• We are Inclusive

Qualifications

Essential

• Master’s Degree or equivalent professional experience at a senior level in a relevant clinical/specialist area
• Management/leadership qualification or equivalent senior management experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development within the relevant clinical profession
• Current professional registration with an appropriate UK clinical regulatory body

Desirable

• PRINCE 2 or other improvement qualification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Experience of project management within healthcare setting
• Extensive professional specialist knowledge in relevant fields gained through post graduate training / qualifications across multiple disciplines e.g. cancer services, service improvement, general management
• Demonstrable experience of involvement in capacity planning, redesign, innovation and change managementXA/I
• Demonstrable experience of business planning and preparation of business cases within the NHS
• Knowledge and understanding of management principles and strategic development and planning healthcare services
• Comprehensive understanding of the national cancer agenda, cancer quality and performance standards, and extensive clinical and/or operational experience of working across complex cancer pathways
• Experience of project management within healthcare setting
• Significant senior clinical/professional leadership experience within a complex healthcare environment
• Demonstrable experience of using clinical expertise to influence service development, pathway redesign, quality improvement and/or transformation.
• Knowledge and experience of clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement and evidence-based practice, with the ability to translate these into service improvement.

Skills

Essential

• Project management skills, including service improvement skills, tools and techniques
• Highly effective communication skills – must be able to articulate highly complex and sensitive issues to a wide range of recipients, both written and verbally in potentially hostile environments
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to influence large and diverse audiences
• Ability to lead change management / organisational change, pulling people together across systems to deliver common aims and targets and ability to effectively manage challenging situations
• Excellent organisational and time management skills to manage and balance competing priorities. Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Able to demonstrate sound financial management skills and understand a business centred approach to healthcare provision
• Frequent requirement for concentration. Work is often unpredictable and requires frequent reprioritisation
• IT skills required to manipulate, analyse and interpret complex information
• Ability to effectively lead a multi-professional team within a complex organisational setting. Demonstrate significant experience of situational leadership, human resource management and people development
• Ability to articulate and communicate a vision with drive, energy and resilience to achieve end results
• Highly self-motivated
• Demonstrable ability to motivate and influence others
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem solving skills
• Time management skills
• Highly developed negotiating/influencing skills
• Ability to prioritise and deliver to short deadlines
• Ability to develop key relationships with external agencies and organisations
• Political awareness with an ability to work across organisational and professional boundaries
• Excellent clinical, professional and strategic leadership skills, with the ability to provide credible senior clinical leadership across professional and organisational boundaries
• Evidence of engagement with and in the Cancer Alliance workstreams
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical, quality, patient experience and performance information and use this to inform decision-making and service improvement
• Ability to constructively challenge clinical and operational practice and influence senior multidisciplinary stakeholders using professional credibility, evidence and sound judgement

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel various hospital locations by own car/ assisted driver

Closing Date: 4 September 2026