Job summary
Employer heading
Cancer Centre Team Manager - Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
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Job overview
- To provide support to the Cancer Delivery Manager with sustaining, improving and delivering cancer services in-line with National and Network level Standards.
- To provide day to day management of the Cancer Pathway Co-ordinators & Cancer Administrators
- To lead on provision of weekly and monthly Trust performance reports against the National Cancer Waiting Times Standards and to quality assure Cancer data and reports
- To lead on provision of clinical performance information and to quality assure Cancer Centre data and reports
- To lead on the capture of data for Local, Network and National Clinical Audits
- To coordinate the delivery of the Cancer Accreditation Peer Review Continual Assessment Programme for the Trust
- To support the Business Units in sustaining Cancer Waiting Times by working with the Business Units to address Cancer Pathway Delivery issues
- To provide support to the Cancer Centre Manager relating to Cancer Service initiatives as required
- To provide system administration for the Somerset Cancer Register used for cancer data capture
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the day to day management and prioritisation of workloads of the Cancer Pathway Co-ordinator and Administrators
- To lead on the training of Cancer Pathway Co-ordinators and Administrators
- Create, plan and carry forward training packages to ensure that the Cancer Team receive the correct teaching to allow the development of audit processes. Also, identify gaps in training needs and work with the Cancer Delivery Manager to ensure these gaps are filled.
- Contribute to the specification of new Cancer Information systems and ensure that they are capable of meeting local and national requirements. Together with the Information Dept and ICT, support the Cancer Delivery Manager with the implementation of new software and support the process of acceptance testing to ensure that both business and user requirements are met.
- To be responsible for the system administration and access rights of the Cancer Wait Times system, including validation of cancer wait times records prior to upload onto Open Exeter.
- To support the Cancer MDT Leads and their teams with the delivery of cancer services to the required Cancer Peer Review Accreditation levels
- Be aware of current issues such as the Trust IT strategy, EPR, National Cancer Information Strategy, National Cancer Minimum Dataset such that any further development on cancer systems remains in line with current issues.
- To assist the Cancer Delivery Manager with other cancer service developments as required.
Working for our organisation
Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Have a look at the job description and person specification, if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution.
Person specification
Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)
Essential criteria
- Degree or proved graduate level ability or equivalent
- Evidence of on-going professional development
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven track record in staff management
- Understands the NHS and an Acute Trust environment and the obstacles in achieving Trust priorities
- Thorough Understanding of: • Cancer Services in Acute setting • Cancer Reform Strategy (DH2007) • Improving outcomes guidance A Strategy for Cancer (DH 2011) • National Cancer Plan • The National Cancer Performance Standards • Multi disciplinary Team working within Cancer • National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) • Cancer Peer Review Accreditation Programme
Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Possess and evidence interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrate experience of making presentations, negotiation and influencing skills
- Project management skills
- Ability to use information to effectively support the improvement of performance
- Able to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment
- Ability to communicate effectively – both verbal and written and able to demonstrate good listening skills.
- Ability to convert agreed plan into key operational objectives and ensure that these are achieved
- Ability to work under pressure, rapid pace, change and uncertainty. Demonstrates a flexible approach to working, and producing work of a high standard to tight deadlines
- Demonstrates personal credibility and integrity at all times.
- Demonstrates the ability to empower team members and leads by example
- Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders, including clinical workforce
- Ability to generate and share best practice and new ways of working in a professional and championing manner.
- Demonstrates confidence when providing advice and support to managers and staff.
- Ability to build authentic business-based relationships with peers, managers, colleagues and the wider NHS community
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of Clinical Governance and related matters
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Mobile across the Trust and Region
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jess Triffitt
- Job title
- Cancer Centre Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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