Job Overview
The Cancer Performance Manager will work in conjunction with the Cancer Performance Lead to develop and drive forward the Trust’s cancer strategy, implement the NHS Cancer Strategy, the NICE Guidance for Cancer Services and prepare for the Quality Surveillance Annual Declarations.
* The post holder will be an active member of the Cancer Unit Steering Groups, Cancer Team Meeting and other relevant Cancer Performance Groups.
* The post holder will be responsible for monitoring cancer performance across all tumour groups against national and local targets. This involves being fully conversant with the various trust and cancer information systems, and being able to extract and manipulate data.
* This is a key management role with specific responsibility for managing the Cancer Unit Team.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the operational management and the effective and efficient delivery of services provided within the cancer department, supporting the cancer management team and Clinical Lead for Cancer, ensuring effective coordination and management of agreed national and local performance patient-related targets.
The Cancer Performance Manager will manage the cancer department administrative teams including MDT coordinators, Cancer Trackers, and any other administrative staff in Cancer Services.
The Cancer Performance Manager will work with colleagues within the corporate divisions (e.g. Nursing, Human Resources, Finance, Clinical and Corporate Governance, Facilities) as necessary.
The Cancer Performance Manager will also have responsibility for ensuring all Trust wide systems and processes are in place in order to manage accurate timely reporting of national targets and is responsible for leading on data submissions, data collection and producing information relating to cancer patients within the Trust. This includes data around the national Cancer Waiting Times, the Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset and national and/or local cancer audits.
The Cancer Performance Manager will ensure that data collection mechanisms are robust to enable the Trust to meet all Cancer Waiting Times and cancer data submission targets and support and ensure good adherence to day-to-day tracking processes.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Bachelor’s Degree
* ECDL/Competent with Microsoft Office
Desirable criteria
* Postgraduate management qualification
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Project management qualification (PRINCE2/Agile)
Performance and Operational Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience in leading and managing a team
Desirable criteria
* Relevant recent experience in oncology/Cancer Services
Professional/ Specialist/ Functional Experience
Essential criteria
* Operational management
* Change management
* Service and Business planning
* Project management
* Multi-professional working
* Analytical and assessment skills
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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