Cancer Performance Manager

Job description

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

The Cancer Performance Manager is responsible for leading and delivering the Trust-wide cancer performance agenda, ensuring compliance with national cancer waiting time standards, quality requirements, national audits and strategic cancer objectives.

The post holder will provide operational and strategic leadership for cancer performance across all tumour pathways, working in partnership with clinical leaders, operational managers, corporate teams and external stakeholders to achieve sustained improvements in patient outcomes and service performance.

The post holder will lead the development, implementation and monitoring of cancer performance improvement programmes, ensuring robust governance, accurate reporting and effective pathway management. They will act as a specialist expert in cancer performance and national standards, providing assurance to senior management, Trust Boards and external organisations.

The post holder will deputise for the OSM for Cancer Services on matters relating to cancer performance, cancer waiting times, pathway management and associated quality programmes.

Main duties of the job

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the Trust-wide cancer performance improvement agenda to ensure sustainable achievement of national standards.
• Develop and implement cancer recovery and improvement programmes across all tumour sites.
• Provide expert advice to clinical and operational teams regarding Cancer Waiting Time standards and national guidance.
• Maintain a strategic overview of the national cancer agenda and ensure local services remain aligned to national policy and best practice.
• Lead the development of annual cancer improvement plans and associated delivery trajectories.
• Represent Cancer Services at Trust, regional and national groups and forums.

Performance Management

• Lead responsibility for monitoring, forecasting and reporting cancer performance against all national standards.
• Ensure robust processes are in place for 28-day Faster Diagnosis Standard, 31-day treatment, 62-day referral-to-treatment standards and management of long wait patients.
• Oversee the delivery of accurate Cancer Waiting Time reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure effective escalation and management of high-risk pathways and performance concerns.
• Produce and present performance reports to Cancer Board, Divisional Boards, Executive Committees and external bodies.
• Lead Trust-wide cancer performance meetings and recovery groups.

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Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

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