General Manager for Cancer Services - Bank / Locum

CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in London seeks a General Manager for Cancer Services for a 12 month secondment. The role involves leading operational delivery, ensuring compliance with cancer waiting times, and improving patient care pathways. Candidates should have strong leadership experience and a comprehensive understanding of cancer services. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence strategic directions within a diverse healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational leadership roles, ideally in healthcare.
• Strong understanding of cancer services and performance metrics.
• Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Trust's Cancer Services for a 12 month period.
• Support the Director of Cancer with operational service delivery.
• Ensure provision of high quality patient services.
• Drive improvements in National Cancer Wait Standards.

Skills

Leadership

Operational performance management

Cancer care pathway management

Strong partnership working

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead the Trust's Cancer Services for a 12 month secondment covering maternity leave. The role of the General Manager for Cancer supports the Director of Cancer with the delivery of operational cancer services and Cancer Waiting Times performance, working with primary care, NHSE, RM Partners, Macmillan and the South West London Cancer Alliance. This is a key senior leadership role with an emphasis on operational delivery and performance, but also contributing to strategic direction of cancer and clinical pathways across the Trust. The role provides strong local leadership to balance strategic plans with operational needs to ensure robust delivery. It supports the Trust in ensuring the provision of high quality patient services that are clinically sound, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trust's priorities and performance targets. Working closely with the Clinical Leads for Cancer and Lead Cancer Nurses, the role is pivotal in ensuring the patients on the urgent suspected cancer pathways are treated in line with the Planned Care and Cancer workstream of the Trust's Operational Recovery Programme. Excellent partnership working with clinical directorates, clinical support services and SWL sector is essential to ensure recovery of cancer services. The role of the General Manager for Cancer supports the Directorates and Trust in ensuring the provision of high quality patient services that follow clinical best practice pathways, delivered cost effectively whilst meeting the Trust's priorities and performance targets. The post holder will be a key driver of improvement particularly with regards to the National Cancer Wait Standards, early diagnosis and implementation of one stop pathways and ensuring we close the gap of health inequalities within the borough.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Trust's Cancer Services for a 12 month secondment covering maternity leave.
• Support the Director of Cancer with the delivery of operational cancer services and Cancer Waiting Times performance, working with primary care, NHSE, RM Partners, Macmillan and the South West London Cancer Alliance.
• Provide strong local leadership to balance strategic plans with operational needs to ensure robust delivery of high quality patient services that are clinically sound, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trust's priorities and performance targets.
• Work closely with the Clinical Leads for Cancer and Lead Cancer Nurses to ensure the urgent suspected cancer pathways are treated in line with the Planned Care and Cancer workstream of the Trust's Operational Recovery Programme.
• Partner with clinical directorates, clinical support services and SWL sector to recover cancer services.
• Drive improvement in National Cancer Wait Standards, early diagnosis, implementation of one stop pathways and close the gap of health inequalities within the borough.

About the Employer

Band 8c

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity. Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon and our Children's Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital. Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff. As well as offering access to a range of core skills training and professional development.

Band 8c

Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow. Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people's homes all across the borough. We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action - our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.