Head of Cancer- Band 8C

United Lincolnshire Hospitals; Lincoln; Hybride; GBP 80 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NHS Pension

Annual Leave: 27–33 days + bank

Bank working at enhanced rates

Résumé du poste

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a strategic Head of Cancer to lead the Cancer Centre and multiple clinical teams. The role requires driving cancer performance targets, coordinating with clinical leads, and ensuring high-quality patient care across Lincolnshire.

The post demands strong leadership, change management expertise, and a patient-centred approach, with experience in cancer services being advantageous for success in this senior role.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in complex health care settings.
• Knowledge of cancer services and multi-disciplinary teams (advantageous).
• Strong change-management and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsabilités

• Provide leadership to Clinical Leads and Service Managers across all Divisions of Cancer Services.
• Ensure divisions deliver cancer performance targets, waiting lists, and workforce plans.
• Drive service improvement and collaborate with clinical teams to improve patient care and outcomes.

Description du poste

We are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the community it serves and welcome applicants from all sectors of the community.

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 Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

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 Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group 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 ismore.

• 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.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

We are looking for an ambitious and talented senior leader with a flair for high-quality management and administration for the role of Head of Cancer to lead our Cancer Centre and wider multi-disciplinary teams to improve services for cancer patients at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) Reporting to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer the Head of Cancer will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our Cancer Centre as part of the Chief Operating Officer's portfolio, this is a demanding role with influence and impact across the whole Trust and beyond, so it will require good stakeholder management skills via clear communications and visible leadership to create the impact required.

This is a key leadership position where you'll ensure the achievement of cancer performance targets and work collaboratively with clinical teams and divisional teams to improve patient care and outcomes. This will require you to have experience and knowledge of change management tools and techniques, whilst at the same time ensuring that the patient is at the centre of everything you do. Experience and knowledge of cancer services will be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide leadership and expert management support to Clinical Leads and Service Managers across all Divisions who hold responsibility for specific Cancer Services.

This will include providing support and constructive challenges to ensure divisions deliver services and performance standards in line with the overall strategy.

The post holder will have operational responsibility for the Cancer Centre to ensure that all cancer performance targets including waiting lists, finance, workforce and service improvement targets are achieved.

You will have a track record of demonstrable leadership, being a role model for high-quality values and behaviour, and the proven ability to lead or support transformational change in order to improve how we do things. It will be critical that you have the ability to inspire staff, stimulate innovation and collaboration, and strive for the highest standards of performance. As a financially astute manager, you will also be fully committed to delivering services as efficiently as possible.
If this sounds like just the challenge you've been looking for, then we look forward to hearing from you!

Working for our organisation

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.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in 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.

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