Trust Lead Cancer Service Manager

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trust Lead Cancer Services Manager at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. This post will work in conjunction with the Associate Medical Director for Cancer and Trust Cancer Lead Nurse to provide leadership and direction for Cancer Services across the Organisation.

We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, dynamic, and experienced Manager to work with us to support the operational teams in the delivery of cancer services, ensuring that cancer care of all patients within the Trust is of a high standard, equitable and consistent and that national targets are met.

The post includes close working and collaborating with both internal and external partners such as clinical and operational teams, relevant stakeholders, patients, and carers to deliver improvements and ensure optimal operational management of services.

Main duties of the job

x To provide leadership and direction for Cancer Services across the Trust in collaboration with the Associate Medical Director and Lead Cancer Nurse

To lead the development of high quality cancer patient pathways and services across the Trust

Support the operational teams in the delivery of cancer services to ensure that the National Cancer standards and targets are met across the Trust.

To maximise the Trust's performance in Quality Surveillance Programme reviews

To manage the Gateshead Health Cancer Centre and associated staff

Support the Associate Medical Director for Cancer in the development of the Trust's Cancer multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs)

To be a key contributor to Trust engagement with commissioners, strategic networks, Northern Cancer Alliance, referring Trusts and NHS England in relation to cancer.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.