Assistant Cancer Performance Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

The Cancer Performance team is looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated and conscientious team player to join the service as an Assistant Cancer Performance Manager.

The directorate is located across three sites (St Mary's Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital), the post holder will be mainly based at Charing Cross Hospital. The department is responsible for supporting the delivery of cancer access targets, clinical datasets, national audits and service improvement programs.

The role involves external stakeholder relationship management with cancer managers across the referral catchment area to ensure effective cancer pathway delivery across North West London. The post holder will support the data collection, data validation and report production required to prepare the upload of Trust Cancer Waiting Times (CWT) data to NHS Digital.

The post will be of interest to those who wish to pursue a career in hospital management and would like to gain more experience in a busy service with a wide variety of challenges. We are looking for someone with experience in cancer performance, who can balance the demands of a very busy workload and is dedicated to delivering excellent patient experience. You will need to have good communication and analytical skills and be able to demonstrate that you can lead and motivate a multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• Delivery of the CWT standards
• Delivery and management of the cancer PTL
• Preventing CWT breaches
• Service improvement
• Data and performance management
• Staff management

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Comprehensive secondary education with a minimum of 5 GCSE's
• Evidence of further education beyond a level or equivalent work experience.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of MDTs and cancer performance.
• Working in an administrative role with management responsibilities.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Comprehensive understanding of the Cancer Waiting Times target
• PC literate with experience of spreadsheets and data manipulation
• Ability to inspire confidence and to lead staff, motivate and involve individuals and teams.
• Ability to establish credibility and develop and maintain effective working relationships at operational and senior management levels.
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals.

Desirable criteria

• Experience with the various aspects of the Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset.
• Understanding of the requirements of the national cancer audits.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 656.3KB)
• Functional requirement form (PDF, 240.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)