East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Directorate Manager - Cancer Services
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Directorate Manager – Cancer Services
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Directorate Manager – Cancer Services to join the Surgery and Anaesthetics Division at ELHT. This key leadership role will drive the delivery of high-quality cancer services, ensuring compliance with national cancer standards, effective governance, and continuous improvement in patient outcomes and experience.
Working alongside the Clinical Director for Cancer Services and Lead Cancer Nurse/Matron, the post holder will form part of the Cancer Leadership Triumvirate, providing strategic and operational leadership across Cancer Services.
The successful candidate will lead on cancer performance, pathway delivery, workforce, finance, governance and implementation of the Trust Cancer Action Plan, working closely with clinical teams and system partners to improve pathways and reduce delays.
We are seeking an inspirational leader with a proven track record of operational management, service improvement and delivering performance within a complex healthcare environment. Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and people management skills are essential, alongside the ability to influence, collaborate and lead change across organisational boundaries.
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Key Responsibilities Include
- Leading cancer performance, pathway delivery and achievement of national cancer waiting time standards.
- Working with the Clinical Director and Lead Cancer Nurse/Matron as part of the Cancer Leadership Triumvirate to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.
- Providing leadership and line management across Cancer Services, supporting staff development and high performance.
- Leading service improvement, transformation and delivery of the Trust Cancer Action Plan.
- Ensuring effective governance, quality assurance, performance reporting and risk management arrangements are in place.
- Developing productive relationships with clinical teams, the Cancer Alliance and wider system partners to improve cancer pathways and patient outcomes.
The post holder will uphold Trust values and the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, promoting collaborative working to enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of cancer services.
Equality and Diversity
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will do all we can to make sure that job applicants and employees do not receive less favourable treatment because of their age, sex, marital status, faith, race, disability or sexual orientation, or for any other reason that is not justified.
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Health and Safety
In accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and other supplementary legislation, all employees are required to follow Trust Health and Safety policies and safe working procedures, take reasonable care to avoid injury during the course of their work, and co-operate with the Trust and others in meeting statutory requirements.
Infection Control
All employees must comply with Prevention and Control of Infection polices and attend any related mandatory training.
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
The Trust attaches great importance to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. It is the responsibility of all members of staff to ensure that the Trust’s resources are used efficiently with minimum wastage throughout their daily activities
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Alison Marsh
Job title: Divisional Director of Operations SAS
Email address: alison.marsh@elht.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07759789156
Please contact via email to discuss.
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