Job summary
Employer heading
Cancer Team Leader Band 5
NHS AfC: Band 5
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 values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
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 Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust 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 is more.
- 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.
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Job overview
Starting May 2025
Site: Lincoln / Boston
1 x 37.5 hour posts
We have an exciting opportunity for a Cancer Team Leader to join our driven and industrious team in the Cancer Centre.
This post will work with the Cancer Centre Management and Coordinator teams to provide close and sustained monitoring and oversight of tumour site performance against the national standards. The post holders will hold and develop an expert level of understanding of CWT guidance and tumour site knowledge in their areas of responsibility, ensuring that the pathway support provided to the individual CBU’s is consistent and reliable.
They will provide direct line management to a dynamic team of staff, providing training, support and monitoring performance. This role will contribute towards an environment and culture that supports and encourages personal and professional development whilst supporting the improvement in performance against national, regional and local standards.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will possess a sound working knowledge of cancer pathways and cancer waiting times within an acute Trust setting, demonstrate IT skills, and exhibit personal drive and the ability to encourage others.
You must also be a confident communicator with the ability to liaise accurately with a wide range of different professional groups (both clinical and non-clinical) and demonstrate awareness and a knowledge of organisational systems and practice.
Among your skills will be the ability to work in a fast moving, challenging environment, being prepared and able to make decisions using own judgement and initiative and have experience of implementing change to improve service delivery.
The successful candidate will also have the following skills:-
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to multi-task
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. travel across county/sites
Working for our organisation
Pilgrim Hospital is situated 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.
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.
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 Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description, and if you like what you see, then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 4 GCSEs Grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Certificate of Management qualification
- ECDL or equivalent
- AMSPAR
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Management of PAS and national standards
- Experience of managing change
- Knowledge within the cancer speciality.
Desirable criteria
- Experience and evidence of recruitment, delegation, negotiation, staff management, appraisal, communication and managing change
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate personal drive and the ability to encourage others.
- To be confident and to gain respect with staff, clinicians and peers.
- To work effectively in a team.
- To be prepared to make decisions using own judgement and initiative
- To demonstrate awareness and a knowledge of organisational systems and practice.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and health and safety.
- Evidence of implementing change to improve service delivery.
- Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda.
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework: Patient Centred Safety Compassion Respect Excellence
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a multi-disciplinary professional setting
- Experience in decision making in an operational setting
- Skills in process redesign
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to multi-task
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. travel across county/sites
Desirable criteria
- A working knowledge of the current health care agenda
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jess Triffitt
- Job title
- Cancer Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 512512
- Additional information
ext.597853
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