Job summary
We are looking for an organised and proactive Cancer Pathway Manager for Oncology to manage and support our administrative team within the Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). You will oversee the smooth running of MDT meetings, the coordination of patient pathways, and provide cover for admin roles when needed, including taking minutes and tracking actions.
The Thoracic Division within Royal Papworth Hospital contains 6 specialities, RSSC, CCLI, PVDU, Oncology, ILD. Divisional teams work hard to ensure new members receive a warm welcome encouraging a positive and supportive culture within the department.
The postholder will provide compassionate and supportive leadership to the oncology MDT team, fostering a positive and inclusive environment that empowers the team to deliver high quality patient care. The Cancer Pathway Manager plays a pivotal role within an essential team, managing and developing processes that ultimately are responsible in keeping patients safe.
If you want to have a real and positive impact in patients care from an in direct position, this is the job for you.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and support the Oncology MDT team, ensuring efficient workflow supporting and inspiring team members to develop in their careers.
Oversee & Lead MDT Coordinators in efficient running of MDT meetings, including accurate minute-taking and follow-up on actions.
Provide cover for admin roles as required to maintain service continuity.
Work closely with clinical teams to support the delivery of high-quality patient care ensuring patients are monitored and moved along their treatment pathways as efficiently as possible supporting the Oncology Service Manager with the Patient tracker lists (PTL) including deputising PTL meetings where required.
Support Oncology Service Manager with projects aligned with the organisation's strategic goals.
Identify and implement improvements to administrative processes including collection and presentation of data as required.
Be a point of contact for Cancer Waiting Times guidance.
Have oversight of clinic and diagnostic capacity to support Oncology Service Manager by escalating concerns raised by MDT co-ordinators, seeking to resolve issues where possible.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Details
- Date posted: 21 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 14 months
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: 175-2627-EPR1928
- Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continued learning and development
- Experience in line management, or supervision or staff, including dealing with recruitment of staff and performance and disciplinary issues
- To be proficient in Microsoft Office programmes including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Experience of producing reports from databases
- Previous experience of using complex medical terminology
- Knowledge of cancer data sets and MDT processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex and sensitive issues
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to problem solve complex departmental challenges
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data from a variety of sources
- Flexible approach to working hours in line with service requirements (including the ability to work out of hours/at weekends if required)
Desirable
- Experience in the management of financial resources
- Knowledge of workforce legislation and practices
- Experience of undertaking project work
- Experience of leading change at a departmental level
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate level Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- HR Qualification e.g. CIPD or equivalent
Additional Criteria
Essential
- As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
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