# Cancer Performance Improvement Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
- **Town:** Shrewsbury
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (secondments considered for internal applicants)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-24T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10T12:01:12.982Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Shropshire/Shrewsbury/The_Shrewsbury_Telford_Hospital_NHS_Trust/Corporate/Corporate-v8127820
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8127820?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sath.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Cancer Services are looking to appoint a Cancer Improvement Performance Manager on a fixed term basis, who will oversee the performance of the trust’s cancer pathways, and work to improve waiting times to meet targets and ensure the timely diagnosis and treatment of patients.

The post holder will constantly analyse and understand cancer performance and delays, effectively communicating and reporting to raise risks and trends and bring pathways back into line. Furthermore, they will manage staff in the team to ensure high-quality tracking and data recording.

This role is suited for an analytical and proactive individual who can draw out insights from extensive complex information, act on those insights to improve performance, and direct work to maintain the high standards of the department and ensure patients are effectively tracked and issues dealt with.

### Main duties of the job

- Communicate and report issues, trends, and changes to senior staff in the department and the wider trust, conveying complex information in an understandable way.
- Chair PTL meetings and present in Assurance and governance meetings, effectively articulating the state of cancer performance and encouraging improvement.
- Have a specialist understanding of cancer pathways, data, and tracking that is always kept up to date. Apply this understanding in all work and proactively seek to understand national updates and lead on disseminating information locally.
- Effectively use, create, and maintain systems and processes, and manage staff, to deliver Cancer Services functions including: breach prediction, breach analysis, data validation, cancer tracking, trend analysis, and MDT coordination.
- Encourage a strong patient-centred staff culture, upholding NHS and Trust values.
- Oversee compliance with HR policy, performance management and prioritise work for the tracking team and cancer managers.
- Always be professional and act as a positive ambassador for Cancer Services.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of duties and responsibilities.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or significant equivalent experience

**Desirable**

- Qualification relevant specifically to NHS Cancer Services
- Post graduate diploma or equivalent

### Knowledge, Behaviours and Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working in the NHS
- Knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times
- Knowledge of Somerset Cancer Register
- Experience of managing staff

**Desirable**

- Experience of managing other managers

## Documents

- [job pack (pdf, 665.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10446798)
- [ai use in recruitment (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2345)
- [relocating to shropshire? (pdf, 1.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2313)

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