# Cancer Performance Lead

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Ipswich Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group)
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term/ Secondment opportunities)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07T09:55:46.094Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Cancer_Pathway/Cancer_Pathway-v8348819
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8348819?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cancer Performance Lead to support our team across ESNEFT.

In conjunction with the Head of Elective Performance, you will lead the day to day oversight and management of Trust wide cancer pathway performance, providing a clear and accurate understanding of performance against national cancer waiting time standards, including the 28 day faster diagnosis, 31 day treatment and 62 day referral to treatment standards.

This is a 12 months fixed term post to cover maternity leave.

### Main duties of the job

- Lead the preparation, interpretation and presentation of cancer performance information for relevant Trust performance and governance forums, ensuring that reporting clearly identifies performance, trends, forecast position, risks, underlying causes and required actions.
- Provide visible operational leadership for cancer performance, working collaboratively with specialty operational teams, clinical teams, Cancer Services, diagnostic services and corporate colleagues to identify and address barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment.
- Maintain effective oversight of patients on cancer pathways, with particular focus on patients at risk of delay or exceeding expected pathway milestones, ensuring appropriate actions are identified, progressed and escalated.
- Lead the development and maintenance of effective cancer performance management processes, ensuring that performance information is translated into operational action rather than solely reported.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Financial procedures including budgetary management
- - Business planning /annual planning
- - Understanding of the NHS and current agenda
- - Demonstrable knowledge of service improvements and project management
- - Risk management and governance

**Desirable**

- NHS IT systems

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Proven experience of working in a management/leadership role
- - Experience of managing /leading a team
- - Experience of facilitating change in practice to improve services
- - Responsibility for a budget

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Relevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level
- - Management /leadership qualification or equivalent knowledge at post graduate level
- - Evidence of continued professional development

**Desirable**

- - Project Management Qualification

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 208.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10673960)
- [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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