Clinical Lead for Lung Cancer

Job overview

The Clinical Lead role is ideally a GP who can work will be responsible for overall safety of patients involved in the programme including processes for verifying the procedures for selection, scanning and acting on findings as well as communicating with participants. The post will work closely with the Programme Director and the Lung Screening steering  group to deliver the Lung Cancer Screening programme. The Screening Steering group is  responsible for ensuring the delivery of the programme

Main duties of the job

Role and Specific Duties  This role is specific to the Lung Cancer Screening Programme  To direct the strategic development of the LCSP for the targeted population of  Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley  To work with all the programme stakeholders and support functions to ensure the  delivery of this screening programme  To provide professional direction and leadership for the programme  To ensure all data is available for inclusion in a national evaluation with the purposes  of comparing the programme and the overall success and impact. Data submission  will be according to a national minimum dataset an submission is mandatory  To report to NHS England through the K&M Cancer Alliance

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Role / Responsibilities The Clinical Lead post is a 2 PA /sessions per week responsible for:  Overall clinical oversight and responsibility of the local programme as directed by the Trust and the K&M Cancer Alliance  To work closely with primary care colleagues, programme stakeholders and the key clinicians in the programme including the Responsible Assessor, Responsible Radiologist, Responsible Clinician and the Programme Manager.  To ensure systems and processes are in place between GP practices and  Trust for the transfer of data for eligible patients from primary care to the Trust; a data sharing agreement will be needed for all practices as part of the LCSP across DGS  To provide independent scrutiny of, and advice in relation to: o Governance and commissioning arrangements o Service specifications and KPI’s