Lead Cancer Nurse

An experienced, motivated and independently minded clinical manager who is able to act on their own initiative, adopting values led ‘can do’ leadership style within a climate of constant change and uncertainty to support the strategic direction of quality care and compassion of the nursing/AHP service across the organisation.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Nursing, the post holder is expected to function at a senior level within the Cancer Team, proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve complex issues, in accordance with professional standards, agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints.

The post holder will possess leadership skills to deal competently with complex issues in ensuring that professional standards and policy are upheld, implemented and performance managed.

The Lead Cancer Nurse will improve the quality of health care provision for patients with cancer and their families throughout the cancer and palliative care journey by working with patients and staff and play a key role in the integration of cancer care across organisational boundaries.

The post holder will support the Associate Director of Nursing with the translation of national cancer strategy and policy into local delivery plans and will provide an expert nursing perspective in relation to the planning and delivery of cancer services across the cancer pathway.

Work as part of the Corporate Cancer Services Team to deliver relevant aspects of the Cancer Improvement Programme pertaining to Cancer Patient Experience and Cancer CNS/AHP workforce identifying opportunities for service redesign, developing recommendations to improve cancer pathways and ensuring best practice is shared across clinical teams 

Act as Professional Lead to the Cancer CNSs in each specialty leading the Personalised Care portfolio, including national directives to deliver pre-habilitation, Living With and Beyond Cancer initiatives and personalised stratified follow up pathways

Be a visible nursing leader, facilitating excellent standards of cancer nursing care, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery, including remaining calm, controlled and solution focused in times of difficulty

Providing strategic oversight and operational managerial support for the information centres, in conjunction with the information centre manager

Lead on the continued delivery of the highest possible patient reported experience of care for those affected by cancer, as demonstrated in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey through the implementation of local action plans

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anna Crofton Job title: Associate Director of Nursing Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07717355023