Job overview
The post holder will report directly to the Lead Cancer Nurse but work in close collaboration with the Trust Cancer Clinical Director, Director of Clinical services, Deputy Director of Elective Care, and Cancer Manager, contributing to the development and improvement of trust-wide cancer services.
The post holder will act as a resource and lead specific work in the delivery of a high complex agenda which drives efficiency and quality initiatives for cancer patients across Divisions. They will promote quality, innovation, efficiency, productivity, and performance that improves quality of care and patient outcomes.
The post holder will work in partnership internally and with external stakeholders utilising experience to work at a senior level to achieve the OUHFT’s vision of being world class and achieving compassionate excellence.
Main duties of the job
1. Support Lead Cancer Nurse to support and manage the Cancer Specialist Nursing teams.
2. Deputise in the absence of the Lead Cancer Nurse
3. To be visible, accessible, and approachable to ensure open and honest communication channels are maintained, and effective assessments of care delivery can be undertaken.
4. To provide clear, consistent, and expert professional leadership to cancer nursing teams.
5. Work within the cancer management team and contribute to the strategic direction cancer services to align with the Trust’s values and behaviours responding to local and national cancer policy agenda as require, and provide expert advice into local and Trust wide service developments.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit