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Cancer Performance LeadNHS

Colchester, CO4 5JL Permanent £49,387 to £56,515
Posted 1 October 2026 Closing date 15 October 2026
Colchester Rail Station (0.7 miles, direct) Epping Underground Station (36.7 miles, direct) Colchester North Park-and-Ride (1.2 miles, direct)

Job summary

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.

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.

Job description

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

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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