Clinical and Care Professional Cancer Place Lead - Leyland, United Kingdom - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

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Leyland, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Clinical and Care Professional Cancer Lead for the South Cumbria Place

1⁄2 day / 1 session per week

Two Year Fixed Term

The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within its geography, improving population health, outcomes and experience for its residents across the four places.

We are seeking a Cancer Lead for the South Cumbria place who will provide leadership to our work on cancer pathways, ensuring we meet the needs of our residents and support the ICB's strategic direction.

You will use data to identify key areas of focus for South Cumbria, participate in developing programmes of education for local clinicians and care professionals, increase awareness of new or evolving clinical guidance, and support the design and implementation of new ways of working across all partners, including the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector.

You will also work with the Cancer Lead for the ICB and be part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance, offering the opportunity to share and learn innovative and successful practice across our four places.

The South Cumbria place is committed to putting our residents at the heart of what we do, listening to people with lived experience, understanding their needs and co-designing solutions that work best for our communities.

A geographically large and diverse place, we support residents across coastal and rural areas, with a mixture of affluent and highly deprived populations.

We are keen to adopt innovative solutions that support our residents to stay well and our workforce to be most effective.

You should be a registered clinician, currently practicing in a partner organisation within the South Cumbria place. You will have exceptional communication skills and the confidence to develop working relationships across professions and sectors.

Passionate about improving care and outcomes, you should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current national health and care aims and policies in relation to cancer care, and a good local knowledge of the South Cumbria place.

For further information please contact:

Dr Lauren Dixon, Clinical and Care Professional Lead - South Cumbria

Jane Scattergood, Director of Health and Care Integration

Mel Zeiderman, Managing Director Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance

This role will provide leadership for the clinical and care professional network for the Cancer programmes and pathways within the South Cumbria Place Based Partnership (PBP) and provide any required advice and guidance on Cancer pathways and treatments to other Clinical & Care Professional PBP Leads within the PBP.

The Clinical and Care Professional Cancer PBP Lead will participate in developing programmes of education to improve referral practice, increase awareness of new or evolving clinical guidance, and share best practice in relation to cancer pathways (such as the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)) within the PBP.

They will work with the Clinical and Care Professional Cancer ICB Lead to ensure developments meet the needs of the Place and support the ICB strategic direction.

As the focus of the role is cancer services and care, it will involve representing the South Cumbria PBP at relevant Place based forums, identifying issues of concern, sharing improvements, and ensuring connectivity to existing place-based work programmes.

Risk Management

You are required to contribute to the control of risk and use the incident reporting system to alert the ICB of incidents or near misses that may compromise the quality of services.

Equality & Diversity

The ICB is committed to equality and diversity and works hard to make sure all staff and service users have access to an environment that is open and a free from discrimination.

As an ICB we value the diversity of our staff and service users, and therefore recognise and appreciate that everyone associated with the ICB is different and so should be treated in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences.

Work across the place to provide leadership in relation to cancer pathways, clinical guidelines, operational standards, and key outcome measures described in the ICB strategy, Primary Care Directed Enhanced Service (DES), NHS Long Term Plan and other key policy documents.
Use data to identify areas of focus for the place, using recognised sources such cancerstats, Model NHS, cancer wait times, PHE Fingertips
Work alongside Primary Care Networks to direct activities in relation to performance, targeting health inequalities in access and outcomes that are experienced in the South Cumbria PBP, and support the implementation of key deliverables.
Support innovations and new technologies, engaging PCNs to develop and implement pilots at place level, and sharing learning across the place and wider system.
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