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.

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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Details

Date posted

01 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR894-26

Job locations

Colchester Hospital

Colchester

CO4 5JL

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

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

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• oFinancial procedures including budgetary management
• oBusiness planning /annual planning
• oUnderstanding of the NHS and current agenda
• oDemonstrable knowledge of service improvements and project management
• oRisk management and governance

Desirable

• NHS IT systems

Experience

Essential

• oProven experience of working in a management/leadership role
• oExperience of managing /leading a team
• oExperience of facilitating change in practice to improve services
• oResponsibility for a budget

Qualifications

Essential

• oRelevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level
• oManagement /leadership qualification or equivalent knowledge at post graduate level
• oEvidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• oProject Management Qualification

Person Specification Knowledge Essential oFinancial procedures including budgetary management oBusiness planning /annual planning oUnderstanding of the NHS and current agenda oDemonstrable knowledge of service improvements and project management oRisk management and governance Desirable NHS IT systems Experience Essential oProven experience of working in a management/leadership role oExperience of managing /leading a team oExperience of facilitating change in practice to improve services oResponsibility for a budget Qualifications Essential oRelevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level oManagement /leadership qualification or equivalent knowledge at post graduate level oEvidence of continued professional development Desirable oProject Management Qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Colchester

CO4 5JL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Colchester

CO4 5JL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)