Opportunity to make a significant impact on cancer care and patient outcomes for a population of 3 million.
Work with a wide range of stakeholders, including clinicians, service users, and academic institutions, fostering a collaborative environment.
Engagement in diverse projects covering the entire cancer pathway, including early diagnosis, personalized care, and reducing health inequalities.
Hybrid working model allows for flexibility between working from home and in the office, promoting work-life balance.
Association with The Christie, one of Europe’s leading cancer centers, enhancing professional reputation and experience.
Involvement in the delivery of national strategies such as NHS England’s Long Term Plan, allowing for alignment with broader healthcare goals.
Fixed-term contract with opportunities for secondment, providing pathways for professional growth and development.
The role of Pathway Manager at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester involves supporting the Greater Manchester (GM) Cancer programme, which aims to enhance cancer care for a population of 3 million. The Pathway Manager will work closely with clinical leads across 12 different Pathway Boards that focus on improving all aspects of the cancer care pathway, from early diagnosis to personalized care and reducing health inequalities. This position includes managing various projects, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and ensuring the successful implementation of GM Cancer’s objectives in alignment with NHS England’s Long Term Plan.
The job is a fixed-term contract until March 2026, with the possibility of secondments, and features a hybrid working model that combines both office and remote work. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in leading initiatives to embed best practices across the healthcare system, ultimately contributing to improved cancer outcomes and experiences for patients throughout Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
Opportunity to make a significant impact on cancer care and patient outcomes for a population of 3 million.
Work with a wide range of stakeholders, including clinicians, service users, and academic institutions, fostering a collaborative environment.
Engagement in diverse projects covering the entire cancer pathway, including early diagnosis, personalized care, and reducing health inequalities.
Hybrid working model allows for flexibility between working from home and in the office, promoting work-life balance.
Association with The Christie, one of Europe’s leading cancer centers, enhancing professional reputation and experience.
Involvement in the delivery of national strategies such as NHS England’s Long Term Plan, allowing for alignment with broader healthcare goals.
Fixed-term contract with opportunities for secondment, providing pathways for professional growth and development.
GM Cancer brings together patients, carers, and other service users as well as NHS organisations and academic institutions with the aim of securing world-class cancer outcomes and experience for our population of 3 million. GM Cancer is the cancer programme of Greater Manchester Integrated Care.
The pathway manager team within GM Cancer supports 12 clinical Pathway Boards. The Pathway Boards deliver Greater Manchester (GM) system-wide improvements to cancer pathways and patient care, with a broad remit covering the whole pathway including early diagnosis, sustainable operational delivery and personalised care, workforce and education, research and reducing health inequalities.
Pathway Boards bring together stakeholders from across GM including clinicians, service users, primary/secondary care representatives, place-based representatives, managers and other organisations/groups to create an engaged, multidisciplinary board which is representative of the whole patient pathway. Each Pathway Board has its own programme of work and the pathway manager works closely with the clinical lead for each pathway to deliver these programmes. The pathway managers’ roles are busy and varied.
GM Cancer is hosted and based at The Christie and staff have a hybrid working pattern (mix of working from home and in the office), with some travel across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
This is a fixed term contract to 31st March 2026 in the first instance, secondments welcomed.
The Pathway Manager will support delivery of GM Cancer objectives and priorities identified within NHS England’s Long Term Plan and the local cancer operational delivery plan.
The post holder will provide comprehensive management, leadership and support for several Pathway Boards including proactively and collaboratively leading/managing projects and progressing the Pathway Boards’ work programmes, to support embedding best practice across organisations and improving delivery of cancer care in line with NHSE priorities.
GM Cancer brings together patients, carers, and other service users as well as NHS organisations and academic institutions with the aim of securing world-class cancer outcomes and experience for our population of 3 million. GM Cancer is the cancer programme of Greater Manchester Integrated Care.
GM Cancer is hosted by The Christie, with office space at The Christie’s Withington site.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Susan Todd Job title: Programme Director Email address: Telephone number:
Claire Goldrick, Pathway
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