Cancer Recovery Programme Director | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Here is an exciting leadership opportunity for you to join us as a Cancer Recovery Programme Director.

As subject matter expert you will oversee the improvement, delivery and transformation of Cancer performance and pathways for the organisation, ensuring that it serves the needs of the local residents, population, and lead sustainable improvement against national cancer standards. The post holder will work in collaboration with system partners especially the community services and primary care with regular updates to the ICB and the regional teams.

The Cancer Recovery Director will lead the development of an integrated improvement plan underpinned by individual cancer pathways encompassing pathway transformation, left shift and cancer quality and outcomes.

You will strive for excellence, compassion, and inclusion, creating a safe and secure space for colleagues to share areas for improvement and develop ideas; they will listen and reflect, helping to empower teams and support mutual learning, and insist on a culture of transparency with colleagues in all activities wherever feasible.

Responsibilities

• Build strong influential relationships with all staff within the MSE Hospitals and beyond, through appropriate engagements with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure that all stakeholders, including Senior Clinicians, are appropriately engaged with implementation arrangements, and regularly briefed on progress against key Programme milestones.
• Ensure high levels of stakeholder engagement at all times, communicating highly contentious information proposing major change in service delivery as part of the Cancer recovery programme.
• Lead on the development of the MSEFT Cancer Recovery Programme, accountable for ensuring that the programme is appropriately structured and resourced to deliver sustainably in the organisation.
• Lead on the development of the MSEFT Cancer programme pipeline of initiatives for improvement, efficiency, and transformation.
• Analyse and interpret information relating to the performance of multi‑stranded projects and highly complex project and Programme data, reporting on targets, and putting strategies into place to manage delivery.

This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Apr 2026.

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