Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology
- Grade
- AFC Band 8B
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Funded post)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-SB-EMF18089
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey County Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £64,337 - £74,415 per annum including High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

SACT Programme Manager
AFC Band 8B
Job overview
SACT (Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy) Programme Manager
Fixed term post of 12 months
This exciting opportunity to work in a very busy Cancer Centre at the Royal Surrey.
Here at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, we aim to provide first class, high quality care for all of our patients in a friendly and professional setting. Our services have received national recognition and praise and our patients benefit from the latest and most innovative treatments available, delivered by a team of committed and highly skilled staff.
The Oncology division puts patients at the heart of everything we strive to deliver and achieve. The Oncology division is about to embark in an exciting £6+ million expansion and refurbishment project of the outpatient areas to improve and modernise the overall patient experience, increase the centre’s footfall and provide spaces that better serve patient privacy and dignity.
Main duties of the job
This fixed term contract of 12 months is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to work with the organisations within the Surrey cancer alliance to improve patient pathways for SACT.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be working as part of the Surrey Heartlands Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) SACT clinical transformation programme. The post holder will be responsible for leading quality improvements, delivery initiatives and service redesign across the e Surrey Heartlands TPC SACT provider units.
The post holder will be a highly experienced specialist within the field of SACT delivery and patient pathway delivery. The role requires system leadership, stakeholder engagement, attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
The four Surrey Heartlands providers of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust lead Surrey Heartlands Trust Provider Collaborative, driving collaborative initiatives.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in cancer field, with expert knowledge in SACT delivery
- Health Professions Council (HPC) or RCT Registration
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Project Management qualification or equivalent training
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of SACT delivery
- Proven track record of significant successful operational management experience within an acute Trust in the NHS, or equivalent
- Proven track record managing NHS teams and services at a senior level
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Etherington
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
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