Macmillan Psychosocial Project Manager | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This new Macmillan service aims to ensure that adults affected cancer experience excellent psychosocial care wherever they are on the cancer pathway. This is an integrated whole system model for identifying and providing psychosocial support across the cancer landscape.

Active service user involvement is fundamental to the service aim to support personalised comprehensive care and support for people affected by cancer in our population through:

Timely & equitable access to appropriate level 1-4 (NICE, 2004) mental health support integrated with cancer care clinical pathways

• Improved coordination, proactive and integrated psycho-social support across primary, community, social and acute settings


• Psychosocial education and support for health care professionals (including collaborative learning and reflection sessions) and ensuring continuous development and improvement of the psychological care approach


• Improved integrated support for people with learning disabilities and pre-existing mental health conditions with cancer


This service has been funded collaboratively by Macmillan and Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance with the support of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.

The post is based at Preston Business Centre, however, the post holder will be expected to travel to sites across Lancashire and Cumbria.

Develop effective working relationships with the following stakeholders:


• Macmillan Psychosocial Pathway Lead



• Mangers who lead on related work streams



• All levels of management within LSC ICB and LSC Cancer Alliance


The post holder will be the Project Manager for the Macmillan Psychosocial Pathway for Lancashire and South Cumbria and will work autonomously, referring to the Pathway Lead and Macmillan Pathway project Lead when required. The post holder will have overall responsibility for the integrity and coherence of the pathway.

There will be three main elements of this role: project management, gathering information/data as the evidence base for the Macmillan Psychosocial Pathway and stakeholder engagement.

The posts will be hosted by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. These posts involve working across the Cancer Alliance, linking in with colleagues across the ICB and integrating cancer care and teaching both in the hospital Trust and the community.

You'll make an impact, be part of a new and exciting project, be challenged to think differently & help innovate to keep cancer care moving forward. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

As a Macmillan professional, you will have access to a wide variety of learning opportunities to support your development. Macmillan's Person-Centred Care Competency Framework (MPCCCF) underpins the training offer, this ensures that professionals are provided with the education, training, tools, learning resources and development opportunities to help them meet these needs and demands of their roles.

Responsible for supporting the Macmillan Pathway project Lead to deliver the objectives of the pathway, working with a range of internal and external stakeholders both across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Maintain all related project documents for the project in line with LSCFT and Macmillan requirements and organisational standards. To help develop digital solutions which work across LTHTR, UHMB and third sector.

Responsible for coordinating the gathering, analysing, and reporting of information and the evidence base for cancer performance activity, pathways, services and patient experiences in Lancashire and South Cumbria and in commissioned providers and across the local authority to inform the development of the models of care.

Develop communications and support engagement plans for the Psychosocial Pathway Project and manage their effective implementation.