Cancer centre named one of UK's top places to work in healthcare

Posted 5th September 2014

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, the specialist cancer centre for Merseyside and Cheshire, has been named one of the best places in the country to work in healthcare in the 2014 annual analysis by the Health Service Journal (HSJ).

The Top 100 Best Places to Work in healthcare list was compiled after looking at data on all the different NHS organisations and assessing staff satisfaction with their roles, the working environment, corporate culture and communications, employee engagement, leadership and planning, and relationships between staff and their supervisors.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – which specialises in leading cancer care and research – came out as one of the best-performing trusts nationally, with its focus on staff health and wellbeing and enabling staff to maintain a good work-life balance highlighted in particular. Recent initiatives have included a fruit and vegetable stall every Friday. There is also an outdoor gym and a running group that meets after work.

The Trust employs 919 staff. In addition to its main site in Wirral, it also runs Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool – a radiotherapy unit in Aintree – and provides chemotherapy and outpatient cancer services across Merseyside and Cheshire.

Andrew Cannell, Chief Executive of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, said: “I am thrilled that The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has been named as one of the best places in the UK to work in healthcare.

“Our staff are exceptional people who are not only leading experts in their fields but also compassionate and totally committed to doing their best for patients. We value what they do so it’s important that we provide the right working environment, training and resources. Inevitably, we sometimes have to make difficult decisions but it’s important that The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is a great place to work.”

The Top 100 Best Places to Work in healthcare are published in the Health Service Journal issue of 5th September and also available online at http://m.hsj.co.uk/5074491.article