Job summary
Please note, depending on the volume of applications received, this vacancy may close earlier than the date specified.
We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, and experienced Senior Project Manager to work between the West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) and Health Innovation West Midlands (HIWM). The Senior Project Manager will operate across HIWM and the WMCA acting as an innovation champion across the West Midlands, connecting the Alliance to the latest innovations for cancer to support pathway transformation in service provision. The strategic aim is that in partnership, the WMCA and HIWM will support the increased adoption and spread of evidenced innovations across cancer pathways and work with clinical leads to be the initiator of new and impactful cancer pathway changes.
Main duties of the job
The role will work strategically between WMCA and HIWM to:
- Develop strategic partnerships to leverage organisational assets to accelerate innovation in cancer.
- Increase horizon scanning and cancer innovation identification/ mobilisation activities across the Alliance.
- Improve oversight, evaluation and spread of innovations across the Alliance.
- Ensure WMCA and HIWM is best placed to respond to innovation funding opportunities.
- Directly oversee and deliver several innovative cancer projects.
- Support others to undertake innovation activities.
About us
There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that's exactly what you will do.
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.
Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement and better outcomes for patients through effective and coordinated partnership working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
- Present to internal and external stakeholders where information may be highly sensitive and/or highly contentious requiring the use of highly developed negotiation and communication skills.
- Use developed negotiation, persuasion and motivational skills to gain support for the Cancer Alliance programmes across a breadth of stakeholders, including commissioners, providers and service users as well as managing interdependencies across the system.
- Represent the WMCA and HIWM at external stakeholder meetings, including deputising for others where appropriate.
- Produce regular and ad hoc reports for internal and external audiences utilising Project Management Office (PMO) processes.
- Provide managerial leadership to WMCA and HIWM colleagues on issues relevant to the successful delivery of their own workstreams.
Analytical and judgment skills
- Support the production of key strategic documents such as strategic outline cases, business cases and grant applications.
- Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale, highly complex projects applying a standard methodology consistent across the WMCA transformation programme.
- Overall responsibility for delivering the projects to agreed timescales and within budget.
- Monitor progress of the projects against agreed project plans and makes adjustments to the plans if necessary e.g. if a milestone date has not been met.
- Co-ordinate project teams to deliver agreed quality standards.
- Analysis and interpretation of complex information, where there could be conflicting expert opinion, and the ability to translate strategic information into operational deliverables.
- Interpretation of national policies, guidance and emerging policy development and development of new local policies and plans where required.
- Demonstrate effective and transparent decision making, basing decisions on full option appraisals.
- Clearly articulate relative benefits and dis-benefits of options and support recommendations with a clear and concise rationale.
Operational
To oversee team members to deliver requirements listed above and engage and liaise with key stakeholders, in particular:
- To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
- To manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects
- To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment
- Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend.
- To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables to NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process.
- To develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the programme.
Planning and organisational skills
- Develop detailed project plans for designated workstreams to ensure delivery of projects to agreed budget, programme, PMO requirements, scope and quality standards.
- Deploys skills and resources flexibly to support different workstreams within the innovation programme.
- Liaises with stakeholders across the West Midlands systems to develop agreed local and regional strategies to deliver cancer service innovation.
- Lead, plan and organise complex projects, ensuring that individual project deadlines are met with the agreed deliverables and within agreed budgets.
- Manage and monitor a number of competing deadlines and ensuring delivery of the projects, instigating corrective action where possible.
Physical skills
Regular use of IT equipment including advanced use of all Microsoft Office applications.
Responsibility for Patient and Client Care
Act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of the MWCA and HIWM.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development
- Use comprehensive knowledge and understanding of clinical pathways and processes, work with clinicians and health care professionals to make best use of new technologies and deliver sustainable business change that improves the service to the patient.
- Implements project and programme management methodology, ensuring that all workstreams are managed with clear accountabilities within a consistent framework, including project initiation documents, project plans, key performance indicators, interdependencies and risk registers.
- Provide expert project management advice and support to other staff within the WMCA and HIWM.
- Ensures that all nationally mandated cancer transformation goals are clearly aligned to projects with clear accountability for delivery.
- Maintain knowledge of external policies, advice and guidance to determine relevance to the WMCA and HIWM.
Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources
- Responsible for effective management of project budgets.
- Ensures that systems are in place to report on how project allocations have been invested.
- Develop business cases for new projects using best practice recognised specialist approaches, detailed cost benefit analysis methodology and investment appraisal.
Responsibility for Human Resources
- Provides line management support for the team when required. This will include recruitment, induction, development and appraisal, ensuring adherence with all key HR policies.
- Create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensures we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
- Ensure effective resource management for relevant project activities and negotiate with service managers to secure necessary time commitment from management, clinical and administrative staff.
- Support the relationship with the staff from key delivery partners/host organisations by establishing effective and robust processes for partnership working, governance and performance.
Responsibility for Information Resources
- Required to access information using multiple software systems in order to analyse information and provide reports to various stakeholders.
- Updates the Senior Programme Team on project status, identifying risks, achievements, milestones and interdependencies.
Responsibility for Research and Development
Undertakes audits of own work areas as required including the assurance of returns relating to programme governance from local delivery systems, clinical work stream leads and project steering groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
- Present to internal and external stakeholders where information may be highly sensitive and/or highly contentious requiring the use of highly developed negotiation and communication skills.
- Use developed negotiation, persuasion and motivational skills to gain support for the Cancer Alliance programmes across a breadth of stakeholders, including commissioners, providers and service users as well as managing interdependencies across the system.
- Represent the WMCA and HIWM at external stakeholder meetings, including deputising for others where appropriate.
- Produce regular and ad hoc reports for internal and external audiences utilising Project Management Office (PMO) processes.
- Provide managerial leadership to WMCA and HIWM colleagues on issues relevant to the successful delivery of their own workstreams.
Analytical and judgment skills
- Support the production of key strategic documents such as strategic outline cases, business cases and grant applications.
- Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale, highly complex projects applying a standard methodology consistent across the WMCA transformation programme.
- Overall responsibility for delivering the projects to agreed timescales and within budget.
- Monitor progress of the projects against agreed project plans and makes adjustments to the plans if necessary e.g. if a milestone date has not been met.
- Co-ordinate project teams to deliver agreed quality standards.
- Analysis and interpretation of complex information, where there could be conflicting expert opinion, and the ability to translate strategic information into operational deliverables.
- Interpretation of national policies, guidance and emerging policy development and development of new local policies and plans where required.
- Demonstrate effective and transparent decision making, basing decisions on full option appraisals.
- Clearly articulate relative benefits and dis-benefits of options and support recommendations with a clear and concise rationale.
Operational
To oversee team members to deliver requirements listed above and engage and liaise with key stakeholders, in particular:
- To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
- To manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects
- To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment
- Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend.
- To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables to NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process.
- To develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the programme.
Planning and organisational skills
- Develop detailed project plans for designated workstreams to ensure delivery of projects to agreed budget, programme, PMO requirements, scope and quality standards.
- Deploys skills and resources flexibly to support different workstreams within the innovation programme.
- Liaises with stakeholders across the West Midlands systems to develop agreed local and regional strategies to deliver cancer service innovation.
- Lead, plan and organise complex projects, ensuring that individual project deadlines are met with the agreed deliverables and within agreed budgets.
- Manage and monitor a number of competing deadlines and ensuring delivery of the projects, instigating corrective action where possible.
Physical skills
Regular use of IT equipment including advanced use of all Microsoft Office applications.
Responsibility for Patient and Client Care
Act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of the MWCA and HIWM.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development
- Use comprehensive knowledge and understanding of clinical pathways and processes, work with clinicians and health care professionals to make best use of new technologies and deliver sustainable business change that improves the service to the patient.
- Implements project and programme management methodology, ensuring that all workstreams are managed with clear accountabilities within a consistent framework, including project initiation documents, project plans, key performance indicators, interdependencies and risk registers.
- Provide expert project management advice and support to other staff within the WMCA and HIWM.
- Ensures that all nationally mandated cancer transformation goals are clearly aligned to projects with clear accountability for delivery.
- Maintain knowledge of external policies, advice and guidance to determine relevance to the WMCA and HIWM.
Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources
- Responsible for effective management of project budgets.
- Ensures that systems are in place to report on how project allocations have been invested.
- Develop business cases for new projects using best practice recognised specialist approaches, detailed cost benefit analysis methodology and investment appraisal.
Responsibility for Human Resources
- Provides line management support for the team when required. This will include recruitment, induction, development and appraisal, ensuring adherence with all key HR policies.
- Create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensures we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
- Ensure effective resource management for relevant project activities and negotiate with service managers to secure necessary time commitment from management, clinical and administrative staff.
- Support the relationship with the staff from key delivery partners/host organisations by establishing effective and robust processes for partnership working, governance and performance.
Responsibility for Information Resources
- Required to access information using multiple software systems in order to analyse information and provide reports to various stakeholders.
- Updates the Senior Programme Team on project status, identifying risks, achievements, milestones and interdependencies.
Responsibility for Research and Development
Undertakes audits of own work areas as required including the assurance of returns relating to programme governance from local delivery systems, clinical work stream leads and project steering groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oMaster's Level Qualification or equivalent management experience.
- oProject management qualification (e.g. Prince 2) or equivalent experience or equivalent project/quality improvement experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of the latest national cancer policy agenda and the opportunities for improvement in patient care presented by it.
Skills
Essential
- oExtensive experience of managing improvements and projects in the NHS environment engaging clinical staff, patients and other key stakeholders in collaborative projects.
- oExperience of delivering innovation related activities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oMaster's Level Qualification or equivalent management experience.
- oProject management qualification (e.g. Prince 2) or equivalent experience or equivalent project/quality improvement experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of the latest national cancer policy agenda and the opportunities for improvement in patient care presented by it.
Skills
Essential
- oExtensive experience of managing improvements and projects in the NHS environment engaging clinical staff, patients and other key stakeholders in collaborative projects.
- oExperience of delivering innovation related activities.
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
