Job summary
We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, dynamic, and experienced Manager to work with us to improve the care and experience of Children with suspected and diagnosed cancer in Cheshire and Merseyside. Importantly, this individual will help to ensure that cancer care of all patients within the Trust is of a high standard, equitable and consistent and that national targets are met.
The role is a senior leadership position requiring project and change management and service improvement skills as well as operational experience. The post includes close working and collaboration with both internal and external partners such as clinical and operational teams, commissioners, patients, and carers to deliver improvements and ensure optimal operational management of services.
The post holder will act in an autonomous capacity and be required to consistently operate with political awareness and personal influence, representing Children's Cancer Services and the Trust at various internal and external forums, including the North West Children's Cancer Operational Delivery Network (NWCCODN) and the Cheshire and Merseyside Clinical Quality Group (CQG).
Main duties of the job
Detailed duties can be found within the Job Description for this role.
Transformation and Project Management
- Deliver transformation programmes and projects in partnership with local, regional, and national stakeholders and partners.
- Engage all stakeholders to ensure delivery of the approved Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance (CMCA)/Alder Hey Children's Project Initiation Document and all objectives within, including regional work across Cheshire and Merseyside
- Actively engage and collaborate with partner Trusts to support high quality delivery of Children's Cancer Services across Cheshire & Merseyside, developing and leading on delivery of projects to ensure improvements are delivered and benefits realised.
Cancer Services Management
- To provide day-to-day management of services, including Cancer KPIs, liaising effectively with clinical and operational leaders.
- Develop clear understanding of key performance indicators and activity metrics relevant to the cancer service within Alder Hey but also at the shared care units
- Responsible for proposing and implementing local cancer policies and standard operating procedures aligned to national guidance and pathways.
- Attend and present at Trust-level performance meetings.
- Work with the CMCA project manager and Head of Performance on transformation projects relating to performance
About us
As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Staff Management
- Ensure managed staff maintain personal compliance with all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures
- Ensure staff are recruited in line with Trust Policies and Procedures
- Manage the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Coordinators and Quality Managers within the Cancer Services.
Risk and Governance
- To work with trust Cancer leads to develop robust Governance arrangements, ensuring that systems and processes are established and followed.
- To maintain a culture which supports the delivery of the Quality and Safety Agenda, using evidence-based practice and research to support change.
- Work with cancer leads to implement the Trusts risk management strategy across cancer services, identifying and acting upon high risks within service areas.
- Ensure learning is shared with the wider team and promote team learning wherever possible.
- Lead on informal and formal investigations where appropriate, in line with Trust policies and procedures; including the completion of risk assessments.
- Lead on Freedom of Information requests relating to cancer services; in accordance with the legislation.
- To take a proactive approach to responding to and in maintaining compliance with statutory obligations, NICE guidance, NHS standards and Care Quality Commission and any consequent or subsequent standards or bodies.
- To work with senior manager, clinicians, and executives to investigate complaints and ensuring that opportunities to learn from incidents are maximised and implemented, including complaint resolution, risk reporting systems and user feedback.
- To work in conjunction with external partners in line with appropriate governance arrangements.
Financial Management
- To ensure that service improvement projects are delivered within financial budgets and contingencies, monitoring revenue and capital variance from start to finish.
- To ensure robust systems of governance (clinical, financial, staff, audit and information) and risk management are in place.
- Preparation of Business Case documents incorporating service change, revenue or capital requirements as appropriate and according to the NHS Capital Investment Manual guideline.
- Manage any budgets linked to programmes you are leading on effectively and in line with the Trusts financial governance framework.
- To ensure that your assigned programmes deliver their objectives through strong and effective collaboration with colleagues across all sites and disciplines within the Trust
- Lead the development of multi-faceted business cases in relation to their areas of responsibility.
Corporate
- To work as part of the Trust senior management team to develop and implement operational plans and to contribute and participate in all corporate decision making.
- To work with Governors (if required) and the membership of the Trust to deliver agreed initiatives and implement agreed plans.
- To always act as an ambassador for the Trust and to promote the Trusts philosophy and objectives whenever appropriate while participating in the promotion of efficient and effective public relations between the Trust and all users of its services and those in the wider health economy.
- Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion wherever possible and specifically with the robust use of Equality Impact Assessments for all changes
- Contributing to the establishment of Trust-wide standards to maintain, monitor and improve the quality of care and the efficient use of resources.
- To work to develop constructive relationships with Senior Managers from within the Trust and with all external partners.
On-Call
- Participate in the Senior Manager On-Call (SMOC) rota for the trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
Staff Management
- Ensure managed staff maintain personal compliance with all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures
- Ensure staff are recruited in line with Trust Policies and Procedures
- Manage the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Coordinators and Quality Managers within the Cancer Services.
Risk and Governance
- To work with trust Cancer leads to develop robust Governance arrangements, ensuring that systems and processes are established and followed.
- To maintain a culture which supports the delivery of the Quality and Safety Agenda, using evidence-based practice and research to support change.
- Work with cancer leads to implement the Trusts risk management strategy across cancer services, identifying and acting upon high risks within service areas.
- Ensure learning is shared with the wider team and promote team learning wherever possible.
- Lead on informal and formal investigations where appropriate, in line with Trust policies and procedures; including the completion of risk assessments.
- Lead on Freedom of Information requests relating to cancer services; in accordance with the legislation.
- To take a proactive approach to responding to and in maintaining compliance with statutory obligations, NICE guidance, NHS standards and Care Quality Commission and any consequent or subsequent standards or bodies.
- To work with senior manager, clinicians, and executives to investigate complaints and ensuring that opportunities to learn from incidents are maximised and implemented, including complaint resolution, risk reporting systems and user feedback.
- To work in conjunction with external partners in line with appropriate governance arrangements.
Financial Management
- To ensure that service improvement projects are delivered within financial budgets and contingencies, monitoring revenue and capital variance from start to finish.
- To ensure robust systems of governance (clinical, financial, staff, audit and information) and risk management are in place.
- Preparation of Business Case documents incorporating service change, revenue or capital requirements as appropriate and according to the NHS Capital Investment Manual guideline.
- Manage any budgets linked to programmes you are leading on effectively and in line with the Trusts financial governance framework.
- To ensure that your assigned programmes deliver their objectives through strong and effective collaboration with colleagues across all sites and disciplines within the Trust
- Lead the development of multi-faceted business cases in relation to their areas of responsibility.
Corporate
- To work as part of the Trust senior management team to develop and implement operational plans and to contribute and participate in all corporate decision making.
- To work with Governors (if required) and the membership of the Trust to deliver agreed initiatives and implement agreed plans.
- To always act as an ambassador for the Trust and to promote the Trusts philosophy and objectives whenever appropriate while participating in the promotion of efficient and effective public relations between the Trust and all users of its services and those in the wider health economy.
- Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion wherever possible and specifically with the robust use of Equality Impact Assessments for all changes
- Contributing to the establishment of Trust-wide standards to maintain, monitor and improve the quality of care and the efficient use of resources.
- To work to develop constructive relationships with Senior Managers from within the Trust and with all external partners.
On-Call
- Participate in the Senior Manager On-Call (SMOC) rota for the trust
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level, or equivalent
- Relevant project management qualification. PRINCE2 or equivalent experience
- Significant operational management experience in Cancer services within the NHS
- Managing and implementing change at a senior level
- Experience of effective budgetary management and control, including achieving annual targets on a regular basis.
Desirable
- Recent experience of internal/external partnership working at a senior level
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level, or equivalent
- Relevant project management qualification. PRINCE2 or equivalent experience
- Significant operational management experience in Cancer services within the NHS
- Managing and implementing change at a senior level
- Experience of effective budgetary management and control, including achieving annual targets on a regular basis.
Desirable
- Recent experience of internal/external partnership working at a senior level
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
