Job summary
The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance leads the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan for cancer across our local system. The Cancer Alliance (CA) provides system oversight and co-ordination for cancer services through collaboration with partners with the aims of improving outcomes for patients and improving performance against key operational standards.
Working within Operational Performance, the post holder will provide leadership and high level project management skills to deliver projects aimed at improving Cancer Pathways, and Cancer Waiting Times.
The role will require extensive programme management skills and close working with external partners including hospital providers, locality teams, patients and carers to deliver the programme objectives. This requires a level of political awareness, personal influence and skill.
The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance leads the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer across our local system. The Cancer Alliance (CA) provides system oversight and co-ordination for cancer services through collaboration with partners with the aims of improving outcomes for patients and improving performance against key operational standards.
Main duties of the job
The Project Manager will provide leadership and high level project management skills to enable system wide change to support delivery of CA objectives and priorities identified within NHS England's Long Term Plan and the local cancer delivery plan. The breadth of the CA programme covers the whole pathway including screening and early diagnosis, personalised care and sustainable operational performance.
The Project Manager will be responsible for the development, management and implementation of key projects across organisations in all sectors across Greater Manchester (GM) and East Cheshire. The role will require extensive project management skills and close working with external partners including providers, commissioners, patients and carers to deliver programme objectives in accordance with the aims and ambitions of the CA. This requires a level of political awareness, personal influence and skill.
The post holder will represent the CA in various GM wide forums. The post holder will work with colleagues at all levels including senior clinicians, executives, project managers and teams across Greater Manchester/East Cheshire and act in an autonomous capacity.
About us
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Oversight and co-ordination of the CA transformation projects
Line management of project team members
Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale transformation projects
Setting up and planning of the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function, project teams, project documentation using the CA programme management documentation and recognised project management methodologies
Identifying resources to enable project delivery and assuring delivery on time and to budget
Project reporting compliant with the CA programme governance framework
Identifying and managing the risks associated with each project
Maintaining knowledge of local, regional and national projects that are current and pending
Providing expert project management advice and support to other staff and teams within the CA and partner organisations.
Leadership and expertise
- Act as a genuine and credible manager and leader for projects.
- Act as a subject matter expert for the scope of projects
- Exert influence upon senior clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure that project objectives remain a priority in their own work programmes
- Act as a local source of expertise about projects and all of the resources that are available to support those seeking to improve services
- Remain up to date with developments and disseminate these developments to the appropriate audience
Set-up and organisation
- Lead the setting up of Project Boards, ensuring full representation from all key partners (including patients) and relevant stakeholders
- Manage the administration of Project Board meetings
- Oversee the preparation of agendas, papers and minutes for the Project Board meetings/Pathway Boards and the follow up agreed actions with responsible group members, holding them to account for lack of progress
- Lead the arrangement of an annual stakeholder events:
- an annual engagement event open to the whole of Manchester Cancer and beyond to allow Project Boards to account for its progress against its work programme objectives and to obtain input and feedback from local professionals and the public
- Facilitate full and active patient participation in the work of the Project Boards
- Build relationships across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire, including primary, secondary and community care as well as public & patient engagement
Communication and support
- Be the first point of contact for the Clinical Leads when seeking managerial advice or support
- Act as a conduit between Clinical Lead and the Greater Manchester Cancer core team
- Lead the development of innovative proposals for pathway change and improvement
- Challenge Clinical Leads and the Project Boards if they exhibit a lack of ambition or consider objectives that do not contribute towards those of the GM Cancer plan
- Regularly update Greater Manchester Cancer senior management team with project developments and identify where support or challenge is needed
- Create reports and papers to update the Greater Manchester Cancer Board on project developments and to seek approval for recommended action
Data and information
- Research background data and literature from national and international sources
- Collate data and literature into concise reports and tools and present to the Clinical Lead, making clear recommendations for action
- Analyse cancer data and intelligence to identify trends, key messages and opportunities to improve patient outcomes and experience
- Lead the Project Boards in the collation and presentation of local system-wide audit data
Planning and reporting
- Develop and manage an annual work programme with the Clinical Leads ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads
- Ensure that the work plan reflects, and contributes towards the achievement of, the wider Greater Manchester Cancer plan, goal and objectives of improved clinical care and patient experience
- Lead the definition of outcome measures that can be monitored during the course of the programme
- Track progress against these outcome measures and provide progress reports to GM Cancer
- Develop and maintain a risk register for the Project Board objectives and annual work plan, reporting risks and issues to the Clinical Lead according to a risk assessment framework
- Write an annual report on progress in achieving the years objectives, the challenges faced during the year, and the priorities for the next year
- Actively contribute to any provider service reviews as required
Job description
Job responsibilities
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Oversight and co-ordination of the CA transformation projects
Line management of project team members
Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale transformation projects
Setting up and planning of the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function, project teams, project documentation using the CA programme management documentation and recognised project management methodologies
Identifying resources to enable project delivery and assuring delivery on time and to budget
Project reporting compliant with the CA programme governance framework
Identifying and managing the risks associated with each project
Maintaining knowledge of local, regional and national projects that are current and pending
Providing expert project management advice and support to other staff and teams within the CA and partner organisations.
Leadership and expertise
- Act as a genuine and credible manager and leader for projects.
- Act as a subject matter expert for the scope of projects
- Exert influence upon senior clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure that project objectives remain a priority in their own work programmes
- Act as a local source of expertise about projects and all of the resources that are available to support those seeking to improve services
- Remain up to date with developments and disseminate these developments to the appropriate audience
Set-up and organisation
- Lead the setting up of Project Boards, ensuring full representation from all key partners (including patients) and relevant stakeholders
- Manage the administration of Project Board meetings
- Oversee the preparation of agendas, papers and minutes for the Project Board meetings/Pathway Boards and the follow up agreed actions with responsible group members, holding them to account for lack of progress
- Lead the arrangement of an annual stakeholder events:
- an annual engagement event open to the whole of Manchester Cancer and beyond to allow Project Boards to account for its progress against its work programme objectives and to obtain input and feedback from local professionals and the public
- Facilitate full and active patient participation in the work of the Project Boards
- Build relationships across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire, including primary, secondary and community care as well as public & patient engagement
Communication and support
- Be the first point of contact for the Clinical Leads when seeking managerial advice or support
- Act as a conduit between Clinical Lead and the Greater Manchester Cancer core team
- Lead the development of innovative proposals for pathway change and improvement
- Challenge Clinical Leads and the Project Boards if they exhibit a lack of ambition or consider objectives that do not contribute towards those of the GM Cancer plan
- Regularly update Greater Manchester Cancer senior management team with project developments and identify where support or challenge is needed
- Create reports and papers to update the Greater Manchester Cancer Board on project developments and to seek approval for recommended action
Data and information
- Research background data and literature from national and international sources
- Collate data and literature into concise reports and tools and present to the Clinical Lead, making clear recommendations for action
- Analyse cancer data and intelligence to identify trends, key messages and opportunities to improve patient outcomes and experience
- Lead the Project Boards in the collation and presentation of local system-wide audit data
Planning and reporting
- Develop and manage an annual work programme with the Clinical Leads ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads
- Ensure that the work plan reflects, and contributes towards the achievement of, the wider Greater Manchester Cancer plan, goal and objectives of improved clinical care and patient experience
- Lead the definition of outcome measures that can be monitored during the course of the programme
- Track progress against these outcome measures and provide progress reports to GM Cancer
- Develop and maintain a risk register for the Project Board objectives and annual work plan, reporting risks and issues to the Clinical Lead according to a risk assessment framework
- Write an annual report on progress in achieving the years objectives, the challenges faced during the year, and the priorities for the next year
- Actively contribute to any provider service reviews as required
Person Specification
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Committed to quality in all that they do
- Values diversity and difference and promotes equality of opportunity
- Committed to working to help clinicians deliver better outcomes for patients
- Committed to patient and carer involvement in the development of health services
- Committed to the use of evidence and clinical consensus to bring about change
- Operates with integrity and openness
- Committed to personal development and supporting others to do the same
- Energetic and enthusiastic, capable of generating enthusiasm in others
- Challenges received wisdom and acceptance of the status quo
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to relevant postgraduate degree level or equivalent or significant experience of working at a similar level in the NHS
Desirable
- Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE 2 practitioner or equivalent)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Has experience of leadership without direct authority
- Has worked as part of a senior multidisciplinary team in an NHS environment
- Has worked with senior NHS clinical colleagues to improve services
- Has managed members of staff
- Has lead projects in complex and challenging environments
- Has managed and reported on risks and issues
- Has developed plans for service changes and improvements across multiple organisations
- Has an understanding of cancer services in Greater Manchester
Desirable
- Has operational pathway experience
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Can use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint software to a high standard
- Can produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate
- Can create and deliver presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders
- Can influence others to develop a shared vision
- Can challenge other team members and senior colleagues when necessary
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial information
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial information
- Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete
- Can develop plans for the short and long term for services that extend across multiple organisations and adjust them as required
- Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
- Can manage own workload
- Can make informed decisions in the absence of complete information
- Can work to demanding and changing timescales
Person Specification
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Committed to quality in all that they do
- Values diversity and difference and promotes equality of opportunity
- Committed to working to help clinicians deliver better outcomes for patients
- Committed to patient and carer involvement in the development of health services
- Committed to the use of evidence and clinical consensus to bring about change
- Operates with integrity and openness
- Committed to personal development and supporting others to do the same
- Energetic and enthusiastic, capable of generating enthusiasm in others
- Challenges received wisdom and acceptance of the status quo
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to relevant postgraduate degree level or equivalent or significant experience of working at a similar level in the NHS
Desirable
- Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE 2 practitioner or equivalent)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Has experience of leadership without direct authority
- Has worked as part of a senior multidisciplinary team in an NHS environment
- Has worked with senior NHS clinical colleagues to improve services
- Has managed members of staff
- Has lead projects in complex and challenging environments
- Has managed and reported on risks and issues
- Has developed plans for service changes and improvements across multiple organisations
- Has an understanding of cancer services in Greater Manchester
Desirable
- Has operational pathway experience
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Can use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint software to a high standard
- Can produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate
- Can create and deliver presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders
- Can influence others to develop a shared vision
- Can challenge other team members and senior colleagues when necessary
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial information
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial information
- Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete
- Can develop plans for the short and long term for services that extend across multiple organisations and adjust them as required
- Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
- Can manage own workload
- Can make informed decisions in the absence of complete information
- Can work to demanding and changing timescales
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).
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).
