Job summary
Are you experienced at overseeing and coordinating projects across several
partners both within and outside the NHS to achieve agreed outcomes?
This role is a chance for you to play a key role in NCAs response to national, local, and regional policy, ensuring we diagnose cancers earlier, and improve the outcomes for cancer patients by delivering high-quality patient experience outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA) are looking for a full-time permanent Delivery Lead to join our Team.As the Delivery Lead you will support the Cancer Alliances business in driving transformation, by excellent, planning, commissioning, and implementation of cancer service provision. You will work with partners in service design and improvement with a particular focus on:
Overseeing and co-ordinating a wide range of cancer pathways and related complex and challenging projects for the Cancer Alliance, where innovative thinking and new approaches to implementation are required.
Supporting our clinically led Pathway Groups to address; treatment variation via implementation of; speciality audit, Get It Right First Time (GIRFT) findings as well as implementation of Best Practice Timed Pathways. As well as improving faster diagnostic cancer performance across primary, secondary and community services as required.
Ensuring that delivery focus is maintained by the wider project team, a challenge as the delivery team is based in different organisations across the Cancer Alliance footprint.
About us
The base for the role is in Newcastle, though this can be adjusted and covers the North East and North Cumbria, however the whole team is working in a hybrid way at present. The majority of your time will be based at home, with site visits to Trusts etc. as required. The expectation is that there will continue to be flexible working between home and office in future.You will work as part of a dynamic NCA team, including clinical leads for primary and secondary care, in delivering the long-term plan for cancer. You will be leading on specific priorities and support managers and staff across the Cancer Alliance ensuring that projects are planned and managed effectively, and you will take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery. Specifically, your will:
- Demonstratesignificant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment as well as being an effective organizer, influencer, and networker.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles and frameworks of successful project management.
- Demonstrate how their work can help and support clinicians, frontline staff, charities, and volunteers to deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the key strategic issues for Cancer.
Applications close at midnight on 9th August 2024
Interviews will be held virtually on 5th September 2024
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are
accessible to all our communities. It has a wide range of functions including
promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health
and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities.
With
a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across health and care
we look after 3.1 million people across the North East and North Cumbria. As
well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local
health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These
teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of
local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers.
The
ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS
foundation trusts in the region to deliver our shared priorities.
The
ICB also hosts the Northern Cancer Alliance, with whom this job will be based. The
Northern Cancer Alliance is coterminous with the ICB represents an integration
of all stakeholders in cancer services. The Northern Cancer Alliance consists
of statutory and non-statutory bodies but is not a statutory organisation in
its own right.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance acts as the decision-making body for the planning and
delivery of the Cancer Strategy across the North East and North Cumbria.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance adopts a whole-population, whole-pathway approach to
addressing the ambitions of the Long-Term Plan for Cancer. Working across its
geographical footprint to transform services and care, reducing variation in
the availability of good care and the outcomes of treatment while aiming to
deliver continuous improvement in patient experience, and reductions in
inequality of access.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance recognises the value of meaningful public involvement
and acknowledges the interdependency between patient safety, clinical
effectiveness and the patient experience within cancer care and treatment
services. The Alliance is fully
committed to the involvement of the public in all aspects of its work and
embedding a culture where involvement is part of usual business.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance delivers the Cancer Strategy for the North East and
North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) through partnerships within its
geographical footprint.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are
accessible to all our communities. It has a wide range of functions including
promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health
and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities.
With
a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across health and care
we look after 3.1 million people across the North East and North Cumbria. As
well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local
health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These
teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of
local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers.
The
ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS
foundation trusts in the region to deliver our shared priorities.
The
ICB also hosts the Northern Cancer Alliance, with whom this job will be based. The
Northern Cancer Alliance is coterminous with the ICB represents an integration
of all stakeholders in cancer services. The Northern Cancer Alliance consists
of statutory and non-statutory bodies but is not a statutory organisation in
its own right.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance acts as the decision-making body for the planning and
delivery of the Cancer Strategy across the North East and North Cumbria.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance adopts a whole-population, whole-pathway approach to
addressing the ambitions of the Long-Term Plan for Cancer. Working across its
geographical footprint to transform services and care, reducing variation in
the availability of good care and the outcomes of treatment while aiming to
deliver continuous improvement in patient experience, and reductions in
inequality of access.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance recognises the value of meaningful public involvement
and acknowledges the interdependency between patient safety, clinical
effectiveness and the patient experience within cancer care and treatment
services. The Alliance is fully
committed to the involvement of the public in all aspects of its work and
embedding a culture where involvement is part of usual business.
The
Northern Cancer Alliance delivers the Cancer Strategy for the North East and
North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) through partnerships within its
geographical footprint.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline
- Experience of managing a team.
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and
- challenging environments.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g., monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Understanding of the public sector.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Analytical and judgemental skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
Communication and relationship skills
Essential
- Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
Planning and organisational skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline
- Experience of managing a team.
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and
- challenging environments.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g., monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Understanding of the public sector.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Analytical and judgemental skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
Communication and relationship skills
Essential
- Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
Planning and organisational skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
