Job summary
As part of hosting
arrangements, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care
Board (BOB ICB) is seeking to appoint a Managing Director for the Thames Valley
Cancer Alliance (TVCA), to lead a multidisciplinary team in whole system planning and delivery of cancer care
across the Thames Valley footprint.
*This advert
may close before the end date*
Main duties of the job
The postholder will lead on the strategic plans for cancer to sustainably meet the ambitions of the long-term plan for cancer, working closely with providers and other system partners to support the effective delivery of cancer pathways. Key functions will include planning and program delivery to ensure delivery of national priorities, as well as providing oversight and leadership on the implementation and delivery of specified national programmes and pilots such as e.g. Targeted Lung Health Checks.
About us
In
the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers
the geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authority
boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and
Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While
overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we
have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our
constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3
acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance
trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of
public money each year.
We
value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for
all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the
communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership
and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and
minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from
people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all
under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have responsibility for the strategic and
operational development of the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance (TVCA) . Plans to
achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium
term objectives.
Key aspects of this role
will be to:-
Ensure the strategy is formulated, understood by all stakeholders and
is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
Ensure the development and management of plans, within the
Alliance.
Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the
implementation of the strategy plans in the new organisations.
Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with
ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress
of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
Manage the budgetary implications of activity.
Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
Manage and actively promote the relationships with key
stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have responsibility for the strategic and
operational development of the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance (TVCA) . Plans to
achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium
term objectives.
Key aspects of this role
will be to:-
Ensure the strategy is formulated, understood by all stakeholders and
is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
Ensure the development and management of plans, within the
Alliance.
Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the
implementation of the strategy plans in the new organisations.
Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with
ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress
of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
Manage the budgetary implications of activity.
Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
Manage and actively promote the relationships with key
stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
Desirable
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Education sector knowledge.
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
Desirable
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly 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.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
Desirable
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Education sector knowledge.
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
Desirable
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly 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.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
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.
