Job summary
*Banding is subject to job evaluation*
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to support the Cancer Programme Manager in overseeing, leading a team and co-ordinating the effective programme management and implementation of a high profile, whole system programme and strategy of transforming cancer services.
The postholder will be responsible for delivery of the programme and its outcomes, and direct management of the small team dedicated to managing and delivering that programme of cancer transformation. The postholder will be responsible for taking up any commissioning responsibilities and queries that relate to cancer services, delivery, improvement and performance; reporting to the Cancer Programme Manager.
The programme of transforming Cancer services means working with and involving a wide range of partners across the health and social care economy. Working collaboratively with these system partners, your leadership approach should demonstrate the principles of 'system first', where compassion, inclusion, collaboration and values-based approaches to care is the goal.
The Cancer team takes responsibility for successful and timely delivery of the overarching Cancer strategy and transformation programme, including a number of component sub-projects all linked to cancer.
Main duties of the job
An exciting and dynamic portfolio role, requiring excellent management and leadership skills to deliver a transformational programme of work for patients in the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin (STW) economy.
This requires a high calibre individual who can work autonomously in a stimulating and challenging environment to achieve outcomes efficiently.
The prospective candidate will be working within a newly developed team, working collaboratively and in partnership with a wide stakeholder community including senior clinical and managerial leaders and external support agencies.
This is a 12-month fixed-term post within Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin (STW) ICB, or a secondment opportunity for existing NHS employees, responsible for timely and effective programme management and delivery of all of the component cancer projects, that contribute to delivery of the overarching large scale Cancer strategy and transformation programme.
STW have been awarded funding to deliver this transformational programme of cancer service, and so as part of this programme, you will also work closely with leaders from STW ICB and the West Midlands Cancer Alliance, develop and deliver a whole system approach to plan and deliver a systemised programme that will improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities for cancer services.
About us
NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin is responsible for planning and buying a wide range of health and care services for the whole of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. These include GP and primary care services, hospital care, community healthcare and mental health services. We also have a duty to monitor these services to ensure they provide a high level of care and are value for money.
We are part of Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System. This means we work closely with our partner organisations across the county, such as the two local authorities, the 51 GP practices, the hospitals, and the voluntary and community sector, to plan and deliver joined up health and care services.
Working closely together, in a more joined-up way, means we can have closer links to our patients so we can develop more personalised local services which will improve the lives of our residents and reduce inequalities.
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin currently have an agile working policy, with a combination of working from home and office-based work or meetings. The requirement is for the role to be working a minimum of 40% per week in the office - which is currently at Halesfield 6, TF7 4QQ but will be based in Wellington, Telford as from February 2024. The organisation creates a supportive culture for all staff and encourages staff to access the Health and Wellbeing group which has a programme of activities, events and training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Banding is subject to job evaluation*
Job Purpose
The Deputy Cancer Programme Manager will report directly to the Cancer Programme Manager, and will be responsible for:
- Work closely with and support the Cancer Programme manager to develop, agree and co-ordinate an effective Cancer strategy for promoting excellence and innovation across NHS STW for cancer.
- Be a key leader in a range of programmes of cancer innovation and excellence across NHS STW. Working with and deputising for the Cancer Programme manager to ensure the development, management and delivery of NHS STWs Cancer Strategy that incorporates all aspects of Cancer pathways and includes:
- Prevention
- Screening
- Early Diagnosis
- Acute care
- Living with Cancer
- Promote the development, maintenance, and delivery of a programme of innovation and change that drives service and quality improvement, and performance,
- Support the development of commissioning models for cancer.
- Support the delivery of the NHS STWs Cancer Recovery Plan.
- Lead and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and ensure that NHS STW benefits from relevant innovations in the cancer programme.
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary.
- Provide expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments.
Duties
- Ensure the utilisation of an agreed standard approach to Cancer Programme Management in the delivery of all work programmes and projects.
- Ensure the comprehensive clinical, stakeholder, and service user engagement element of the standard approach to Cancer Programme Management is meaningfully carried out, and products of engagement are used to shape the work being done.
- Ensure that there is sufficient patient and public involvement to co-produce transformation of, or changes to, services with the support of the ICBs Communications and Engagement team, to meet the ICBs legislative responsibility to involve patients and the public.
- Support and line manage the Cancer programme team, working with a matrix style of delivery, helping to drive delivery of agreed plans, and oversee the tracking of progress against plans for each area.
- Work effectively within a matrix style to ensuring appropriate utilisation of the wider enabling resources (e.g. digital, people, capital, finance) is available to the programme.
- Providing progress reports and presenting programme information, explaining complexities, to internal ICB meetings and to system assurance meetings as required
- Present highly complex information on programmes of change in a clear, understandable and audience appropriate manner to senior management and board level groups as required
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Develop strong, external working relationships that enables delivery of the Cancer programme.
- Identify interdependencies between programmes of work and taking steps to manage these, as necessary.
- Forge positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To work in a matrix management style and to foster close working relations with other managers within the NHS.
- Strive to deliver value for money and working with colleagues across the system within to help achieve financial balance.
- Develop business cases and effective strategies for change, ensuring future sustainability of service provision.
- Be able to adopt a full life course approach to pathway and service development, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of service models for all ages.
- Understand population health and health inequalities, and how to design and commission services to ensure inequalities are tackled head on.
- Draft reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Cancer Programme manager/Programme Boards.
- Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project products.
- Analyse, interpret and present highly complex data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making
- Effectively manage a team, ensuring ongoing professional development needs are identified and met, and appraisals and other statutory training is completed in line with ICB policy.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Inputs to strategic cancer plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
Responsibilities
Direct/Indirect patient care
- Contact with patients is incidental.
Policy and Service Development
- Working collaboratively to develop a faculty of local champions and leaders.
- Promote the adoption of innovative strategies and techniques.
- Responsible for the implementation and interpretation of local and national policies, guidelines and service level agreements which may impact.
- Proposes changes to own function and making recommendations system wide.
Financial and physical resources
- Work closely with the Cancer Programme manager to lead the development of commissioning models that ensures value for money and promote excellence.
- Acts in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.
- Constantly strives for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of these budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
- Ensure the value for money of new contracts, monitoring the performance of existing providers and ensuring that provider performance aligns, and complies, with contractual terms and conditions,
- Budget holder for the Cancer Programme Team,
- Be required to budget set along with the Cancer Programme Manager.
Human Resources
- Manages the Cancer Transformation Partners (8a) and be responsible for the Cancer Team.
- Liaises with the commissioning support organisation regarding CSU staff supporting the cancer system.
- To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the Cancer Transformation Programme.
Information Resources
- Partners with the Information and Business Intelligence team to ensure that information management needs are meet in order to enable effective education planning and monitoring of Quality.
Research and Development
- Ensures that relevant groups are able to access best practice and current information from supply markets.
- Undertakes regular research and development in line with national Cancer teams and workstreams.
Notes & Review
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with their manager. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. It will be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Banding is subject to job evaluation*
Job Purpose
The Deputy Cancer Programme Manager will report directly to the Cancer Programme Manager, and will be responsible for:
- Work closely with and support the Cancer Programme manager to develop, agree and co-ordinate an effective Cancer strategy for promoting excellence and innovation across NHS STW for cancer.
- Be a key leader in a range of programmes of cancer innovation and excellence across NHS STW. Working with and deputising for the Cancer Programme manager to ensure the development, management and delivery of NHS STWs Cancer Strategy that incorporates all aspects of Cancer pathways and includes:
- Prevention
- Screening
- Early Diagnosis
- Acute care
- Living with Cancer
- Promote the development, maintenance, and delivery of a programme of innovation and change that drives service and quality improvement, and performance,
- Support the development of commissioning models for cancer.
- Support the delivery of the NHS STWs Cancer Recovery Plan.
- Lead and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and ensure that NHS STW benefits from relevant innovations in the cancer programme.
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary.
- Provide expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments.
Duties
- Ensure the utilisation of an agreed standard approach to Cancer Programme Management in the delivery of all work programmes and projects.
- Ensure the comprehensive clinical, stakeholder, and service user engagement element of the standard approach to Cancer Programme Management is meaningfully carried out, and products of engagement are used to shape the work being done.
- Ensure that there is sufficient patient and public involvement to co-produce transformation of, or changes to, services with the support of the ICBs Communications and Engagement team, to meet the ICBs legislative responsibility to involve patients and the public.
- Support and line manage the Cancer programme team, working with a matrix style of delivery, helping to drive delivery of agreed plans, and oversee the tracking of progress against plans for each area.
- Work effectively within a matrix style to ensuring appropriate utilisation of the wider enabling resources (e.g. digital, people, capital, finance) is available to the programme.
- Providing progress reports and presenting programme information, explaining complexities, to internal ICB meetings and to system assurance meetings as required
- Present highly complex information on programmes of change in a clear, understandable and audience appropriate manner to senior management and board level groups as required
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Develop strong, external working relationships that enables delivery of the Cancer programme.
- Identify interdependencies between programmes of work and taking steps to manage these, as necessary.
- Forge positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To work in a matrix management style and to foster close working relations with other managers within the NHS.
- Strive to deliver value for money and working with colleagues across the system within to help achieve financial balance.
- Develop business cases and effective strategies for change, ensuring future sustainability of service provision.
- Be able to adopt a full life course approach to pathway and service development, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of service models for all ages.
- Understand population health and health inequalities, and how to design and commission services to ensure inequalities are tackled head on.
- Draft reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Cancer Programme manager/Programme Boards.
- Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project products.
- Analyse, interpret and present highly complex data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making
- Effectively manage a team, ensuring ongoing professional development needs are identified and met, and appraisals and other statutory training is completed in line with ICB policy.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Inputs to strategic cancer plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
Responsibilities
Direct/Indirect patient care
- Contact with patients is incidental.
Policy and Service Development
- Working collaboratively to develop a faculty of local champions and leaders.
- Promote the adoption of innovative strategies and techniques.
- Responsible for the implementation and interpretation of local and national policies, guidelines and service level agreements which may impact.
- Proposes changes to own function and making recommendations system wide.
Financial and physical resources
- Work closely with the Cancer Programme manager to lead the development of commissioning models that ensures value for money and promote excellence.
- Acts in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.
- Constantly strives for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of these budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
- Ensure the value for money of new contracts, monitoring the performance of existing providers and ensuring that provider performance aligns, and complies, with contractual terms and conditions,
- Budget holder for the Cancer Programme Team,
- Be required to budget set along with the Cancer Programme Manager.
Human Resources
- Manages the Cancer Transformation Partners (8a) and be responsible for the Cancer Team.
- Liaises with the commissioning support organisation regarding CSU staff supporting the cancer system.
- To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the Cancer Transformation Programme.
Information Resources
- Partners with the Information and Business Intelligence team to ensure that information management needs are meet in order to enable effective education planning and monitoring of Quality.
Research and Development
- Ensures that relevant groups are able to access best practice and current information from supply markets.
- Undertakes regular research and development in line with national Cancer teams and workstreams.
Notes & Review
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with their manager. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. It will be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual basis.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in transformation/ change management/ service improvement.
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
- Must have an understanding of the local system challenges.
- Experience of working alongside provider organisations to deliver change
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market.
- Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in transformation/ change management/ service improvement.
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
- Must have an understanding of the local system challenges.
- Experience of working alongside provider organisations to deliver change
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market.
- Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
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
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).
