Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance Programme Manager

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance are excited to be recruiting for a Programme Manager to support the Lead Nurse portfolio and lead on the personalised care programme.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative and dynamic team responsible for cancer services across Surrey and Sussex. The Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance is a partnership that brings together leaders from different hospital trusts and other health and social organisation and covers a population of approx. 3.1 million people. Our aim is to improve the diagnosis and treatment and care outcomes for cancer patients in Surrey and Sussex.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for highly motivated and experienced individual who will lead a range of initiatives that will improve and transform outcomes and experience for cancer patients across Surrey and Sussex. In addition, they will work with system leaders from across all sectors of health to drive forward evidenced based and clinically led improvements and embed best practice within pathways.

You will develop an excellent relationship with clinical and administrative leadership and multi-disciplinary teams across the region to enable delivery of programmes of work that improve cancer services.

The Alliance offices are based in Guildford, with travel when necessary across Surrey and Sussex. Flexible working and secondments will be considered.

About us

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Date posted

16 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,337 to £74,415 a year per annum pro rata for part time INC HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

384-AGB-EMF17048

Job locations

Royal Surrey Hospital

Guildford

GU2 7XX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work collaboratively across Surrey and Sussex and other referring regions to deliver safe, effective and timely access to cancer services

Drive improvements in delivery of the cancer services, focusing on the personalised care interventions: Health needs assessments, patient stratified follow-up, cancer care reviews and end of treatment summaries

Improve cancer patients' experience through the delivery of excellence in clinical care, research, and education

Support the Clinical Leads in setting standards and providing quality assurance of cancer services across the Surrey and Sussex system to reduce variation by leading the end of treatment summary improvement work

Lead on the living with and beyond portfolio, including line management of the public and patient engagement lead and patient experience.

Programme manage the lead Nurse portfolio:

o Patient Engagement

o Personalised Care

o Health Inequalities

o Workforce

o Education including the roll out of ACCEND

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work collaboratively across Surrey and Sussex and other referring regions to deliver safe, effective and timely access to cancer services

Improve cancer patients' experience through the delivery of excellence in clinical care, research, and education

Lead on the living with and beyond portfolio, including line management of the public and patient engagement lead and patient experience.

Programme manage the lead Nurse portfolio:

o Patient Engagement

o Personalised Care

o Health Inequalities

o Workforce

o Education including the roll out of ACCEND

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Desirable

Formal programme management training qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Leadership and project management skills including change management

Desirable

Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Must have a thorough understanding of the background to and aims of current cancer policy and experience of implementing cancer policy within providers or Commissioner environments
Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures related to cancer care across multiple NHS organisations

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Desirable

Formal programme management training qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Leadership and project management skills including change management

Desirable

Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Must have a thorough understanding of the background to and aims of current cancer policy and experience of implementing cancer policy within providers or Commissioner environments
Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures related to cancer care across multiple NHS organisations

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.