Job summary
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A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to lead and oversee the team that will take forward the effective implementation of a high profile, whole system programme and strategy of transforming cancer services for the county.
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 also be responsible for taking up any commissioning responsibilities and queries that relate to cancer services, delivery, improvement and performance; reporting to the Director of Elective Care.
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 Elective Care Transformation & Commissioning team is made up of a Director of Elective Care with a general Elective Care team and now a dedicated Cancer team with the objectives of delivering the large scale programme of change and improvement needed.
The Cancer team takes responsibility for successful and timely delivery of the overarching Cancer strategy and transformation programme, including 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
Job Purpose
The Cancer Programme Manager will report directly to the Director of Elective Care, and operating as the lead manager for the department will be responsible for:
- The post holder will develop, agree and co-ordinate an effective Cancer strategy for promoting excellence and innovation across NHS STW for cancer.
- Be the principal leader of cancer innovation and excellence across NHS STW. Leading 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
- Ensure the development, maintenance, and delivery of a programme of innovation and change that drives service improvement and performance, including the leadership of the Cancer Programme team
- Lead the development of commissioning models for cancer.
- Ensure the NHS STW cancer programme is consistent and resilient and that it has effective plans and behaviours for managing service pressures.
- Monitor and respond to system performance, overseeing corrective action and return to performance.
- Be responsible for the development, implementation and management of the ICBs long-term strategic cancer recovery plan. Act as the ICB and system lead for the plan and be able to adapt and update the plan as targets are met.
- Be responsible for all cancer plans across the ICB which impact across the wider ICB and system and be able to lead to ensure plans are met. Be the lead for review and implementation should plans become uncertain or require adaptation in line with local and national cancer targets.
- Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
- Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies.
- 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
- Develop and deliver the cancer strategy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence.
- Deliver the cancer programme of change and improvement.
- Monitor system performance, ensuring responsiveness to system pressures and performance issues, overseeing return to performance.
- Provide overall management to the Cancer Programme.
- Personally lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level staff from external stakeholders, providing an expert level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
- Manages the NHS STW Cancer Programme.
- Manages the Cancer Programme resources.
- Forges positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of NHS STW.
- To 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.
- The postholder will analyse highly complex facts and situations, using this data and information to develop a range of options to successfully lead the cancer team in line with performance analysis across the ICB & ICS relating to Cancer.
- The postholder will be expected to analyse highly complex facts and situations and use this information to lead and set strategic system wide objectives to drive reform and innovation across system wide cancer team.
Responsibilities
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 proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements which may impact.
- Proposes changes to own function and making recommendations Sector wide.
Financial and Physical resources
- Supported by the PMO, reports on programme health and effectiveness and makes recommendations to the Service Delivery and Performance committee for investment and disinvestment in initiatives.
- Leads 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.
- The post holder will have budgetary responsibility for the Cancer Programme and the services provided within that function. This will include evaluating 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,
- The post holder will be expected to bid for monies from key strategic partners. Ensure that financial investments from external partners are effectively managed.
- The post holder will be directly responsible for all budgets associated with the management of the Cancer Programme.
Human Resources
- The postholder is the lead manager for the ICB cancer team, a major activity area, and will line manage a team of 8 colleagues. This will include the setting of objectives, holding of 1:1s, absence management etc.
- Manages the Cancer Programme resources.
- Liaises with the commissioning support organisation regarding CSU staff supporting the cancer system.
- Forges positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of NHS STW.
Information Resources
- Responsible for the development, management and maintenance of systems and framework across the organisation.
- 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 and frequent research and development into nationwide cancer workstreams and teams to enable best practice and progress within the ICB & wider system cancer teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The Cancer Programme Manager will report directly to the Director of Elective Care, and operating as the lead manager for the department will be responsible for:
- The post holder will develop, agree and co-ordinate an effective Cancer strategy for promoting excellence and innovation across NHS STW for cancer.
- Be the principal leader of cancer innovation and excellence across NHS STW. Leading 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
- Ensure the development, maintenance, and delivery of a programme of innovation and change that drives service improvement and performance, including the leadership of the Cancer Programme team
- Lead the development of commissioning models for cancer.
- Ensure the NHS STW cancer programme is consistent and resilient and that it has effective plans and behaviours for managing service pressures.
- Monitor and respond to system performance, overseeing corrective action and return to performance.
- Be responsible for the development, implementation and management of the ICBs long-term strategic cancer recovery plan. Act as the ICB and system lead for the plan and be able to adapt and update the plan as targets are met.
- Be responsible for all cancer plans across the ICB which impact across the wider ICB and system and be able to lead to ensure plans are met. Be the lead for review and implementation should plans become uncertain or require adaptation in line with local and national cancer targets.
- Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
- Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies.
- 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
- Develop and deliver the cancer strategy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence.
- Deliver the cancer programme of change and improvement.
- Monitor system performance, ensuring responsiveness to system pressures and performance issues, overseeing return to performance.
- Provide overall management to the Cancer Programme.
- Personally lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level staff from external stakeholders, providing an expert level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
- Manages the NHS STW Cancer Programme.
- Manages the Cancer Programme resources.
- Forges positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of NHS STW.
- To 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.
- The postholder will analyse highly complex facts and situations, using this data and information to develop a range of options to successfully lead the cancer team in line with performance analysis across the ICB & ICS relating to Cancer.
- The postholder will be expected to analyse highly complex facts and situations and use this information to lead and set strategic system wide objectives to drive reform and innovation across system wide cancer team.
Responsibilities
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 proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements which may impact.
- Proposes changes to own function and making recommendations Sector wide.
Financial and Physical resources
- Supported by the PMO, reports on programme health and effectiveness and makes recommendations to the Service Delivery and Performance committee for investment and disinvestment in initiatives.
- Leads 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.
- The post holder will have budgetary responsibility for the Cancer Programme and the services provided within that function. This will include evaluating 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,
- The post holder will be expected to bid for monies from key strategic partners. Ensure that financial investments from external partners are effectively managed.
- The post holder will be directly responsible for all budgets associated with the management of the Cancer Programme.
Human Resources
- The postholder is the lead manager for the ICB cancer team, a major activity area, and will line manage a team of 8 colleagues. This will include the setting of objectives, holding of 1:1s, absence management etc.
- Manages the Cancer Programme resources.
- Liaises with the commissioning support organisation regarding CSU staff supporting the cancer system.
- Forges positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To manage, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of NHS STW.
Information Resources
- Responsible for the development, management and maintenance of systems and framework across the organisation.
- 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 and frequent research and development into nationwide cancer workstreams and teams to enable best practice and progress within the ICB & wider system cancer teams.
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
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in NHS STW and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
- 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.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Patient and outcome focussed.
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
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in NHS STW and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential
- 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.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Patient and outcome focussed.
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).
