Job summary
Cancer Alliance Programme Manager
From March 2024 the SWAG Cancer Alliance will be moving out of NHS England and into one of our local providers (North Bristol NHS Trust). Please ensure you understand what this means before you apply to the role by reaching out with any questions you may have.
This role leads and manages large scale programmes across the alliance workstreams; for example, recovery and operational performance, targeted lung health checks, innovation, reducing treatment variation, personalised care and support, along with supporting patient and carer involvement and health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job include:
Improving quality and outcomeso To work collaboratively with the regional and national programme teams and other key stakeholders to ensure that the defined programmes deliver improvements in outcomes for patients.o To lead the planning, delivery and assurance of large scale programmes of quality improvement which support commissioners in achieving outcome ambitions for patients. This will require strong project and programme management skills.o To develop and utilise specialist knowledge and experience in cancer care related to the use of network models and improvement science to achieve step changes in quality across complex pathways and systems of care.o To manage, and maintain credibility with all the key players within the alliance community, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high quality care. At times this will include acting as an 'honest broker' reconciling conflicting views and interests.o To understand, communicate and implement national policy through alliance improvement activities.o To keep abreast of national best practice, ensuring this is shared and widespread adoption secured through advanced influencing skills.o To foster a culture of innovation, through working in collaboration with academic and education structures such as Health Innovation Networks,
About us
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through ourseven regional teams, NHS England supports localintegrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care - NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector - to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
From April 2023, NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital became one single organisation, putting workforce, data, digital and technology at the heart of our plans to transform the NHS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job continued...
Enabling Clinical Leadership To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all alliance and NHS Commissioning Board activities. To work collaboratively across the NHS CB matrix, including integrating the National Directors portfolio with the Domain Leads. To foster and promote a culture of clinical engagement and influence ensuring alliance improvement initiatives are truly clinically led. To ensure widespread multidisciplinary involvement including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and clinical scientists in pathway improvement.
Enabling patient and public involvement To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision- making of the NHS Commissioning Board. To ensure patients, and their carers, are actively engaged in alliance activities. Particular focus is needed on ensuring pathways of care are patient centred.
Promoting equality and reducing inequalities To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality. To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action to ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
Partnership and cross boundary working
To ensure links and collaboration between the alliance and the varying strategic clinical networks where there are synergies in pathways and work priorities. To engage and develop collaborations for quality improvement across whole health communities, for the realisation of equitable access to quality care and the achievement of outcome ambitions for all patients. To work with other structures, including Academic Health Science Networks, aligning innovation, education, informatics and quality improvement. To work with national level bodies ensuring alignment of policy and service transformation for patients.
Leadership for transformational change To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the alliance. To be a highly motivated individual, demonstrating a transformational leadership style and adopt a flexible approach to meet the competing demands of the role.
Using insight and evidence for improvement to inform improvements
CLAHRCs and Local Education and Training Boards. To establish and maintain robust and systematic governance arrangements for improvement project activities. To establish and maintain highly effective communication routes in line with the needs of the diverse range of maternity stakeholder interests.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job continued...
Enabling Clinical Leadership To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all alliance and NHS Commissioning Board activities. To work collaboratively across the NHS CB matrix, including integrating the National Directors portfolio with the Domain Leads. To foster and promote a culture of clinical engagement and influence ensuring alliance improvement initiatives are truly clinically led. To ensure widespread multidisciplinary involvement including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and clinical scientists in pathway improvement.
Enabling patient and public involvement To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision- making of the NHS Commissioning Board. To ensure patients, and their carers, are actively engaged in alliance activities. Particular focus is needed on ensuring pathways of care are patient centred.
Promoting equality and reducing inequalities To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality. To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action to ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
Partnership and cross boundary working
To ensure links and collaboration between the alliance and the varying strategic clinical networks where there are synergies in pathways and work priorities. To engage and develop collaborations for quality improvement across whole health communities, for the realisation of equitable access to quality care and the achievement of outcome ambitions for all patients. To work with other structures, including Academic Health Science Networks, aligning innovation, education, informatics and quality improvement. To work with national level bodies ensuring alignment of policy and service transformation for patients.
Leadership for transformational change To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the alliance. To be a highly motivated individual, demonstrating a transformational leadership style and adopt a flexible approach to meet the competing demands of the role.
Using insight and evidence for improvement to inform improvements
CLAHRCs and Local Education and Training Boards. To establish and maintain robust and systematic governance arrangements for improvement project activities. To establish and maintain highly effective communication routes in line with the needs of the diverse range of maternity stakeholder interests.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Desirable
- Clinical qualification and experience of cancer services
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
- Member of relevant professional body.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
- Demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals .
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Desirable
- Clinical qualification and experience of cancer services
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
- Member of relevant professional body.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
- Demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals .
Additional information
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).
