Lead Cancer Manager – NHS

Job Description

Job title: Lead Cancer Manager – NHS

Company: Spinwell Global

Job description: About The Role

Role: Lead Cancer Manager
Contract Length: 3-6 months
Location: Worthing but visiting sites in Chichester and Brighton
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £39.03 per hour
Security Clearance: DBS

Spinwell is recruiting for a Lead Cancer Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD CANCER MANAGER

The post holder will provide operational leadership and management to the designated Directorate and its associated workforce and services.

Working in partnership with other members of the Divisional Management Team, the post holder will promote effective governance and ensure that the highest standard of clinical care is delivered. They will be responsible for ensuring all clinical and non-clinical performance indicators, targets and objectives are met in line with national and local standards.

Working with the Divisional Management Team and other divisional teams, the post holder will contribute to the development, delivery and translation of Divisional and Trust clinical service strategies, corporate and divisional objectives and the development and implementation of business plans and service developments. The post holder will take a lead role in ensuring that quality, performance, CIP and budgetary targets are monitored and improvement plans are devised and implemented where necessary to enable compliance.

As the senior operational lead for cancer you will be required to lead, manage and support the development of all our services across all cancer tumour sites, ensuring continuous improvement to service delivery, performance and efficiency; working on the delivery of high quality, effective patient-focused services and the achievement of efficiency targets, activity, financial and quality targets. Working closely with the other divisional operational teams, you will ensure our operational cancer priorities are met across the Trust and that patients are put first in everything we do.

We are looking for an individual who has extensive experience in a leadership role within an Acute Hospital setting including experience of cancer pathways with a proven track record of performance management and improvement. You will be required to demonstrate experience of successful management of change and have experience of developing teams, using appraisal and accountability frameworks to support this

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE LEAD CANCER MANAGER

• First degree or equivalent in relevant subject.
• Extensive up to date knowledge of the NHS and cancer targets.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Masters degree level qualification in Management or Health related subject or equivalent knowledge.
• Experience in a senior management role.
• Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance initiatives.
• Experience of engagement with workforce colleagues where you have driven strategic plans forward to the point of delivery, establishing clear work priorities, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
• Knowledge and understanding of National Development Strategies and delivery of NHS Healthcare services.
• Knowledge understanding of Clinical Governance and risk management systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of recruitment and retention of staff and experience of successful deployment.
• Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands.
• A confident and demonstrable track record in using quantitative, qualitative and financial information to inform delivery planning and in monitoring performance.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of human resource policy and procedures.
• Communicating and translating highly complex information to staff, the divisional board and other parts of the Trust and key stakeholders with clarity and positivity.
• Active collaboration with colleagues in the local health community to develop effective multi-agency partnerships.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships particularly within clinical teams of care group to ascertain problems faced, help implement.
• Change to enhance and improve patient care and service continuity.
• Occasional conversations with patients and relatives as a part of management in complaints or RCAs therefore requiring compassion, empathy and understanding whilst delivering potentially difficult subject matter.
• Lead in assessing the capacity and demand for services, regularly monitoring productivity to ensure patient flows through the system (diagnostic, RTT and cancer) are safe, effective and deliver high quality outcomes & performance.
• Support and/or lead the investigation of complaints/incidents/PALs enquiries working with clinical leadership to ensure issues arising from the investigation are suitably addressed as well as the opportunity taken to improve and learn within the services.
• Feed in to divisionally lead performance management systems, contributing to frequent divisional meetings and reports with accurate and proactive assessments of services.
• Contribute to the formulation, planning and development of long-term strategic and operational business plans in line with divisional and Trust priorities.
• Accountable for the delivery of operational performance of the service, supporting the financial, capacity and workforce plans for all areas of services designated, in collaboration with the Senior Management Team of the division.
• Requirement to join senior on-call manager rota to provide an agreed amount of single site on-call manager responsibilities in relation to the safe and effective management of the Hospital sites out of hours.
• Empathy, compassion and understanding throughout any and all patient engagement; often at challenging times.
• In partnership with divisional leads (clinical and non-clinical) across divisions including finance and HR to contribute to strategic development of the divisional services through local innovation and service improvements.
• Planning, delivery and evaluation of the quality improvement initiatives within the designated departments and areas within the remit of this post.
• Contribute and be responsible for policy and procedure documents within the Care Group.
• Effective delegated budgetary management and budget setting for all departments and services within Care Group.
• Working to develop CIP plans to ensure services are delivered and resources utilised cost-effectively in collaboration with divisional leadership team.
• Actively participate in business cases and bids for capital revenue funding within specific service areas.
• Ensure performance indicators relevant to the specific work areas arereported within the Division.
• Monitor effective staff communication, information systems and involvement ensuring staff have the opportunity to be involved in and influence the planning and development of services.
• Conduct regular reviews of the services in terms of quality and effectiveness, introducing projects to deal with service change, modernisation, CQUINS, CIPS and manage these accordingly.
• Monitor effective staff communication, information systems and involvement ensuring staff have the opportunity to be involved in and influence the planning and development of services.

If you are a Lead Cancer Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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Expected salary: £39.03 per hour

Location: Chichester – Worthing, West Sussex

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