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Job overview

On behalf of the Great North Care Alliance, the successful applicant will provide the coordination and collaboration of Urology services across the group. The individual, with the help of the clinical teams and the individual service management teams, will help to improve access and standardise pathways of care (in particular cancer) for patients across the three Trusts (Newcastle, Gateshead and Northumbria). The individual will report to the relevant boards and give updates to the alliance oversight on progress.

The post holder is required to plan and implement the most appropriate way of working to ensure delivery of the complex broad range of project objectives and to deliver a performance plan which will be sustainable and will impact across the Great North Care Alliance.  

Working collaboratively across all 3 organisations, the focus will be on optimising clinical pathways by establishing the demand and associated capacity across all Trusts.

This role offers an exciting and unique opportunity to work across several large organizations with the aim of improving clinical care across the network.

• Interview Date Friday, 16 August 2024
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

Main duties of the job

• Work closely with managers, clinicians, department heads, HR and Finance across the three Trusts in the alliance
• Plan and organise a range of complex activities and programmes
• Understand clinical pathways and work with clinical teams in identifying and introducing improvements
• communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a range of different audiences using a range of different communication methods
• working with a range of clinicians to bring about service change across complex pathways
• negotiate and influence to deliver change

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.