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Job overview

Central to delivering the cancer element in the NHS Long Term Plan, forty Cancer Alliances are now established across England to deliver transformational change to improve cancer patient experience and clinical outcomes for the population across defined local geographies.

 To support this ambitious agenda, West Midlands Cancer Alliance, (covering 6 million people), has successfully secured significant national transformation funding with which to review, redesign and improve clinical services with a focus on earlier cancer stage diagnosis, shorter waiting times and continuous improvements in holistic and equitable patient care.

 As Cancer Alliance Workforce and Education Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers, staff and patients across the West Midlands region. To develop and implement a workforce development and education strategy for the West Midlands Cancer Alliance. The post holder will play a key role in ensuring that teams across West Midlands have the right mix of skills and resources to best meet the needs of people affected by cancer.

 In partnership with NHSE and stakeholders across the wider alliance, NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Systems, the post holder will have responsibility for the development and implementation of a workforce and education strategy for cancer across West Midlands. 

Main duties of the job

·       Work in partnership with NHSE and system partners to develop a workforce and education plan aligned to the cancer alliance programme of work.

·       To work with system leaders and clinical teams to ensure that workforce and education requirements are considered and planned for when developing strategic initiatives. 

·       It is envisaged that the strategic plan will clearly articulate:

o   The current workforce associated with the delivery of cancer pathways.

o   Future workforce requirements informed by a strategic planning process, including new role development.

o   How identified workforce gaps can be addressed over the next 5-10 years.

o   An associated assurance process/action plan

o   Build on the Cancer Workforce Plan Phase 1: Delivering the cancer strategy 2021.

·       Ensuring that uptake of workforce expansion programmes (e.g. clinical endoscopy) is maximised and that a planned, strategic approach to training and education exists across specialties, in line with changing trends in demand for services and activity.

·       Collaborate with the other Cancer Workforce Programme Managers to promote sharing and reduce duplication. Ensure workforce models are aligned to regional and national initiatives through collaboration with existing workforce forums and localities.

·       Produce an evaluation report of progress at required intervals to be shared with the Cancer Alliance Executive Board and any other relevant forums.

Working for our organisation

There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you will do.

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.

Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement.