Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9-17:00)
- Job ref
- 249-6509813
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Western NHS Trust
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Macmillan Genomics Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Programme Manager, to develop a TVCA wide sustainable commissioned model, to deliver the regional plan aligned to the NHS Genomics Strategy published in October 2022.
The model and its development, need to ensure equitable access to cancer genomics testing with appropriate cancer clinical pathways ensuring the plan covers the following four priority areas over the next 5 years:
Embedding genomics across the NHS, through a world leading innovative service model from primary and community care through to specialist and tertiary care.
Delivering equitable genomic testing for improved outcomes in cancer, rare, inherited and common diseases and in enabling precision medicine and reducing adverse drug reactions.
Enabling genomics to be at the forefront of the data and digital revolution, ensuring genomic data can be interpreted and informed by other diagnostic and clinical data.
Evolving the service through cutting-edge science, research and innovation to ensure that patients can benefit from rapid implementation of advances.
The programme will focus largely on the planning and development of all elements of the programme, establishing governance and infrastructure and securing active involvement of stakeholders in its delivery.
The project will focus on project mobilisation and evaluation.
Main duties of the job
- Plan and organise a broad range of complex activities i.e. pro-actively facilitate agreement and approval of project scope, goals, deliverables and benefits; adjusting strategic plans which may impact multiple service performances.
- Formulate strategic plans across multiple organisations.
- Initiate and develops service improvement across complex multi organisational environments locally.
- Review, analyse and interpret on-going individual project deliverables to assess the impact on achieving the wider programme objectives, and adjust plans accordingly.
- Make dynamic adjustments to project plans to ensure key milestones are met.
- Hold others to account, in line with agreed milestone plans and delivery targets, identifying risks and initial
remedial actions. - Report any longer-term impact at strategic, organisational or operational levels to the Head of Cancer Services and Cancer Alliance to enable the assessment of impact on the other work streams.
- Review new or emerging national guidance and its impact on programme delivery.
Working for our organisation
“Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Lead and oversee the projects on a day-to-day basis, being responsible for managing allocated resources to ensure overall programme delivery in line with the plans submitted.
Develop and deliver effective engagement and communication strategies working across multiple stakeholders and programmes.
Ability to provide, receive and present and lead discussions of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of staff i.e. Cancer Alliance Board and other work stream steering groups.
Ability to persuade board, senior clinical and managerial leads, using own expertise and/or drawing on evidence-based data, of the importance of the programme whilst highlighting risks and outcomes.
Ability to negotiate and motivate senior stakeholders on the delivery of the programme particularly the sensitivities where change in services may affect overall performance.
Make formal presentations to large groups, using multiple media for communicating complex information.
Lead in compiling regular (monthly) progress reports for the Cancer Alliance Board and groups within the ICS assurance framework, identifying and managing risks and issues.
Use highly developed motivational skills to encourage collaborative working and ensure maximum uptake of the programme by stakeholders.
Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area within the NHS.
- Professional programme or project management qualification (e.g. MSP/Prince2) or equivalent experience
- Appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England, other Arm’s Length and Executive bodies and individual provider and commissioning organisations within Swindon CCG and the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of informing/delivering solutions through coproduction
Experience
Essential criteria
- Practical experience of managing multiple successful projects, including the development of complex project management frameworks, monitoring and review processes.
- Experience of setting up PMO functions including understanding of project governance.
- Performance management, including monitoring of delivery to timescales.
- Ability to efficiently prioritise own workload and the workload of others whilst working within very tight deadlines and with differing priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of collaborative working essential, with proven ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels across a wide range of organisations.
Desirable criteria
- Examples of leading on change management/service improvement within the NHS and/or social care
- Experience of using Microsoft Project Office IT packages such as MS Visio and MS Project.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and awareness of key national policy initiatives affecting the NHS, local government and social care.
- Knowledge and experience of project management tools, techniques and methodology.
- Ability to work with and through ambiguity and an ability to ‘think on their feet’ when dealing with issues and problems.
- Able to assess highly complex and conflicting information, including data requiring analysis and interpretation.
- Able to interpret highly complex facts or situations, requiring analysis of national guidelines and protocols.
- Ability to interpret and achieve results through influence and negotiation with a wide range of stakeholders
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Brown
- Job title
- Lead Cancer Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01793 607235
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