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Band 8a - Cancer Improvement Project Manager, Cancer Services
Band 8a
Main area: Cancer Services
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (post is funded from start date for 12 months)
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
Job ref: 360-B-6987-A
Department name: West Herts - General Staffing
Site: Cross Site
Town: Watford
Salary: £55,877 - £62,626 pa inc. HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a pan-organisational approach to service and pathway improvement in cancer services.
The Cancer Services team at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for a project manager to support the delivery of our cancer improvement programme.
Based within the cancer services team, the post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day management of key improvement projects that will drive quality and performance improvement in cancer services across multiple divisions and services at West Herts. One of the key projects will be Targeted Lung Health Checks as part of the national roll out.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop and showcase skills in managing change and delivering exciting improvements across cancer pathways.
Main duties of the job
Working across divisions, the post holder will hold a portfolio of projects within the Cancer Improvement Programme and be expected to work closely with operational, clinical, and nursing leads to deliver agreed improvement plans and to implement changes to services and across pathways.
You will be expected to work autonomously, establishing relationships with key stakeholders and working within a project management framework to deliver plans at pace to generate change and improved performance.
A key component of the role will also be to establish and maintain good governance and processes regarding project and programme coordination, ensuring there is control and consistency to all of the projects within the programme.
This role would suit those with experience of service change and change management, seeking to expand and develop their skills in service improvement and project management.
Working for our organisation
With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imagining models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes, and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together, and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional, and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.
We offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for coordinating and communicating with project stakeholders including operational managers, clinical leads, front line staff, patients, and carers.
Provide facilitation for project team meetings as well as supporting the delivery and facilitation of larger events.
Provide leadership in setting timescales, managing project milestones, and overall successful project completion for specific projects within own portfolio.
Assist project leads in developing project initiation documents, driver diagrams, measures, and operational definitions.
Support project teams in the generation and prioritisation of change ideas, and testing change using PDSA cycles.
Able to communicate sensitive or complex information about performance or change with a high level of sensitivity and diplomacy.
Able to present to clinical teams and colleagues across the Trust the scope, content, and timescales associated with projects within own portfolio.
Contribute to the writing of a range of reports and business cases on behalf of the Cancer services team and services within Trust divisions to a wide cross-section of the Trust. This will vary from Board level reports through to compiling programme-specific communications e.g. improvement programme newsletters.
Willingness to learn new and different QI techniques and be open to new ways of working and bringing fresh ideas to clinical teams.
Collaborate with other teams involved in QI projects both internal and external to the Trust.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Undergraduate degree or equivalent job-related experience
* Evidence of continuous personal development
Knowledge
* Knowledge of project management methodology
* Knowledge of change management / quality improvement methodology
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
* Knowledge of cancer waiting times and performance standards.
* Knowledge of IHI methodology and experience in application.
Experience
* Experience of improvement projects with operational and clinical teams
* Experience of managing projects involving clinicians and track record of successful engagement with clinical leaders.
* Experience of working within a PMO function.
* Experience of establishing new services
* Experience of working in cancer services.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and East Hertfordshire.
As an employer of nearly 6,000 people, the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Name: Janet Coates
Job title: Head of Cancer and Palliative Care
Email address: Janetcoates1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07787148842
If you have problems applying, contact
Address: Watford General Hospital
Vicarage Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD18 0HB
Telephone: 01442 365234
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