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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Workforce Project Manager will:
* Lead planning and delivery of the programme, including the identification of key milestones, deliverables, and benefits.
* Work with stakeholders to support the delivery of the cancer workforce strategy/implementation plan, ensuring this aligns to national, regional, and local objectives.
* Promote the importance of workforce and education transformation in the delivery of all NWRODN projects/the NWRODN strategy, and organise events where appropriate.
* Build links with NWRODN boards to ensure workforce and education transformation is always on the agenda.
* Link in with relevant national, regional workforce groups where appropriate.
* Promote the strategy within the region to inform local workforce and education strategies.
* Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
The indicative roles and responsibilities are as follows:
Leadership and expertise
* Act as a workforce subject matter expert alongside the Programme Lead.
* Be a champion for workforce transformation in the Network, as well as coordinate and respond to national/regional work.
* Exert influence upon senior clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure that implementation of the strategy remains a priority in their own work programmes.
* Remain up to date with workforce developments from a national/regional perspective and disseminate these developments to the appropriate audience.
* Act as the workforce and education representative on various cancer pathway boards.
Set-up and organisation
* Manage the administration of various workforce meetings and project specific boards.
* Oversee the preparation of agendas, papers, minutes for specific meetings and follow up agreed actions with responsible individuals, holding them to account for lack of progress.
* Build relationships across the Network, including primary, secondary and community care as well as public & patient engagement.
* Manage workforce project dashboards to measure success within the programme.
Communication and support
* Be a point of contact for various workforce workstreams.
* Lead the development of innovative proposals for workforce transformation projects.
* Create reports and papers to update relevant boards and project steering groups on project developments and to seek approval for recommended action.
Data and information
* Keep up to date with research and literature from national and international sources relevant to the cancer workforce.
* Collate data and literature into concise reports and tools and present to the Network Oversight Group (NOG), making clear recommendations for action.
* Review how workforce data is captured across the Network to ensure this is fit for purpose and influences the workforce programme.
Planning and reporting
* Manage Workforce project plans for the various projects ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads.
* Ensure that the work plan reflects and contributes towards the delivery of the Workforce implementation plan and objectives of improved clinical care and patient experience.
* Coordinate the reporting of outcome measures so they can be monitored during the year.
* Track progress against these outcome measures and provide progress reports to project steering groups and the NOG.
* Maintain a risk register for the relevant workstreams, reporting risks and issues to the Programme Lead and NOG when required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Educated to postgraduate degree level or equivalent or significant experience of working at a similar level.
Desirable criteria
* Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE 2 practitioner or equivalent).
Experience
Essential criteria
* Has experience of leadership without direct authority.
* Has experience of working in the NHS, Local Authority, voluntary or private sector at a senior level.
* Has experience managing projects within the Health and Care system.
* Has worked as part of a multidisciplinary team in a healthcare environment.
* Has worked with senior clinical colleagues to improve services.
* Has led projects in complex and challenging environments.
* Has managed and reported on risks and issues.
Desirable criteria
* Has experience leading workforce transformation.
* Has managed members of staff.
* Has experience monitoring finances linked to projects.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Can use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint software to a high standard.
* Can produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate.
* Can create and deliver presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders.
* Can influence others to develop a shared vision.
* Can challenge other team members and senior colleagues when necessary.
* Numerate and able to understand complex financial information.
* Can analyse very complex information from a wide range of sources where material may be conflicting.
* Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete.
* Can develop plans for the short and long term for services that extend across multiple organisations and adjust them as required.
* Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate.
* Can manage own workload.
* Can make informed decisions in the absence of complete information.
* Can work to demanding and changing timescales.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Has an understanding of the Cancer Workforce transformation.
Desirable criteria
* Has an understanding of cancer services in the North West.
Values
Essential criteria
* Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours.
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