Main area Product manager Grade Band 7 Contract 13 months (Fixed term until 31st March 2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 028-AC445-1224
Site Capital Quarter 2 Town Cardiff Salary £46,840 - £53,602 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/01/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/01/2025
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Our vision is Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Job overview
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This is an exciting opportunity to be a key part of the team to scope how to take forward a screening programme to reduce the impact of lung cancer in Wales. In line with a UK National Screening Committee recommendation, Public Health Wales has been asked by Welsh Government to carry out scoping work for implementation of a national targeted lung cancer screening programme for Wales. This will take on board learning from the Lung Health Check Operational Pilot being undertaken in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
An opportunity has arisen for a Product Manager, Lung Screening to develop a service and information model for national lung screening, as part of broader preparatory work, over the next 13 months. This role will involve working within a multi-disciplinary team of clinical, service and technical specialists to produce high quality deliverables for submission for consideration to Welsh Government.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide both strategic and technical advice on data and digital considerations, including specific products, in the development of a business case for a national targeted lung screening pathway.
2. Lead and manage a discovery phase of work to scope, identify and assess data and digital opportunities arising from a lung screening pathway, including specific product opportunities.
3. Lead the development of a digital architecture and roadmap, ensuring a clear product development and management approach is built into all aspects of work.
4. Develop a long-, medium- and short-term vision and objectives for digital development of a lung-screening pathway, through an architecture and roadmap.
5. Lead the way in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this throughout the lifecycle of a product.
6. Develop and leverage key stakeholder relationships in relation to digital and data with other Screening programmes, Health Improvement Division (in relation to Help Me Quit), Digital and Data Services, Digital Health and Care Wales, and digital leads in Local Health Boards.
7. Implement the approach utilising user research and the strategical long-term vision, to develop new ways of working and build effective solutions to problems using the findings of the research.
8. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
We are Public Health Wales – the national public health organisation for Wales. Our purpose is ‘working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help all people in Wales live longer, healthier lives. With our partners, we aim to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.
Together, our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the main source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales. Never more has public health been so important as we come through the Coronavirus pandemic, face the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis and tackle and prevent the harmful effects of climate change.
Our organisation is guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and from those wishing to work part time or on a job share basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communications
1. Communicate highly complex information relating to specific service changes. This will often be contentious where proposed change has a major impact on established ways of working and there is little consensus. Use sound communication and negotiation skills together with user research evidence to overcome barriers to understanding and resistance to change where there may be conflicting interests and priorities.
2. Make formal presentations to large groups of people often at a senior level. Facilitate workshops, show and tells, and lead communications with various users and stakeholders.
Improvement and Monitoring
1. Decision maker on a range of complex/highly complex product issues where there may be more than one course of action and where expert opinion may differ.
2. Drive forward an iteratively developed product within a service, ensuring improvements and developments are monitored and built upon throughout the lifecycle of the product.
3. Continually analyse performance and outcomes of a product, identifying areas for collaborative working to further the product development and improvement, working in iterative cycles.
4. Establish performance indicators and develop a monitoring framework to ensure the performance of complex product and service issues can be measured and reported in response to local, national and programme specific requirements.
Planning and Design
1. Lead in the co-ordination and development of a product throughout its product lifecycle, delivering plans to include the scheduling of activities and milestones.
2. Develop, support, raise awareness of and implement the product in the service. Implement agile methodologies to manage faster delivery of project outcomes.
3. Prepare, plan, and execute the full lifecycle of planning, programme, project and product management based on best practice, from inception to implementation and final delivery sign offs. This includes development of PIDs, business cases, prioritised requirement lists, delivery plans, management approach definitions, development of sign off criteria and the preparation of product review documentation.
4. Acknowledge the need to readjust plans when necessary, for example when the product is not achieving targets, and communicating the new effectively to relevant stakeholders.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent experience or equivalent level of skills and knowledge.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
Experience
* Experience of management and managing successful products at a senior level.
* Effective partnership working in the public sector.
* Significant experience of successfully delivering new products in challenging environments.
* Experience of effective user engagement with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Experience of working within the NHS.
* Experience of delivering a product following Agile PM methods.
Skills and Attributes
* Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
* Track record of complex problem solving in a product management environment.
* Competent in the use of desktop applications.
* Advanced IT skills in a range of desktop applications and project management tools e.g., Excel, Power BI, Miro.
Other
* Ability to travel around Wales, and possibly further afield as required.
* Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Public Health Wales reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.
Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.
If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact peoplesupport.PHW@wales.nhs.uk
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We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK.
The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.
In general, anyone joining our Trust who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.
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