Cancer Operations Manager - Peterborough | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 - £81,138 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 9GZ |
| Company: | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6118827/176-C-6118827 |
Summary
We are seeking to recruit to an exciting new opportunity for the post of NWAFT Cancer Operations Manager for a 12-month secondment/fixed term post with possibility of permanency.
This post will play a pivotal role in ensuring senior leadership and oversight of the delivery and governance of cancer service provision across the Trust as we seek to move forward with enthusiasm and ambition to support sustained recovery in cancer performance. Our patients are and will be at the heart of our work, ensuring continuing high-quality and equitable patient-informed care along the end-to-end cancer pathways.
As the NWAFT Cancer Operations Manager you will work across the organisation to lead on and inspire high quality service delivery across Cancer Services, ensuring collaborative, seamless working and the development of innovations and improvements in pathway design, performance and equitable patient experience across the Trust. You will be a highly visible leader, building and maintain professional relationships, both within NWAFT and across the ICS/ICB and the region, championing best practice patient care, delivering improvement and innovation using national and regional benchmarking, ensuring that all staff understand and work towards the performance standards and identified improvements for cancer.
**Fixed Term or Secondment opportunity **
*** Please note interviews will be held Face to Face at Peterborough City Hospital on the 19th April***
As the Cancer Operations Manager, you will join the Trust’s Senior Leadership Team for cancer and contribute to the strategic leadership and operational decision making of the Trust. Liaising and collaborating with all internal and external stakeholders including patient representatives, you will provide visible, strong, and inspirational leadership. Specifically, you will:
• Manage Cancer Services across the Trust working as a core member of the cancer triumvirate working closely with the Clinical Director for Cancer and Cancer Lead Nurse
• Work with internal and external partners to ensure high quality services for cancer patients, in line with national performance standards, the national optimal timed cancer pathways and local strategies for cancer, and that adherence to these is maintained to ensure sustained operational performance
• Maximise clinical and other income streams
• Lead strategic and annual business planning for the agreed service areas
• Be the Lead Manager for Risk and co-ordinate mitigations
We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates form our local communities.
Benefits to you
• 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
• NHS Pension Scheme:
• Flexible working opportunities;
• Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
• Career development and training;
• Wellbeing support and activities;
• In-house physiotherapy Service;
• On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
• Subsidised staff parking (currently free).
• Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Managerial:Working proactively with the Deputy Chief Operating Officer for Planned Care/Cancer and within a cancer team structure comprising of the Clinical Director for Cancer and Cancer Lead Nurse, Divisional Operations Manager (cancer) and Cancer Performance Manager, the core responsibilities of the Cancer Operations Manager are to:
• Lead on the delivery of safe, effective, and responsive cancer services with a priority focus on achievement of the National Cancer Wait Times (CWT) Standards, and delivery of the Cancer Improvement Plans.
• Utilising best practice methodologies from both within and outside of the organisation.
• Remain up to date with, and oversee delivery of, the national agenda and strategic drivers for cancer, National Planning Guidance, the NHS Long Term Plan, and horizon scanning for future initiatives and priorities.
• Interpret the guidance into the Strategic and Business Plans and the overarching NWAFT Cancer Improvement Plan in conjunction with the Cancer Senior Leadership Steering Group.
• Maintain continuous oversight and drive the delivery of the above plans. This to include the specific ownership of the Cancer Improvement Plan and workstreams working closely with the cancer team/leads and Divisional Teams.
• Proactively manage the development, delivery, and monitoring of funding streams such as Cancer Alliance funding ensuring robust focus on the areas of challenge and in parallel work to future sustainable solutions.
• Maintain close working relationships with all key external and internal stakeholders, effectively representing the organisation. As a cross-divisional role that will include links with tertiary centres, creating and maintaining collaborative relationships both within the organisation and externally is essential.
• Responsible for presenting and communicating updates and reports on Cancer performance, observations, recommendations and improvement requirements at a service/clinical level, divisional level and Trust executive level in ways which will ensure engagement and understanding by both clinical, operational, and corporate staff.
• Responsible and accountable for specific directorate budgets, ensuring the optimum use of resources and establishing and maintaining effective management processes to ensure financial control.
• Thereafter personal responsibility for managing the defined service areas within the agreed and available resources, in accordance with the Trusts ‘Standing Financial Instructions’ and Standing Orders. Continually monitor and take corrective measures to redress areas of over expenditure to keep the division in balance.
• Utilising the complex information available or developing new information tools when required, to lead the production of service development proposals for the defined service areas, including costing and income projections.
• Lead responsibility for initiating and undertaking service reviews and then recommending and implementing new models of care as appropriate, involving clinical and managerial colleagues from the Trust and the ICS/ICB as required.
• Interpret, produce, and present complex information which supports the monitoring and improvement of clinical services within the defined areas.
• Ensure effective communication systems for all staff are in place enabling local and corporate information to be shared with all staff within the defined service area and for views to be fed upwards.
• Deputise for the Deputy Chief Operations Officer for Planned Care and Cancer across the broad range of his/her responsibilities, including covering of leave and specific Directorate and Divisional work streams on an ongoing basis as agreed.
Service Standards
• Lead, develop and manage services in accordance with relevant national clinical standards, including the national optimal best practice pathways, the Faster guidelines and GIRFT Playbooks.
• Establish, implement and monitor systems to assure the quality of services provided to patients.
• Establish, implement and lead effective risk management systems across the defined service areas, acting as Risk Lead in accordance with the Risk Management Policy.
• Lead and/or participate in the production of policies and procedures which facilitate the operational and quality effectiveness of the defined service areas and Directorate.
• Lead, develop and implement new projects and initiatives, following detailed analysis and interpretation of information to inform decisions, which improve services delivered to patients and the operational effectiveness of the defined service areas, Directorate and Trust.
• Participate in the on-call management rota for the Trust.
Human Resources
• Provide leadership to and manage non-medical staff within the defined service areas.
• Provide direct line management to the Cancer Performance Manager and other relevant roles as the services progress and evolve.
• Working closely with the Clinical Director, ensuring that the job plans align with all aspects that contribute to a robust delivery of the cancer agenda in terms of patient experience and satisfaction, performance, quality, breadth and scope, and equitable service provision; and that robust cross-cover arrangements are in place between the two roles.
• Ensure annual appraisals are undertaken, with personal development plans in place and acted upon, for all/other staff in the management remit.
• Ensure Trust policies on staff management are adhered to, upholding the Trust and Divisional values.
• Develop, implement, and maintain effective staff retention policies and practices.
• Ensure adequate orientation programmes are established and put in place for all grades of staff across the management area.
• Within the defined service area, lead the consideration, development and Implementation of new roles and ways of working.
Data Quality, Analysis and Judgement
• Lead and provide support on the development of robust data quality collection, audits and reporting that supports service development and improvement,
• Work in conjunction with the IT and BI teams and have oversight of relevant information systems and data sets, such as the national CWT and COSD and National Audits,
• Chair relevant cancer meetings including Cancer Improvement Plan workstreams
• Manage robust Audits and service evaluations within NWAFT,
• Create and/or support the development of reports for a wide range of audiences, presenting data appropriately for the level of understanding and engagement required from colleagues (clinical and non-clinical staff up to and including executive level).
Patient Engagement and Participation:Actively contribute and engage in the Trust’s Patient and Public Partnership Programme, putting in place patient experience group/s for cancer care, to ensure that patients are at the heart of service improvement and development and that all service change and innovation is patient informed.
Personal and Professional Development;Pursue lifelong learning and professional development agenda by participating in management supervision, appraisal and personal learning and development activities, keeping up to date with national and local developments in NHS policy and practice developments.
Policies and Procedures:Comply with all Trust policies and procedures with particular regard to: Risk Management; Health and Safety; Information Governance; Confidentiality; Data Quality; Freedom of Information; Equal Opportunities; No Smoking; Being Open: A duty to be candid.
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Apr 2024