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Head of Informatics | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 14 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £74,290 - £85,601 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 March 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B2 4BJ |
| Company: | Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6996598/225-WMCA-6996598 |
Summary
Cancer Alliances were recommended by the Independent Cancer Taskforce report: “Achieving World Class Cancer Outcomes – A Strategy for Cancer 2015 - 2020”. The West Midlands Cancer Alliances acts as the decision-making body for the transformation, planning and delivery of the Cancer Strategy across the West Midlands
The Cancer Alliance will adopt a whole-population, whole-pathway approach to addressing the ambitions of the Cancer Strategy. Working across the geographical footprint to transform services and care, reducing variation in the availability of good care and the outcomes of treatment while aiming to deliver continuous improvement in patient experience, and reductions in inequality of access.
The 2019 publication of the ‘NHS Long Term Plan’ brought with it a raft of cancer specific recommendations, the delivery of which have become the key role for the Cancer Alliances across NHS England.
In addition to the delivery of cancer performance standards and the objectives of the transformation programme for 2025/26, the post holder is responsible for working with the Managing Director and Regional SRO for Cancer on the development of a strategic vision for future cancer services for the population of the West Midlands based on the ambitions of the Operational Delivery Plan and the 10-year Cancer Plan.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
· Demonstrate significant experience and understanding of a breadth and depth of analytical methods (i.e. economics, statistics, social research, health related disciplines and operational research techniques) and their application, to provide timely analysis and intelligence to a standard which reflects current best practice.
· Work with other regional, Cancer Alliance and System informatics and analyst colleagues to manage resources; building a matrix team and providing appropriate coaching and support where relevant.
· Build and manage collaborative relationships across the health and care system to identify and challenge strategic cancer priorities ensuring data, intelligence and analyses are relevant to identify and making visible current cancer services provision and the causes relevant to these positions.
· Have excellent project management skills, including the ability to plan, manage and deliver a portfolio of projects, manage competing priorities and tight deadlines, and work autonomously to drive own work programme and that of team members
· Structure problems and develop appropriate analytical solutions, analysing and triangulating data in innovative ways, adapt approaches to deal with ambiguity. Deploy analytical judgement in dealing with complex problems or missing data.
There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you will do.
The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.
Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement.
Key Functional Responsibilities
Operational requirements
· Deputising for the Associate Director- Corporate as and when required.
· Directly manages the cancer informatics and intelligence resource for the West Midlands Cancer Alliance
· Working within the overall strategic objectives, devise, implement and monitor the strategy. Evaluate, interpret and locally implement best practice.
· Provide overall management to the whole function.
· Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the organisational strategy.
· Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet the needs of the audience.
· Ensure that best practice is developed and s shared across the systems
· Motivate and influence others to realign their practice where necessary.
· Personally lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level internal and external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
· Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to maximise service benefits.
· Oversee the tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
· Ensure the securing of value for money, assuring relevant factors such as quality and governance.
· Monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables.
· Develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance
· Devise, manage and update policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology, rules, standards and thresholds.
· Support the creation and locally implements the operational strategy and business plan, clearly identifying links to national, regional and local priorities and policy objectives.
· Develop and implement strategies for improving performance and processes, ensuring stakeholders representation.
· Drive process efficiency in the continuous development of the end-to-end cycle and its associated performance metrics.
· Accountable for short, medium and long-term strategic business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
· Responsible for linking people, resource and strategy to organisational strategy.
Financial and Physical Resources
· Budgetary responsibility for the function and the services provided within that function.
· Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of these budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year, compliant with the Financial Instruction.
People Management
· Build collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.
· Support an effective matrix approach to achieve the Alliances objectives,
· To manage, motivate, inspire and develop staff within the team to ensure that they can deliver the employee relations cases
· Responsible for the recruitment and development of staff, including undertaking appraisal, ensuring team and individual development and where appropriate progression of employee relations matters.
Information Management.
· Responsible for devising, developing and implementing appropriate information sharing systems.
· Lead the creation, maintenance and review implementation, of information systems for collecting, evaluating and interpreting complex data. To inform short and medium- and long-term strategies.
· Develop and present reports, summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, providing progress reports for senior staff or groups of staff as directed from time to time, tailoring content to meet the needs of the audience.
Research and Development
· Ensure the team can access best practice and current information within specialism and benefit from innovations.
· Commission Research and Development initiatives when required.
Policy and Service Development
· Identify and assess opportunities for new services and threats to existing services and market developments.
· Develop plans and seize opportunities, mitigate threats and deliver strategic objectives. Within own function making recommendations for service delivery.
· Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments, to assist in the thinking and definition of strategy discussions.
Key Working Relationships
· Regular contact with internal and external stakeholders, sensitive, complex, contentious and confidential issues.
· Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide project, information and analytical advice and expertise.
· Oversee the team to develop and implement processes and systems that align to strategy.
· Present verbal, written and numerical information and issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Liaise with other Managers to share best practice
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Mar 2025