Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career in an innovative and challenging role? Then please read on to find out how University Hospitals Birmingham is leading the way in cancer care across Birmingham and Solihull.
1 in 4 people in the UK are living with Cancer. Therefore it is essential that we support our patients and their families to deliver the best care we can. The Long Term Plan set out by NHS England in 2019 was to ensure every person diagnosed with cancer will have access to personalised care, including holistic needs assessment, a care plan and health and wellbeing information and support.
The post holder will be oversee the Personalised Care Team and will work alongside with Clinical Nurse Specialists Clinical Teams, Allied Health Professionals and Divisions. The post holder will take day to day responsibility for key programmes of work to deliver cancer personalised care and improve the experience of patients living with and beyond cancer at University Hospitals Birmingham.
In return, you can expect a warm and friendly welcome from the Cancer and wider UHB Team - where our values of Kind, Connected and Bold underpin everything we do.
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can; support staff through a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
Could you fill this role?
Cancer Services and the newly established personalised care team are passionate and focused on improving training and education of staff working within cancer as well as a wider Trust. This post will be accountable for leading and operationally managing the Programme and implementing a range of Personalised Care improvement initiatives. We are looking for someone who can lead this vision by:
Providing credible, effective and visible leadership in establishing cancer personalised care at UHB through the establishment of a central team.
- Leading on the implementation and surveillance of agreed operational process, service metrics and escalation process.
- Providing and receiving highly complex and sensitive information, requiring the post holder to negotiate, influence and act with diplomacy at a high level.
*Supporting the Lead Cancer Nurse and cancer services with interpreting national policy / guidelines and report on best practice to inform and influence service change and improvements in the Trust. *Proactively managing and advising on risk reduction actions for key risks and issues associated with the programme.
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
- Degree Level Qualification
- Educated to Masters Level in a Health Related Subject or equivalent demonstrable experience supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses or equivalent related to Cancer and or personalised care.
- Qualification or equivalent experience in change management, project management methodologies
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to post
- Post graduate Leadership training/ development course
- Registered Nurse on the NMC Register or HCPC Registered professional
- Professional clinical background (nursing, allied health professional or equivalent) experience of cancer care
- Significant knowledge of the recommendations and evidence for cancer personalised care
- Knowledge of the current cancer personalised care agenda
- Significant management experience within a multidisciplinary environment across healthcare sectors including local service / community and health and social care partners
- Experience in use of data for continuous quality improvement and outcome monitoring and assurance
- Experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex NHS or social care environment
- Experience of networking and influencing across organisational boundaries and facilitating collaborative working
- Experience in setting objectives/ KPI's
- Experience in leading and implementing safety / quality and experience initiatives and sustainable service improvement within agreed timescales and budgets
- Experience in writing reports /presenting information Internally / externally in a timely manner to a range of Senior Manager's
- Can demonstrate working knowledge of relevant literature, research and legislation relating to the Cancer Personalised Care Agenda and key initiatives for delivery
- Knowledge of national; regional cancer strategy and key objectives around the Living with & Beyond Cancer and Personalised Care Agenda
- Knowledge of service improvement methodology/tools
- Experience of using Microsoft Office/ 365 specifically Word, Excel and Teams
- Demonstrable appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Able to think strategically and translate vision for local service into delivery by collaboration and partnership.
- Experience in developing and implementing governance frameworks to support service and quality delivery , improvement and sustainability including learning from incidents or quality assurance audits/ National policy
- Knowledge of national; regional cancer strategy and key objectives around the Living with & Beyond Cancer and Personalised Care Agenda
- Able to demonstrate effective leadership style, able to build confidence / motivate staff including the ability to encourage self-initiative, good practice and completion of projects within team environments
- Ability to analyse complex issues/problems, identify necessary actions and make recommendations in order to follow these through
- Ability to write reports in short, changing timescales whilst subject to frequent interruptions requiring immediate responses.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary form more senior management when appropriate.
- Possess excellent written and oral presentation and organisational skills
- Ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff in an open and transparent management style.
- Ability to remain focussed and demonstrates vision and direction utilising highly developed communication, listening and questioning skills.
- Possess excellent time-management skills and ability to work on own initiative and where required as part of a senior team
- Able to deal with difficult & sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to work in multi-disciplinary environments - evidence of working with people at all levels both inside and outside the organisation.
- Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills, overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance and reaching agreements.
- Ability to work flexibly and where necessary outside of core working hours.
- Ability to travel across all Trust sites/ services
- Understanding of broad NHS roles and responsibilities, structures and processes.
- Advanced decision-making skills with the ability to think, plan and deliver strategically
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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