Deputy Delivery Manager - 9 month secondment opportunity

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people. Our newly formed Trust, comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend, is determined to provide the best health services for its local population. We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation working in the best interests of the people we serve.

Job overview

An exciting new fixed term (secondment) opportunity has become available within Cancer Services.

This 9-month post will focus on automation projects and improvements in Cancer Access.

So, if you have experience in Cancer performance and tracking experience and are an enthusiastic and compassionate Team Leader, we want to hear from you today.

Main duties of the job

Design and Develop process mapping
• The post holder will be expected to analyse a wide range of data and interpret.
• There is a need to be highly accurate to ensure that future capacity plans are correct and provide optimum patient service.
• Ensure the that the operational performance is effectively managed to the meet the Trust and Divisional objectives, supporting the Cancer Service Unit Manager to achieve this.
• Support policy development when new standards are introduced.
• Utilise knowledge of patient pathways, and how this information is recorded on Patient Administration Systems and Cancer Systems in order to determine Cancer performance status, and alert necessary management teams of any recurrent themes.
• Support the development for departmental procedures and guidelines, ensuring they are embedded within the team.
• Respresent Cancer Access in analytical meetings and planning meeting.
• To analyse data to ensure that stages of Cancer treatment are accurately recorded to determine areas of concern.
• Attend Project Management Course to support this change project
• Preparation of weekly reporting.

Working for our organisation

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of this interesting role, where you will be at the forefront of improving the Cancer Service delivery for our patients, please see attached job description.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant cancer access experience
• Demonstrable team leader experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excel skills - demonstrated through work experience
• Power BI skills - demonstrated through work experience

Desirable criteria

• Cancer Validation Skills - - demonstrated through work experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Deputy Service Delivery Manager Job Description (PDF, 696.3KB)
• Privacy Policy (PDF, 441.0KB)
• AFC Pay Poster 23/24 (PDF, 40.2KB)