Director of Cancer Performance
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and reporting
Build and maintain high levels of support for Greater Manchester Cancer and Greater Manchester & East Cheshire Chief Operating Officer Committee and their performance programmes amongst all member organisations. This will require the establishment of effective and productive working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, champions and advocates.
Present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to large groups, teams and individuals at senior levels and also to patients, communities and the public, enabling clear decisions to be made. The service changes are likely to be extensive, highly contentious, and routinely subject to external scrutiny from regulators and political representatives.
Influence, negotiate and motivate teams to enable performance delivery across Greater Manchester and each of the service providers, including co-ordination with other cancer and related service initiatives as well as managing interdependencies with the wider Health and Social Care partnership programmes of work.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Lead the production of key strategic documents such as strategic plans, outline cases and business cases
Analyse and interpret a range of highly complex health, financial, performance and workforce data, along with other sources of information including patient experience and feedback from informal and statutory consultation. This will include data that is readily available from a range of NHS and non-NHS sources and also new datasets which will provide objective measurement of outcomes and benefits and which will influence change.
Collate, interpret and clarify highly complex data to inform decision-making. Base adjustments and revisions to the programme on detailed analysis of all available data, making clear recommendations for action where conclusions are not obvious and subject to scrutiny and challenge.
Interpret emerging policy to meet the performance delivery requirements. Lead the development and approval of new local policies, guidance and protocols to support effective programme delivery.
Demonstrate effective and transparent decision-making, basing decisions on full option appraisals with the ability to clearly articulate the relative benefits and dis-benefits of each option. Support recommendations with a clear and concise rationale
Planning and Organisational Skills
Deliver effective matrix working within Greater Manchester Cancer and Greater Manchester & Each Cheshire Chief Operating Officer Board, ensuring effective cross organisational working to drive quality initiatives
Deliver the recommendations of the National Cancer Strategy through the development and delivery of a programme of quality and outcomes improvement across the region.
Establish and deploy effective governance processes and policies to ensure clarity and accountability
Maintain a robust programme infrastructure comprising suitable levels of resource and capability in relation to project management, communications, finance, workforce management, and PMO functions.
Physical Skills
Regular use of IT systems including advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications
Responsibility for Patient and Client Care
Act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of Greater Manchester Cancer.
Embed patient and public involvement within Greater Manchester Cancer and at all levels of decision making.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development
Ensure learning is shared across Greater Manchester and also regionally and nationally, to produce a lasting legacy for future transformation programmes.
Develop and implement a project and programme management methodology ensuring that workstreams are managed with clear accountabilities including PIDs, project plans, KPIs and risk registers.
Lead development of polices for Greater Manchester Cancer and nationally where applicable.
Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources
This post is the budget holder for multiple service budgets associated with the delivery of cancer transformation across the locality
Lead the development and approval of funding bids and business cases including the establishment of a compelling case of need required to support the implementation of performance programmes. This will also include budget analysis, modelling and projection to ensure that the programmes continue to maximise all available external funding and revenue streams throughout their lifecycle.
Responsible for the effective prioritisation of projects to maximise programme impact and delivery, ensuring that there is measurable and sustainable progress.
Accountable for authorising expenditure, commissioning and procurement processes for the programmes in line with agreed delegated authorities/decision rights.
Ensure a comprehensive benefits realisation strategy is in place, including management of benefits beyond the lifecycle of the programmes to ensure that the programmes delivers the expected outcomes and improvements
Ensure changes necessary to delivery are safe, clinically robust, risk assessed and fully consulted upon in line with all statutory guidance and regulatory standards
Responsibility for Human Resources
Create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensures we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
Model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes, embedding this approach and using insight and evidence for improvement. Responsible for OD functions related to performance delivery.
Be accountable for the development and review of all direct reports and those in wider teams of influence
Ensure programme/project teams have the right skill mix and resources to effectively deliver programmes. This will include the development of new roles/job specifications, working with other partner organisations or commissioning additional specialist services
Manage the relationship with the staff from the key delivery partners by establishing effective and robust processes for partnership working, governance and performance management.
Responsibility for Information Resources
Ensure evidence and analytics are secured to support and inform performance activities and support insight in the use of these to drive quality improvement developing an excellent organisation.
Commission and contract for new information resources as required. Develop local implementation plans and processes relating to the collection of all performance data.
Responsibility for Research and Development
Undertake audits of own work areas as required.
Commission and oversee benefits realisation activities relating to performance workstreams.
Freedom to Act
Significant autonomy in the role and high levels of professional judgement required.
Exercise own judgement to allocate resources within the team to different workstreams.
Monitor and review workstream activity and exercise judgement regarding issues and risks to the SRO for Cancer and other members of the Cancer Board.
Deputise for the SRO for Cancer during periods as a regular feature of the role, including attendance and delegated decision rights at Board meetings and regional improvement forums.
Other relevant responsibilities appropriate to the grading and designation of the role.
Physical Effort
The job is mostly desk based with regular use of VDU.
There is a need to drive across the Greater Manchester footprint to ensure face to face engagement.
Mental Effort
Concentration will be required over long periods of time to review and interpret documents and reports and to analyse complex information from a number of different sources.
Ability to react promptly according to urgency of various interruptions in accordance with service needs.
Emotional Effort
Takes ownership of frequently difficult management decisions in relation to prioritisation of programmes which will involve employee relations.
Manages significant emotional strain and pressure associated with a high workload volume as a regular feature of the role.
Works to tight, competing deadlines and manages numerous projects on a concurrent basis.
Ability to influence and negotiate for project resources and priority setting with senior managers both internally and externally.
Work portfolio is frequently unplanned and subject to dynamic change at short-notice.
Working Conditions
Job is mainly desk based with regular use of VDU. Visits other sites across Greater Manchester and occasionally nationally as part of travel requirements within the role.
General
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties, but it aims to highlight the typical main responsibilities of the post. It may be reviewed from time to time to ensure that it relates to the job as then being performed, or to incorporate whatever changes are being proposed. This procedure is conducted in consultation with the post holder.
NHS Behaviours
Our behaviours: leading by example:
We prioritise patients in every decision we take.
We listen and learn.
We are evidence-based.
We are open and transparent.
We are inclusive.
We strive for improvement.
NHS Values
The values enshrined in the NHS Constitution underpin all that we do:
Respect and dignity.
Commitment to the quality of care.
Compassion.
Improving lives.
Working together for patients.
Everyone counts.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's degree or equivalent level of demonstrable experience in subjects relevant to this role
Desirable criteria
- Recognised project management qualification
- Recognised management qualification / affiliation
- Recognised coaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working at a senior level in a complex healthcare leadership and management role
- Experience of designing, developing and delivering complex projects and initiatives
- Specialist knowledge and experience in project management, financial management, performance management, staff management and development
- Proven abilities to deliver national operational performance standards
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development in these areas
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills - oral, written and presentation
- High level of skill and experience in active stakeholder engagement
- Ability to deliver results through a wide range of individuals and teams, many of whom will be outside the managerial control of the post-holder
- Proven ability to manage conflict and negotiate difficult issues with stakeholders, often in sensitive or challenging environments
- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise, plan and manage own time and that of others to meet deadlines
- Evidence of planning and successfully delivering large programmes and projects on time and to quality
- Demonstrated capability to plan over varying timeframes and the ability to be adaptable and responsive to changing needs and adjust plans and resource requirements as necessary
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues and produce succinct, clear advice for the Cancer Board and stakeholders
- Good understanding and proven experience of programme / project management, people management and programme governance at a senior level
- Strong strategic thinking, development and innovation skills and the ability to co create strategies and plans with stakeholders
- Ability to be innovative, design and introduce improvements and embed the resulting change, including in areas not under direct management control and requiring a very high level of influencing skill
- Ability to prioritise own work and that of the team and able to motivate and mobilise the activities of others
- Ability to manage budgets and to be innovative in seeking and securing funding for the Programme as required
Desirable criteria
- High level of political astuteness
- Experience of working at regional level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge of the national Cancer agenda and relevant policies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Greater Manchester Cancer ambitions
Values
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
- Acts with integrity, objectivity and sensitivity to a wide range of influences and situations
Other
Essential criteria
- Clear thinking and articulate with ability to deal with problems in calm manner
- Collaborative and collegiate style when working with others
- Self-motivated and competent working with a high degree of autonomy
The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.
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