Lung Cancer Screening Operations Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is an exciting time to join the team, and we have rcently transitioned into an in-house delivery model and expand the service into our final area.

• Your primary responsibility will be Lead and manage the day-to-day operational management of the Lung Cancer screening (LCS) Programme, ensuring clear communication and robust implementation of policy, business objectives and agreed targets.
• You will need to use your high level of communication skills. You will be required to communicate complex patient pathways, protocol changes and service developments to staff and partners (internal and external) that may be different depending upon trust. You will also need to persuade and influence staff and partners to make the necessary changings.
• You will chair and lead the lung cancer screening delivery group, SWFT & GEH LCS Programme board and present at a variety of committees and boards when cover needed for the strategic manager.
• Manager external contracts with private providers for quality and performance escalating any issues to the LCS strategic lead.
• Liaising with CT mobile unit, Mobile Planning, Transport, Procurement, I.T., Finance local site providers and Radiographer departments overscheduling, locations, reporting and new contracts. This may involve site visits at short notice across the Coventry & Warwickshire footprint.
• Help to set up and account manage subsidiary services such as subcontracted Reporting and Artificial Intelligence software provision, Nurses, waste collection, water delivery and collection, security, and cleaning including managing the schedules of collections/deliveries
• Work with our performance and pathway manager, Lead nurse other stakeholders to find, assess and set up new mobile CT locations and nurse clinic rooms (when required)
• Work closely with our mobile CT logistics and maintenance private providers to ensure efficient service delivery, support with problem solving and planning so that CT down time is kept to a minimum.
• Manage the operational performance of the service to achieve delivery of national and local targets, the development and delivery of improvement plans.
• Work alongside the Performance & Pathway manager to ensure that the mobile CT is working at full capacity in order to remain cost effective and consider how LHC activity within the LCS team will need to reflect and adjust according to scanning capacity requirements.
• In liaison with the strategic lead agree and deliver against financial and activity profiles for the service, identify risks and implement and review risk reduction strategies.
• Working alongside the clinical nurse leads & Performance & pathway manager; Implement HR and governance strategies and policies within the specialty in order to achieve compliancy with Trust policies and procedures, best practice, relevant legislation, and regulatory provisions.
• Oversee Data returns this includes monthly national data submissions and the annual and quarterly audit submissions that are submitted to the national team in consultation with the Strategic lead. Analyse the results and put remedial plans in place to improve any quality or performance issues and escalate to the strategic lead any areas where the programme is not meeting the LCS quality assurance standards and or LCS protocol requirements.
• Review, interpret and develop plans to meet any policy changes.
• Lead the timely investigation and resolution of complaints, clinical adverse events, and untoward incidents, involving staff and/or patients, within the programme and implement strategies to reduce risk of reoccurrence and promote quality.
• Manage staff within the service, including regularly reviewing staffing levels and skill mix in collaboration with Strategic lead, Performance & Pathway manager and clinical nurse leads.
• Develop and promote integration between the representative organisations involved in the LUNG CANCER SCREENING programme in Coventry and Warwickshire, working with a wide range of clinical, and managerial health care professionals in order to achieve this.
• Be prepared to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire to ensure equity and quality of service provision and to problem solve issues arriving at scanning locations.
• Engage, communicate, and work directly with GP practices who have committed to participate in the delivery of the targeted lung screening.
• Engage and promote good uptake within health inequalities.
• You will work with several software systems the screening PAS, the trust RIS, EPR and Summerset where you will be required to monitor quality, performance and patient pathways and create and develop statistical reports.
• In the near future we will move to a patient level data set return to NHSE and you will play a key role in that development work and integration into this new reporting requirement including IG and technical requirements.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Secondment will be considered for internal candidates - If you are successful after interview, you must obtain approval from your current line manager to accept the offer.

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

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UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

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Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

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