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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Specific responsibilities include:
• Working collaboratively with regional and national stakeholders to lead transformation programmes across the GM system to support the delivery of national and local diagnostic strategies
• Leading the GM-wide multi-disciplinary diagnostic network Boards' programmes of work and project/programme managers.
• Co-ordinate and contribute to the GM Diagnostic Network system-wide programmes of work, including developing and managing programme and project plans, reporting progress, and undertaking risk and issue management to ensure effective and timely delivery of the NHSE directives and the GM Diagnostic delivery plan. Reporting to the Managing Director, Associate Director, the Diagnostic & Pharmacy Partnership Group and associated boards and committees as required. This requires considerable concentration for prolonged periods of time multiple times a week as a high workload volume and engagement is a regular feature of the role.
• Creation of complex bids for funding for GM system-wide adoption
• Directly line manage and provide support for the Programme and Project managers.
• Support the Boards and Clinical Reference Groups and Clinical Leads to effectively develop and progress the work programmes.
• Align and collaborate with the GM Diagnostic Network team for the cross-cutting elements of the GM Diagnostics delivery plan (matrix working and with interdependencies)
• Create reports and updates for the GM Diagnostic Network review/assurance system to ensure that any significant issues/risks are identified early, reported to the relevant body, and that mitigating actions are approved and actioned within the agreed timescale.
• Ensure that project management best practice is adhered to, with communication of the programmes /projects and their progress shared with the system-wide stakeholders.
• Maintain and update any programme risks within the GM Diagnostic Network risk register.
• Support the development of work programmes, taking responsibility for ensuring coherence across the individual programmes and projects, to progress these in accordance with respective and frequently tight timelines, with swift adaptation in light of emerging priorities.
• Ensure all reports to the Diagnostic & Pharmacy Partnership Group and other boards/committees are constructed in a consistent and clear manner.
• Ensure that work programmes and associated documentation are available for reference and audit by internal/external bodies.

2. Key Working Relationships
The post holder will be required to nurture relationships and have regular contact with local, regional, and national stakeholders, and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex, contentious, and confidential issues relating to NHSE priorities for diagnostic services.

The postholder will participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives to provide information, analytical advice, and expertise. They will:
• Ensure the evidence and data that supports any clinical redesign is collected and archived for future audit.
• Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and audiences, adapting communication methods to overcome any barriers to communication.
• Liaise with other managers, clinicians, and organisations to share programme and project management experience and best practice in the context of cancer delivery and outcomes.
• Engage with patient and public representatives to understand and improve experiences of care and promote their voice within the programmes of work.
• Forge positive working relationships within the GM Diagnostic Network and regionally/nationally, to support an effective matrix approach to achieving NHS objectives.

3. Functional Responsibilities

3.1 Operational Requirements
• Working within the NHSE objectives, to input into the GM Diagnostic strategy, implement and monitor.
• Develop, and evaluate best practice, to ensure this best practice is delivered across GM at organisational levels. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate, and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where necessary.
• Present complex information on all aspects of practice in a clear, understandable, and audience-appropriate manner to senior management and board level groups, locally, regionally, and nationally
• Personally lead, support, and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level staff from external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements
• Lead on the postholder's identified programmes including programme performance improvement measures and corrective actions, ensuring these have been agreed by all stakeholders.
• Responsible for proposing and/or implementing programmes of work and innovations within the diagnostics that improve GM-wide services.
• Manage and reconcile conflicting views, sometimes in a hostile/emotive environment, to ensure delivery of these programmes.
• Track, analyse and report progress to respective Boards, both internal and external to GM Diagnostic Network and GM-wide organisations.
• Provide co-ordination of, and participate in, relevant internal and external working groups and provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance as required on diagnostics services and delivery.
• Work with members of the GM Diagnostic Network teams to assure delivery of the GM Diagnostic plan, investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions. Ensure there is an audit trail for all changes in accordance with the agreed process.
• Lead on the risk and issues tracking for the postholders identified programmes of work ensuring regular review, issue resolution and/or escalation in a timely manner to meet GM Diagnostic plan requirements.
• Contribute to the response for any external audit, producing the documentary material and external briefing packs for reviewers.
• Devise, manage and update policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology, rules, standards, and thresholds. Disseminating these methodologies etc. to staff within the department and throughout the organisation
• Responsible for writing papers and reports, and presenting verbally at relevant groups/meeting, requiring concentration and analysis of complex information.
• Participation in local, regional, and national boards/groups/meetings requiring frequent extended concentration.

3.2 Financial and Physical Resources
• The post holder will have budgetary responsibility for a function (programme and projects) and the services provided within that function including evaluating the value for money of new contracts, monitoring the performance of existing providers and ensuring that provider performance aligns, and complies, with contractual terms and conditions.
• The postholder will be responsible for budgets associated with the management of the function.
• Reporting of spend for local, regional, and national financial returns.
• Accountable for authorising expenditure of pathway programmes of work in line with agreed delegated authorities/decision rights
• Provide regular reporting on resources and ongoing monitoring of implementation from a value for money perspective.
• Responsible for evaluation of project/programme delivery against the budget, through providing a high-quality system-wide project analysis.
• Ensure these budgets operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.

3.3 Staff Management
• Lead a team of programme/project managers, ensuring human resource functions and recruitment activity is performed.
• Line management responsibility for direct reports and through direct reports to other members of the team.
• To develop staff within the team to ensure they can deliver the new responsibilities of the NHS. Perform and ensure all appraisals are undertaken regularly, including career development, both directly as the line manager and across the postholder's team
• Update and maintain all direct report's staff records.
• Management of HR procedures such as capability and disciplinary procedures. Undertaking staff consultation and in consideration of welfare and safety matters, taking into account instructions and guidelines issued
• To lead on recruitment and performance manage the team to deliver projects/programmes within a matrix structure, within the challenging environment of healthcare across GM.

3.4 Information Management
• Devise and provide improvements to current management information, suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
• Analyse highly complex cancer information from a variety of sources, with data that may change rapidly and is often incomplete, from across the GM provider trusts and localities and nationally, including sources external to the NHS.
• Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to the relevant bodies and boards on agreed areas of work.
• Responsible for the collection and reporting on information of expenditure both within GM Diagnostic Network and across organisations participating in GM-wide projects led by the Network, including compliance and exception reporting.
3.5 Research and Development
• Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for research and development for diagnostic pathways.
• Draw from experience and expertise in other academic fields and industries, to ensure the system benefits from relevant innovations, and that innovations are realised by the stakeholder organisations.
• Ensure the evaluation of transformation projects and the sustainability of successful projects through business cases as required.

Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full list of responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Masters level qualification or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area of the GM Diagnostic Network
Masters level qualification in management studies or equivalent experience in management

Desirable criteria

Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g., Postgraduate Diploma) or equivalent (Prince 2 Practitioner)
Membership of a relevant professional body
Evidence of recent personal development at senior management level

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience working regionally to deliver transformational programmes of work related to one of the specialist areas of the GM Diagnostic Network
Experience of working in system-wide/multi-organisation programme management within a health care environment
Experience of leading projects and programmes in complex and challenging NHS service transformation environments
Significant experience of managing staff and teams, and dealing with a range of conflicting demands/competing stakeholders in a politically sensitive environment
Evidence of continuing personal development
Significant experience of identifying, managing, and reporting risks and issues
Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Board level
Experience of working in the NHS, Local Authority, voluntary or private sector at a senior level
Experience of formulating programme/project plans and outcome measures
Experience of working in a complex fast-moving organisation
Experience in working in a Healthcare environment Has financial management and accountability experience

Desirable criteria

Experience of leading and dealing positively with organisational change
Understanding of primary and secondary health care

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with proven ability to produce high quality outputs even when under pressure and working to tight deadlines.
Data analysis skills including capacity/demand analysis.
Ability to analyze, form a judgement and report and present on complex and sensitive data.
Ability to assess and interpret information to make a judgement.
Numerate and financially aware.
Strategic thinker with ability to have a corporate overview. Ability to balance strategic and operational management.
Ability to inspire confidence and respect of others through excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
Ability to prepare written reports and present verbal reports to a high standard.
Ability to effectively organise own workload and that of others.
Ability to establish sustainable working relationships internally and externally.
Advance problem-solving skills, innovative and creative thinker.
Able to demonstrate experience in providing expert advice at a senior and/or professional level
Ability to deal sensitively with conflict between corporate transformation and performance strategy and operational management issues.
Proven record of effective decision making
IT skills: Fully proficient in Word, Power point, Excel.

Desirable criteria

Ability to carry out procurements for highly detailed, high value contracts that require analysis, comparison and assessment.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

In-depth operational and programme knowledge across the NHS
Strong change, programme management and improvement network
Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools
Excellent understanding of the issues facing the NHS.

Valus

Essential criteria

Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours at all times

Persinal Attributes

Essential criteria

Tenacious, demonstrates high level of drive and enthusiasm to achieve goals and see things through.
Ability to work effectively in a highly complex and continually changing environment.
Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables.
Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals with a sense of balance.
High degree of political awareness
Displays innovative and lateral- thinking.
High degree of self-awareness
Exceptionally high levels of integrity and loyalty
Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions.
Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner.
Exceptionally motivated
Highly committed to public sector values
Professional attitude to work.
Leads by example.

Desirable criteria

Commitment to personal professional development.

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.

Application Information - If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, I regret that on this occasion your application will have been unsuccessful.

Sponsorship Information - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Pre-Employment Checks - To confirm your suitability for the role, we will carry out pre-employment checks in line with NHS Employment Check Standards. These include:

Identity verification
Right to work check
Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role, payment of this will be the applicants responsibility)
Professional registration and/or qualification check
Occupational health assessment
Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust will be required to provide their HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years employment. This information will used to validate employment history and references.

If you require sponsorship, we will assess your eligibility based on current government guidance. If the role is not eligible and you cannot demonstrate your right to work, your conditional offer may be withdrawn.

If You're Offered the Role - you will be agreeing to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and will form part of the recruitment process. In the event that you are successful following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

No Smoking Policy - You should be aware the Trust operates a No Smoking Policy and therefore employees are not permitted to smoke at work.

Additional Information - We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels. In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.

We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity in all our activities. We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in any of its forms, including slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour, and human trafficking. We are fully committed to acting ethically and with transparency in all our business dealings and relationships, and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our organisation or supply chains.

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

Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 758.9KB)
The Christie Values and Behaviours (PDF, 919.5KB)
Strategy Brochure (PDF, 1.0MB)
Travel to The Christie (PDF, 3.8MB)

Programme Director - GM Diagnostics Network

Programme Director - GM Diagnostics Network

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