Band 8a Macmillan Personalised Care Lead

The closing date is 6th Feb 2023

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) to appoint a Macmillan Personalised Care Lead. Following an 18 month scoping project we have secured 3 years of Macmillan funding to improve patient experience through the delivery of personalised care at UHB as indicated in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019).

Providing strategic and operational leadership across the Trust; the post holder will work with a new team consisting of a project manager, patient experience manager, clinical educators, clinical support workers and cancer information and support services to support our teams in the delivery of personalised care.

This role will allow the successful individual a fantastic opportunity to shape, deliver and embed long-term sustained improvements to advance the services we offer to our patients, and to play a key role in the on-going cancer transformation within the trust.

Macmillan funding has been secured for this post for 3 years to deliver this programme; it is intended that a further business case will be submitted to substantiate this post dependant on the evaluation and outcome of the programme. In the event that further funding beyond 3 years is not secured, the post-holder would be supported to find an alternative role within the Trust.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Candidates should have:

-Have a professional clinical background (nursing, allied health professional or equivalent) experience of cancer care

-An effective leadership style, able to build confidence / motivate staff

-The ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff in an open and transparent management style

-Experience in change management, project management methodologies

-Experience of managing projects and service transformation and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets

-Experience of networking and influencing across organisational boundaries and facilitating collaborative working

-Experience in leading and implementing safety / quality and experience initiatives and sustainable service Improvement

-In depth knowledge of national; regional cancer strategy and key objectives around the Living with & Beyond Cancer and Personalised Care Agenda

-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.

About us

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.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Registered Nurse on the NMC Register or HCPC Registered professional

* Educated to Masters level in a Health Related Subject or equivalent demonstrable experience supplemented by specialist training , experience or short courses or equivalent related to Cancer ad or personalised care.

* Qualification or equivalent experience in change management, project management methodologies

* Professional clinical background (nursing, allied health professional or equivalent) experience of cancer care

* Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to post

Desirable

* Post graduate Leadership training/ development course

Experience

Essential

* 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 of managing projects and service transformation and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets

* 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 environment

* Experience of networking and influencing across organisational boundaries and facilitating collaborative working

* Experienced and successful project manager who can demonstrate sustainable service or quality improvement achievement's in current or previous roles relative to the post applied for

* Experience in setting objectives/ KPI's

* Experience in leading and implementing safety / quality and experience initiatives and sustainable service Improvement

* 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

* In depth knowledge of national; regional cancer strategy and key objectives around the Living with & Beyond Cancer and Personalised Care Agenda

* Track record of success in the management of significant changes and innovation with demonstrable results.

* Knowledge of workforce re-design or service improvement methodology/tools

* Experience of using Microsoft Office/ 365 specifically Word, Excel and Teams

Desirable

* 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 and safety frameworks to support service and quality delivery , improvement and sustainability including learning from incidents or quality assurance audits/ National policy

Additional Criteria

Essential

* 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

Desirable

* Understanding of broad NHS roles and responsibilities, structures and processes.

* Advanced decision-making skills with the ability to think, plan and deliver strategically

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Shareen Juwle 

shareen.juwle2@uhb.nhs.uk 

07795315735 

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change 

Band

Band 8a 

Salary

£48526.00  to £54619.00 Yearly 

Contract

Permanent 

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working 

Reference number

304-1069281DH1 

Job locations

Trustwide 
Mindelsohn Way 
Birmingham 
West Midlands 
B15 2TH 

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