Personalised Cancer Care Project Manager

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cancer Services team at Whittington Health and play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering personalised cancer care, improving the experience, outcomes and quality of life of people living with and beyond cancer across both hospital and community settings.

The post holder will oversee the development, delivery and evaluation of PCC interventions, including Holistic Needs Assessments (HNAs), Personalised Care and Support Plans (PCSPs), End of Treatment Summaries (EOTS), Personalised Stratified Follow-Up (PSFU) pathways and Health and Wellbeing initiatives.

Operating within a project management framework, the post holder will lead service improvement initiatives. They will be responsible for improving PCC data quality and reporting, including submissions to COSD and North Central London Cancer Alliance performance dashboards.

The role will provide leadership and influence across the cancer workforce, supporting clinical teams to embed personalised care principles into routine practice.

The post holder will represent Whittington Health within local partnership programmes and contribute to wider neighbourhood health priorities.

If you are a motivated and enthusiastic individual with a can-do attitude, passionate about improving cancer services and making a real difference to the lives of people affected by cancer, we would be keen to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Main duties

Scope and map the current cancer workforce's ability to deliver personalised cancer care. Identify gaps within service provision and education needs of the team take responsibility for the upskilling and education of the team to enable the integrated delivery of personalised cancer care.

Engage and motivate colleagues aligned to the project to deliver its aims and objectives.

Work with the Trust to create and improve timely referral routes across pathways.

Where applicable, lead new or support existing projects to improve access to cancer rehabilitation, prehabilitation, physical activity and psychosocial support with the aim of improving experience and quality of life for people living with and beyond cancer.

Support expansion and improvement of personalised (stratified) follow-up including patient-initiated follow-up.

Represent the trust and its patients in neighbourhood health projects affecting personalised cancer care, ensuring the voice of the local people living with and beyond cancer is represented.

Lead projects supporting personalised cancer care involving local communities with an aim of reducing inequalities, improving patient experience and enhancing quality of life.

About us

We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.Our missionHelping local people live longer, healthier lives.Our visionProvide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.Our goalsWe have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.

• To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
• To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
• To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
• To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
• To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
• To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population

Job responsibilities

The post holder will represent Whittington Health within local partnership programmes and contribute to wider neighbourhood health priorities. They will play a key role in delivering sustainable improvements in patient experience, quality of life and outcomes for people affected by cancer, while supporting the future development and sustainability of personalised cancer care services.

Please see the Job Description attached.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of delivering complex whole system change projects
• Knowledge of the public sector and health service
• Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Experience of planning and coordinating projects in a complex and challenging environment
• Understanding of recent policy initiatives and developments in cancer care
• Understanding of the neighbourhood health agenda and community health initiatives

Desirable

• Insights and experience of commissioning processes
• Management of complex HR cases; capability, long term sickness

Education and qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate degree in either healthcare or project management or leadership/management
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• In depth knowledge of health care systems and the delivery of cancer services

Desirable

• Advanced communication skills or equivalent
• PRINCE 2 or other project management qualification
• Cancer care course

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Ability to plan over short medium- and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to a broad rand of stakeholders as required
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Line management, supervision and coaching/mentoring
• Leadership skills

Desirable

• In depth knowledge of patient experience and engagement
• Event management