Primary Care Quality Improvement Facilitator for Cancer

Job summary

This post holder will be working in conjunction the Awareness and Early Diagnosis Team of Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance which works across the cancer pathway and spans the whole ICS.

Main duties of the job

Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance have launched a new incentive scheme to support PCNs undertaking actions and improvements across their cancer activities. As one of our team of Primary Care Quality Improvement Facilitators for Cancer you will provide invaluable practical implementation support to PCNs to improve the quality of their services and work towards achieving cancer-related objectives. You will also provide a vital communications channel between primary care and the Alliance work programmes.

About us

Yorkshire Health Network (YHN) is a federation of all 16 GP practices within the Harrogate and Rural area of the Humber and North Yorkshire ICB (integrated Care Board).

Job responsibilities

• Build effective relationships with and actively engage Primary Care Networks and local cancer and public health stakeholders to raise awareness of the importance of early cancer diagnosis and influence the content of local delivery plans.
• Effectively manage ongoing relationships with multiple PCNs and practices across your locality to secure improvements in early cancer diagnosis.
• Lead or support workstreams to increase uptake of the three cancer screening programs, improve primary care referral practices and pathways in line with the PCN DES and regional plans - such as the Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance Cancer Incentive Scheme
• Assist PCNs with the analysis and interpretation of statistics relevant to prevention screening and early diagnosis.
• Share best practice tools and resources to support PCNs to adopt quality improvement interventions that will contribute to achieving earlier cancer diagnosis and better outcomes for patients.
• Support PCNs to develop early cancer diagnosis improvement plans in line with the PCN Cancer Direct Enhancement Scheme Invest and Impact Fund and other relevant contracts.
• Create and facilitate opportunities and mechanisms for PCNs to improve communications and networking between GP practices and PCNs - including joint planning where appropriate.
• Support and - or advise PCNs and GP practices to set up and implement early cancer diagnosis projects focused on screening and improving referral practice.
• Working with clinical leads to support PCNs to keep up to date with changes and the use of clinical referral pathways diagnostic and triage tests - such as Faecal Immunochemical Test.
• Develop plan co-ordinate and evaluate learning events for primary care professionals - non-clinical and clinical. To enhance knowledge of and interventions to improve cancer outcomes with a focus on early diagnosis screening and addressing health inequalities.
• Design deliver and evaluate bespoke training sessions through a range of methods including face to face remote and local on-line options at GP practice and PCN level.
• Work in partnership with primary and secondary care partners to support and promote more effective ways of working across the patient pathway.
• Contribute to the delivery of local improvement projects in partnership with NHS partner organisations, in line with Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance workplan.
• Keep up to date with policy, evidence and NHS/ public health cancer strategies, supporting the dissemination to local partner and primary care organisations in the area, as appropriate.
• Work flexibly and collaboratively through the region with the Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance Place Cancer Managers and other PCN Engagement roles to support early cancer diagnosis projects.
• Provide progress reports against the agreed operational plan and identified performance measures via quarterly reports for Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance in addition to other data intelligence and observations as required.
• Support PCNs and GP Practices to enhance their understanding and implementation of personalised care approaches to improve the quality and uptake of cancer care interventions.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to regularly travel within the region and to occasionally travel across the country.
• Ability to work flexible hours and out of hours as required.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in proposing changes in conjunction with working groups which have wider implications for performance and service policy.
• Experience of partnership working and the ability to develop sustainable relationships with key bodies and individuals.
• Experience in persuading stakeholders of the importance of projects including negotiating and motivating others and linking in with other initiatives.
• Experience in analysing - interpreting and communicating complex and sensitive facts and information about performance and change and presenting information to stakeholders.
• Experience of breaking down organisational barriers - managing conflicting opinions or demands to ensure appropriate outcomes for patients.
• Knowledge of the practical application of the principles of change management and workforce redesign.
• Knowledge of project management.

Desirable

• Have experience of working in areas of deprivation.
• Knowledge of community engagement.
• Experience of group work.
• Experience of working across various settings.
• Knowledge of Cancer support organisations available.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse and interpret information and to make judgements where there are conflicting views on the to support decisions on complex issues.
• Ability to disseminate information appropriately and to share knowledge and experience with other members of the team.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to persuade influence and motivate others.
• Ability to organise and evaluate data and audit own work area.
• Ability to analyse interpret and formally present in depth health information and to construct correspondence and reports for various audiences - demonstrating high levels of accuracy and presentation.
• Ability to use IT software to effectively collect and analyse data and to present - create reports - presentations it in a meaningful way.

Desirable

• Data outcome entry.
• Good networking skills.
• Ability to prepare creative material.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Qualifications in any of the following;
• Training / community engagement / health / behaviour change