Project Manager

at  The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance leads the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan for cancer across our local system. The Cancer Alliance (CA) provides system oversight and co-ordination for cancer services through collaboration with partners with the aims of improving outcomes for patients and improving performance against key operational standards.
Working within Operational Performance, the post holder will provide leadership and high level project management skills to deliver projects aimed at improving Cancer Pathways, and Cancer Waiting Times.
The role will require extensive programme management skills and close working with external partners including hospital providers, locality teams, patients and carers to deliver the programme objectives. This requires a level of political awareness, personal influence and skill.
The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance leads the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer across our local system. The Cancer Alliance (CA) provides system oversight and co-ordination for cancer services through collaboration with partners with the aims of improving outcomes for patients and improving performance against key operational standards.
The Project Manager will provide leadership and high level project management skills to enable system wide change to support delivery of CA objectives and priorities identified within NHS England‘s Long Term Plan and the local cancer delivery plan. The breadth of the CA programme covers the whole pathway including screening and early diagnosis, personalised care and sustainable operational performance.
The Project Manager will be responsible for the development, management and implementation of key projects across organisations in all sectors across Greater Manchester (GM) and East Cheshire. The role will require extensive project management skills and close working with external partners including providers, commissioners, patients and carers to deliver programme objectives in accordance with the aims and ambitions of the CA. This requires a level of political awareness, personal influence and skill.
The post holder will represent the CA in various GM wide forums. The post holder will work with colleagues at all levels including senior clinicians, executives, project managers and teams across Greater Manchester/East Cheshire and act in an autonomous capacity.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

LEAD THE ARRANGEMENT OF AN ANNUAL STAKEHOLDER EVENTS:

an annual engagement event open to the whole of Manchester Cancer and beyond to allow Project Boards to account for its progress against its work programme objectives and to obtain input and feedback from local professionals and the public
Facilitate full and active patient participation in the work of the Project Boards
Build relationships across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire, including primary, secondary and community care as well as public & patient engagement
Communication and support
Be the first point of contact for the Clinical Leads when seeking managerial advice or support
Act as a conduit between Clinical Lead and the Greater Manchester Cancer core team
Lead the development of innovative proposals for pathway change and improvement
Challenge Clinical Leads and the Project Boards if they exhibit a lack of ambition or consider objectives that do not contribute towards those of the GM Cancer plan
Regularly update Greater Manchester Cancer senior management team with project developments and identify where support or challenge is needed
Create reports and papers to update the Greater Manchester Cancer Board on project developments and to seek approval for recommended action
Data and information
Research background data and literature from national and international sources
Collate data and literature into concise reports and tools and present to the Clinical Lead, making clear recommendations for action
Analyse cancer data and intelligence to identify trends, key messages and opportunities to improve patient outcomes and experience
Lead the Project Boards in the collation and presentation of local system-wide audit data
Planning and reporting
Develop and manage an annual work programme with the Clinical Leads ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads
Ensure that the work plan reflects, and contributes towards the achievement of, the wider Greater Manchester Cancer plan, goal and objectives of improved clinical care and patient experience
Lead the definition of outcome measures that can be monitored during the course of the programme
Track progress against these outcome measures and provide progress reports to GM Cancer
Develop and maintain a risk register for the Project Board objectives and annual work plan, reporting risks and issues to the Clinical Lead according to a risk assessment framework
Write an annual report on progress in achieving the year’s objectives, the challenges faced during the year, and the priorities for the next year
Actively contribute to any provider service reviews as require

• Oversight and co-ordination of the CA transformation projects
• Line management of project team members
• Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale transformation projects
• Setting up and planning of the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function, project teams, project documentation using the CA programme management documentation and recognised project management methodologies
• Identifying resources to enable project delivery and assuring delivery on time and to budget
• Project reporting compliant with the CA programme governance framework
• Identifying and managing the risks associated with each project
• Maintaining knowledge of local, regional and national projects that are current and pending
• Providing expert project management advice and support to other staff and teams within the CA and partner organisations.
  Leadership and expertise
  Act as a genuine and credible manager and leader for projects.
  Act as a subject matter expert for the scope of projects
  Exert influence upon senior clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure that project objectives remain a priority in their own work programmes
  Act as a local source of expertise about projects and all of the resources that are available to support those seeking to improve services
  Remain up to date with developments and disseminate these developments to the appropriate audience
  Set-up and organisation
  Lead the setting up of Project Boards, ensuring full representation from all key partners (including patients) and relevant stakeholders
  Manage the administration of Project Board meetings
  Oversee the preparation of agendas, papers and minutes for the Project Board meetings/Pathway Boards and the follow up agreed actions with responsible group members, holding them to account for lack of progress