Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Manager B8a
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Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Manager
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced operational leader to join the Surrey Bowel Cancer Screening Centre as our Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Manager.
About the Role
Working closely with the Clinical Director and partners across Surrey, West Sussex and North Hampshire, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for a high-performing regional screening programme, ensuring delivery of national standards, performance targets and high-quality patient care.
You will lead service development, workforce management, quality improvement, financial oversight and stakeholder engagement across multiple organisations, helping to shape the future of bowel cancer screening services and improve outcomes for patients.
Responsibilities
- Leadership: Provide leadership and direction to the service, taking the lead with the Clinical Director for developing the strategy for the screening centre in line with the requirements of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
- Service Development: Play a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation.
- Performance Management: Deliver all nationally set operational and clinical performance targets, waiting list and financial management.
- Quality Improvement: Continually improve the quality of services to patients and redesign services to meet best practice standards and improve efficiency and effectiveness within available resources.
- Staff Management: Responsible for the management of staff employed within the screening programme based at the host site, Royal Surrey County NHS Trust Hospital. All staff have honorary contracts to work on associate sites, Frimley Park Hospital, East Surrey Hospital, & St Peters Hospital. The management of those staff and key relationships on external sites is integral to the role and underpinned by robust SLAs.
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Requirements
We are seeking a dynamic leader with significant NHS management experience, strong partnership-working skills, and a track record of delivering service improvement, performance management and change programmes. Knowledge of screening services and clinical governance would be advantageous.
About Royal Surrey
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.
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We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.
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Application
Adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jennie Price
- Job title: Deputy Chief Operating Officer
- Email address: jenniferprice@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01483 571122
If you would like further information, or to have an informal conversation about the role, please contact Jennie Price at jenniferprice@nhs.net
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