Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Northern Cancer Alliance Delivery Lead
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Are you passionate about transforming cancer care and making a real impact for patients? The Northern Cancer Alliance is seeking a dynamic Delivery Lead (AFC Band 7) to drive innovation and value for money in planning, commissioning, and service provision. You'll collaborate with partners to design and improve services, manage Alliance projects, and champion the interests of patients and the public as part of a forward-thinking team.
This role requires strong project management skills, the ability to build relationships across organisations, and a background in management studies or equivalent experience. You'll implement best practice, oversee budgets and ensure compliance with standards while leading strategic initiatives within a complex healthcare environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery and coordination of designated projects and workstreams in line with national cancer priorities and local objectives.
- Be a champion for service delivery efficiency, innovation, and best practice across cancer pathways.
- Support evaluation, benefits realisation and continuous improvement activities associated with programme delivery.
- Day to day liaison with the many stakeholders involved in the NCA projects.
- Work autonomously and flexibly with the needs of the NCA.
- Evidencing effective involvement of the public at all levels of the NCA work plan.
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About the Role:
The role supports the Cancer Alliance business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service provision. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery. The role will work with partners in service design and improvement.
As a Delivery Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Northern Cancer Alliance to improve pathways of care for cancer patients.
The Role:
This is a North East and Cumbria-wide hybrid role, combining home working with attendance at our base sites (Northumbria House at Cobalt or North Ormesby Health Village), as well as attendance at provider and service partner sites across the North East and North Cumbria. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly, balancing home working with in-person engagement as required to support delivery of the programme.
About the Northern Cancer Alliance:
The Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA) represents an integration of all stakeholders in cancer services for its population of 3.1 million people. The NCA consists of statutory and non-statutory bodies but is not a statutory organisation in its own right.
The NCA adopts a whole-population, whole-pathway approach to addressing the ambitions of the Long Term Plan for Cancer. Working across its geographical footprint to transform services and care, reducing variation in the availability of good care and the outcomes of treatment while aiming to deliver continuous improvement in patient experience, and reductions in inequality of access.
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The NCA recognises the value of meaningful public involvement and acknowledges the interdependency between patient safety, clinical effectiveness and the patient experience within cancer care and treatment services. The Alliance is fully committed to the involvement of the public in all aspects of its work and embedding a culture where involvement is part of “usual business”.
In order to deliver its ambitions, the NCA Team will be distributed across its footprint and encompass a central core Alliance team to drive forward the development and delivery of the Delivery Plan, along with resources within local ICB footprint areas to drive delivery at a local level.
Application:
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Contact:
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dawn Chaplin
- Job title: Programme Manager
- Email address: Dawn.Chaplin5@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07880 864393
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