Cancer Improvement Programme Manager

The Role

This role will be to establish, manage and coordinate the delivery of a programme of strategic development for cancer services across care settings with a collaboration of health, local authority and third sector. The post holder will have responsibility for a implementing a programme of continuous improvement of cancer services aligned to the NHS Lanarkshire Cancer Strategy. You will lead on a programme of improvement work to address performance and service issues to transform cancer services and after care within Lanarkshire in collaboration with partners from local authority and third sector. The post holder will advise and support local clinical management teams and service providers, enabling them to fully participate in a collaborative approach to the delivery and improvement of cancer services. Performance and associated key indicators will be monitored and evaluated by the post holder in order to identify when additional intervention and support is required to implement the NHSL Cancer Strategy. Devise, deliver and facilitate multi-agency and multi-professional workshops

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Graduate calibre with evidence of continued professional development. PG Qualification with 5 years senior experience in Management essential.
• NHS experience within Cancer services required with evidence of managing change within a complex organisation. Clinical Cancer experience required.
• Extensive experience of High Level Leadership and management of projects, a portfolio approach to working, experience of working with and influencing teams
• Able to forge positive relationships and work effectively with multi-professional teams and across organisational boundaries.
• Proven track record of working in a senior position with key stakeholder groups, across multi-professional groups and across statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
• Demonstrable Project Management skills with a proven track record of developing high level projects from inception and delivering to objectives within timescales.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and people skills, including facilitation.
• Understanding of the theory and practice of service improvement and patient process redesign methods and how to apply them in multi professional and partnership settings.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word/Excel/Access/PowerPoint/Outlook and Microsoft Project.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

It would be great if you also have

• PRINCE 2 qualification or equivalent
• Lean Change Agent training of ScIL training
• Evidence of experience of successful implementation of cancer strategy
• Experience of patient / public involvement in enhancing peoples’ experiences of cancer care.
• Demonstrable experience and success in influencing policy-makers, managers and practitioners to achieve service changes beneficial to population health.
• Experience of strategy development and implementation
• Knowledge of current initiatives and developments relevant to cancer
• Knowledge and experience of improving population health including health inequalities, cancer and issues relating to health improvement in Scotland
• Significant experience and knowledge of health service management including change management and service/workforce redesign acquired through training and experience
• Knowledge of planning, operational processes and systems
• Ability to think and plan strategically and creatively and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands.
• Ability to collaborate and constructively with internal and external partners to facilitate effective partnership working, such as third sector
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex data sets extracting key information and communicating this effectively
• High level Change Management skills including Improvement Methodology
• Ability to handle complex work without supervision
• Able to forge positive relationships and work effectively with multi-professional teams and across organisational
• boundaries
• Ability to work flexibly and as part of a team
• Effective communicator
• IT literate

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 12 months

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Cancer Services within University Hospital Monklands.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Mhairi Simpson, Nurse Consultant, Oncology on Mhairi.Simpson@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Gemma Irwin, Recruitment Administrator on Gemma.Irwin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

Occupational health services

Employee counselling services

Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

The Role

This role will be to establish, manage and coordinate the delivery of a programme of strategic development for cancer services across care settings with a collaboration of health, local authority and third sector. The post holder will have responsibility for a implementing a programme of continuous improvement of cancer services aligned to the NHS Lanarkshire Cancer Strategy. You will lead on a programme of improvement work to address performance and service issues to transform cancer services and after care within Lanarkshire in collaboration with partners from local authority and third sector. The post holder will advise and support local clinical management teams and service providers, enabling them to fully participate in a collaborative approach to the delivery and improvement of cancer services. Performance and associated key indicators will be monitored and evaluated by the post holder in order to identify when additional intervention and support is required to implement the NHSL Cancer Strategy. Devise, deliver and facilitate multi-agency and multi-professional workshops

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Graduate calibre with evidence of continued professional development. PG Qualification with 5 years senior experience in Management essential.
• NHS experience within Cancer services required with evidence of managing change within a complex organisation. Clinical Cancer experience required.
• Extensive experience of High Level Leadership and management of projects, a portfolio approach to working, experience of working with and influencing teams
• Able to forge positive relationships and work effectively with multi-professional teams and across organisational boundaries.
• Proven track record of working in a senior position with key stakeholder groups, across multi-professional groups and across statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
• Demonstrable Project Management skills with a proven track record of developing high level projects from inception and delivering to objectives within timescales.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and people skills, including facilitation.
• Understanding of the theory and practice of service improvement and patient process redesign methods and how to apply them in multi professional and partnership settings.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word/Excel/Access/PowerPoint/Outlook and Microsoft Project.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

It would be great if you also have

• PRINCE 2 qualification or equivalent
• Lean Change Agent training of ScIL training
• Evidence of experience of successful implementation of cancer strategy
• Experience of patient / public involvement in enhancing peoples’ experiences of cancer care.
• Demonstrable experience and success in influencing policy-makers, managers and practitioners to achieve service changes beneficial to population health.
• Experience of strategy development and implementation
• Knowledge of current initiatives and developments relevant to cancer
• Knowledge and experience of improving population health including health inequalities, cancer and issues relating to health improvement in Scotland
• Significant experience and knowledge of health service management including change management and service/workforce redesign acquired through training and experience
• Knowledge of planning, operational processes and systems
• Ability to think and plan strategically and creatively and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands.
• Ability to collaborate and constructively with internal and external partners to facilitate effective partnership working, such as third sector
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex data sets extracting key information and communicating this effectively
• High level Change Management skills including Improvement Methodology
• Ability to handle complex work without supervision
• Able to forge positive relationships and work effectively with multi-professional teams and across organisational
• boundaries
• Ability to work flexibly and as part of a team
• Effective communicator
• IT literate

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 12 months

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Cancer Services within University Hospital Monklands.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Mhairi Simpson, Nurse Consultant, Oncology on Mhairi.Simpson@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Gemma Irwin, Recruitment Administrator on Gemma.Irwin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

Occupational health services

Employee counselling services

Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. However, if there are a high level of interest in this position, we may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
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NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Right to Work within the UK

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.