# Cancer Psychology Project Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cancer-psychology-project-manager/770a5e89-4c88-41b5-ab8a-624110f85f84 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cancer-psychology-project-manager/770a5e89-4c88-41b5-ab8a-624110f85f84.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board - **Location:** Black Country Integrated Care Board; Birmingham & Solihull Integrated Care Board - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Project manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 to £56,515 a year - **Contract type:** Fixed-Term - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T11:51:04.409Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/D9118-26-0040 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/D9118-26-0040/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=D9118-26-0040 - **Employer website:** https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job summary The job holder will provide a project management resource to undertake a gap analysis (with reference to the West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) Mapping Report of March 2023) of current psychosocial provision for patients and staff across the cluster; develop an options appraisal for service delivery; and produce a series of recommendations for ICB Strategic Commissioning Leads and provider Cancer Services Teams for the future delivery model of psychology services across the BBCS Cluster. The post holder will also be expected to produce a Business Case to secure the resource for service delivery dependant on agreed service models across the cluster and dependant on maturity of services/ service provision. ### Main duties of the job - Managing the project, including developing, reviewing and managing the project plan; ensuring all project deliverables are on track. - Reporting project progress, including highlighting and reporting project risks and issues through the agreed governance structures within the provider Trusts, ICBs and WMCA. - Liaise with the appropriate provider Trust staff, ICB Strategic Commissioning leads, WMCA Senior Programme Manager for Treatment and Care, and other key stakeholders and partners as required. - Develop and embed a clear communication plan to ensure delivery of the project objectives. - Manage all project returns, including uploading of data and provide appropriate commissioning leads and WMCA with project delivery up-dates. - Oversight, management and delivery of all aspects of the project. - Ensuring that the work of the project reflects the system Cancer Strategies (aligning and interfacing with patient experience, digital/AI, workforce, health inequalities and rehabilitation). ### About us Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care System bring together the NHS, councils and voluntary sector to serve 2.7 million people. Our vision is to be the healthiest place to live and work, improving life chances and reducing inequalities. You will model system values, champion inclusion and actively address health inequalities, helping create an environment where everyone can thrive. In return, the Cluster offers a supportive, ambitious and inclusive environment with opportunities to develop and work across partners to deliver meaningful change. The ICB is committed to having a workforce which is representative of the population of Birmingham, the Black Country, and Solihull Cluster. Our current staffing profile demonstrates that we are not as representative as we would like to be at this level within the organisation. We would actively welcome applications from women and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds for this role. The ICB is registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We actively welcome applications from applicants with a disability and commit to shortlisting all such suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to participate in the recruitment process. ### Details - Date posted: 04 September 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 7 - Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year - Contract: Fixed term - Duration: 18 months - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: D9118-26-0040 - Job locations: Black Country Integrated Care Board, St. Peters Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SH, United Kingdom, Birmingham & Solihull Integrated Care Board, Suffolk Street Queensway, Birmingham, B1 1TT, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities The Job holder will be accountable for: - Managing the project, including developing, reviewing and managing the project plan; ensuring all project deliverables are on track. - Reporting project progress, including highlighting and reporting project risks and issues through the agreed governance structures within the provider Trusts, ICBs and WMCA. - Liaise with the appropriate provider Trust staff, ICB Strategic Commissioning leads, WMCA Senior Programme Manager for Treatment and Care, and other key stakeholders and partners as required. - Develop and embed a clear communication plan to ensure delivery of the project objectives. - Manage all project returns, including uploading of data and provide appropriate commissioning leads and WMCA with project delivery up-dates. - Oversight, management and delivery of all aspects of the project. - Ensuring that the work of the project reflects the system Cancer Strategies (aligning and interfacing with patient experience, digital/AI, workforce, health inequalities and rehabilitation). - The job description and person specification may be reviewed in accordance with the changing needs of the local and national cancer strategies and the cancer transformation programme. - The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The full job description and person specification is attached to the advert. ## Person Specification ### Autonomy **Essential** - Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables - Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales ### Experience **Essential** - Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project - Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment - Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments - Experience of managing risks and reporting - Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area - Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent - Evidence of continued professional development ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Experience of managing a team without direct line management - Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales - You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times. - You are respectful to others and listen to others. - You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role. - Professionalism and understanding difference is key. ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required - Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders - Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources. Requiring prolonged and frequent concentration - Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making - Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills - Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures - Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly - Putting the long-term health, social care and well-being needs - of the population first (system first) - Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve excellence in everything we do - Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes - Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times - Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective ### Equality, Diversity and Inclusion **Essential** - A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.