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Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Attitude, aptitude
Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focus, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Attitude, aptitude
Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Skills, abilities and knowledge
Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Qualifications/training and professional development
Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Cancer Transformation Programme Manager across the three Acute Trusts within the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group. This new role is fixed term for 12 months only and would be suitable for secondment and flexible working. There would be an expectation to travel to all three Acute Trusts across the region as required. Noona is a digital platform designed to collect and manage Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (EPROs) for patients on an oncology pathway. It enables patients to remotely report symptoms, side effects and wellbeing, enhancing communication between patients and clinical teams, and enabling clinical teams to make assessments. The project will scope how the platform could be used most effectively. Some early suggestions are to enable assessment of patients before SACT appointments for to ascertain fitness to proceed, to enable patients undergoing Immunotherapy treatment to report any issues, and for assessment of patients being referred to a Late Effects clinic using a prepopulated questionnaire.
Interview date: 22 September 2026.
Main duties of the job
The key objectives of the programme are to:
- To enhance patient communication with the clinical team.
- To reduce unnecessary patient attendance at outpatient appointments
- To make patient pathways, and therefore the workforce, more efficient
- The post holder would be required to lead the rollout across NNUH, JPUH and QEH in a co-ordinated implementation plan, supported by clinical and operational colleagues.
The post holder must have a good understanding of digital infrastructures and project management skills; clinical skills are not a prerequisite, but the post holder must be able to interpret clinical pathways into operational processes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To support the development and delivery of the Noona E-Proms project across the three Acute Trusts; NNUH, JPUH and QEH
- To support the delivery group (Siemens Healthcare, NNUH, JPUH, QEH, Norfolk and Suffolk ICB, and East of England Cancer Alliance) to ensure the Oncology strategy is reflective of system priorities.
- To map the current oncology pathways within NNUH, JPUH and QEH
- To formulate a clear communication plan for the rollout of the programme
- To deliver training and education to key parties
- To report into the delivery group and action key enablers
- To deliver a comprehensive future view plan beyond the 12 months
- To deliver Standard Operational Policies, Educational resources and How To plans
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This advert is for Cancer Transformation Programme Manager with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Programme manager role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum (pro rata). The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment Opportunity). The application deadline is 15 Sep 2026.
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