Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research. We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS. Job overview The South East London Cancer Alliance (SELCA) is looking to appoint an Assistant Project Manager to support the development and delivery of key projects within the Early Diagnosis Programme. The role will be primarily responsible for supporting the delivery of the South East London Community Pharmacy Pilot working across both Primary and Secondary Care. Where required, there will be the opportunity to support additional projects within the Early Diagnosis Programme, which is likely to include Targeted Lung Health Checks (TLHC). Main duties of the job The post holder will join the SELCA Early Diagnosis Programme team supporting the delivery of transformational change, focussing on workstreams which aim to increase the earlier detection of cancer and improve the quality, outcomes and experience of people presenting to and accessing cancer services in South East London, including addressing health inequalities. The primary responsibility of the post-holder, will be to support the delivery of the Community Pharmacy Pilot, which sits within the SELCA Early Diagnosis Programme of work. The pilot aims to evaluate the opportunity for earlier cancer diagnosis through direct referrals from Registered Pharmacists to Secondary Care. This project will contribute to a national pilot, which includes a number of projects across the country. The ability to work in a cross-cutting multi-organisational setting to facilitate organisational and service change is vital to the success of this role. In addition it is essential that the post holder is able to think, act and work flexibly whilst maintaining a clear view of overall priorities. The role will be based in the SELCA Team’s SE London office (Great Dover Street), but will be expected to travel to trusts or meetings within SEL as required. The job holder will be able to work from home for a proportion of time, and this will be agreed on a flexible basis. Working for our organisation South East London Cancer Alliance is one of 20 national Cancer Alliances in England and provides clinical, operational and transformational leadership to our local cancer system spanning across all 6 boroughs of South East London Integrated Care System. Our key members include: SEL ICB Primary care South East London Accountable Cancer Network (SEL ACN – the provider network) Patient/public representatives Charity representatives The SELCA vision is to provide the very best in cancer service to our patients by improving access, clinical outcomes, patient experience and quality of life for the population of SE London based upon national and international standards and evidence. SELCA works to strengthen collaborative working to: Share learning Develop a unified vision for cancer services in SE London Establish consistency of standards for pathway management, clinical protocols and provision of cancer treatments Reduce unwarranted variation and address health inequalities Optimise use of diagnostic capacity across the system Improve patient engagement and experience The SELCA Early Diagnosis Programme focusses on workstreams, which support the national ambition of 75% of cancers being diagnosed at Stage 1 or 2 by 2028. The key programme areas include a focus on increasing the uptake of cancer screening, raising public awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and improving primary care referral practice. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Project Management · Support the development of project plans and the delivery of agreed milestones and objectives. · Provide project management expertise to the individuals in the project team and ensure that the leads have clear responsibilities, priorities, timescales and track delivery. · Organise project meetings, ensuring that regular meetings are established, reports are produced and disseminated in a timely way and actions are followed up. · Lead service level workshops with admin, management and clinical teams. Produce presentation material and follow up information to introduce change projects and delivery plans. · Communicate information on the delivery progress of the project(s) to key stakeholders as required. · Provide scheduled highlight and exception reports per project, tracking milestones, for circulation to more senior project leads · Identify risks and support actions to mitigate these in order to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality. · Use appropriate project management practices in order to deliver the project. · Organise and monitor project resources to ensure their effective use while delivering against agreed objectives. · Co-ordinate minutes, agendas and papers for distribution in preparation for meetings, ensuring this is done in a timely manner. · Support evaluation and audit of projects across sites and organisations. Financial management · Support the management of contracts, specifications for tenders and awarding of new contracts as required by the senior programme manager. · Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage as required by the senior programme manager. · Support the commissioning and procurement of products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the project. Staff and stakeholder management · Support engagement plans for project to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project. · Support strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians. · Support delivery plans and ensure these are regularly updated for all projects. · Provide leadership to the project team, assigning responsibility for individual pieces of work, providing day to day technical support and balancing the workloads of individual team. · Support specific project management training and model practices to both internal staff members and external stakeholders and partners. Information management · Monitor and maintain project information management systems · Maintain data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data. · Maintain databases required by the project. · Interpret policies and protocols to support the project that are consistent with Trust standards. Strategy, change and service improvement · Support the development of a project strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice. · Manager test and review of new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment. · Support innovative methods to gain patient and public involvement to inform service direction, improvement, user satisfaction and as a tool for performance management. · Regular horizon scanning of best practice and ways of working within the sector and within project management. Personal Development · Maintain up to date knowledge of a range of skills including service improvement techniques and be responsible for developing and maintaining own CPD programme. Research and Development · Undertake primary and secondary research, audits and evaluations as required. General · Autonomy for specific areas of the programme, to assess the impact of change and make decisions, balancing risks and priorities · Provide advice to the Senior Programme Manager. · Proactive in identifying and addressing issues which are significant within and across directorates. Person specification Qualifications / Education Essential criteria Educated to masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience. Formal qualification in Project management (e.g.PRINCE 2) at practitioner level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience. Previous Experience Essential criteria Evidence of managing successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures. Project management experience in managing specific services including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multi-professional environment. Skills / Knowledge / Ability Essential criteria Knowledge of operations and / or project management methodologies and techniques. Understanding and track record of successful change and project management. Effective people and project management skills. Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills. Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively. Additional Criteria Essential criteria A commitment to partnership working, inclusion of a diverse workforce and service integration. Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Flexible working We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process. Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis. Please apply for this post by clicking "Apply Online Now." Further details / informal visits contact Name Mrs Samantha Lewis Job title Acting Senior Programme Manager - Early Diagnosis Email address [email protected]