Macmillan Cancer Alliance Delivery Manager (NSO & Urgent Cancer Care)

Macmillan Cancer Alliance Delivery Manager (NSO & Urgent Cancer Care)

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Admin Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 18 months (Hybrid Worker) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 319-8364976VD

Site Northumbria House or North Ormesby Health Village Town Cobalt Business Park or North Ormesby Health Village Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

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Job overview

The postholder will support the delivery of the Non‑Surgical Oncology (NSO) and Urgent Cancer Care (UCC) work programme within the Northern Cancer Alliance. To make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes and drive service improvement across urgent & non‑surgical oncology pathways at a system level.

The post requires strong, autonomous project management skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships across multiple organisations. Management of a portfolio of work, under the oversight of the Programme Manager, and will work collaboratively with clinical and operational experts to develop, implement, and embed best practice whilst ensuring relevant standards and compliance requirements are met. The role requires confidence in fostering strong professional relationships and collaboration without the need for daily on‑site or office‑based contact, using a range of communication and engagement approaches to maintain connection and momentum across geographically dispersed teams.

This is a 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.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Macmillan Cancer Alliance Delivery Manager (NSO and Urgent Cancer Care) includes the delivery and continuous improvement of cancer care initiatives across the Northern Cancer Alliance system, with a particular focus on both Acute Oncology Services (AOS) and urgent cancer care (UCC). This role involves coordinating multidisciplinary teams to ensure best practice in the rapid assessment and management of patients presenting with acute oncology complications or requiring urgent cancer interventions as per the agreed model of care. Additional responsibilities include leading projects, driving service transformation, supporting clinical teams, and upholding the highest standards of patient care in accordance with organisational objectives and national guidelines.

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.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Cancer Alliance represents an integration of all stakeholdersin cancer services for its population of 3.1 million people. The NorthernCancer Alliance consists of statutory and non-statutory bodies but is not astatutory organisation in its own right.

The Northern Cancer Alliance will adopt a whole-population, whole-pathway approach to addressing the ambitions of the Cancer Strategy. Itwill work across its geographical footprint to transform services and care,reducing variation in the availability of good care and the outcomes oftreatment while aiming to deliver continuous improvement in patientexperience, and reductions in inequality of access.

The Northern Cancer Alliance recognises the value of meaningful publicinvolvement and acknowledges the interdependency between patientsafety, clinical effectiveness and the patient experience within cancer careand treatment services. The Alliance is fully committed to the involvementof the public in all aspects of its work and embedding a culture whereinvolvement is part of “usual business”.

In order to deliver its ambitions, the Northern Cancer Alliance Team will bedistributed across its footprint and encompass a central Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Support the continued development of the Alliance and deliver an agreed work plan.

Support the Programme Manager to deliver the Non-surgical Oncology (NSO) and Urgent Cancer Care (UCC) work plan/programme. This includes but is not limited to:

• Deliver the Acute Oncology Service/Out Of Hours (AOS/OOH) system wide agreed model.
• Support with delivery of the wider Non-surgical Oncology (NSO) and Urgent Cancer Care (UCC) programmes. These projects support the delivery of the high-level priorities within the NCA strategy and workplan to reduce treatment variation.
• Report project progress via regular 1:1s with the Programme Manager and via the NCA's governance processes as required. You may also be required to report progress into the NCA Lead Cancer Nurse.
• Ensure delivery focus is maintained by the project team with clearly defined objectives, roles, and responsibilities, and detailed and regularly maintained plans. The delivery team is based in different organisations across the Cancer Alliance footprint and could refer to individuals in organisations rather than a traditional team setting.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Member of relevant professional body

Experience

• Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Cancer, clinical pathways, communications, involvement, engagement, and project management.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Comprehensive experience of project principles, techniques, and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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