Head of Planned Care – Cancer and Diagnostics

Are you an experienced health and care leader who enjoys working as part of a team and can bring people together? If so, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a Head of Cancer and Diagnostics to join our motivated team and lead the delivery of high-quality services across Derbyshire. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about improving health outcomes, reducing health inequalities and improving patient experience who has strong stakeholder engagement and management skills.

The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Director of Planned Care for delivery of a range of identified transformation programmes & priorities and commissioning duties to support achievement of our goals and provide excellent care to our patients.

The successful individual must have a good understanding of system commissioning, large-scale service change, transformation and programme management, strategy and system priorities and be able to flex in a system space of multiple organisations spanning traditional boundaries. You should have experience in leading and delivering service improvement and performance management.

You will be joining us at an exciting time as we progress areas of wider team development and new ways of working, in the content of the fundamental purpose of Integrated Care Boards.

The postholder will take responsibility for their own portfolio of elective care programmes of work, but also lead the team in successful delivery of the given priorities and programmes of work.

You will be expected to ensure compliance with standard Programme Management methodologies, system governance, reporting and risk processes, to deliver agreed key outcomes and objectives across a range of transformational programmes and projects, as well as taking on commissioning responsibilities for a portfolio of assigned services/specialties.

For both your own work and the activities of the elective care team you will be expected to ensure compliance with commissioning due diligence and best practice principles.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Monica McAlindon Job title: Associate Director of Planned Care Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07867 152890