Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Funded until the end of March 2025.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7483-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Weston Park Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/06/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Improvement Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
This role will be responsible for the facilitation of key improvement activities and projects across the outpatient pathways for Weston Park Cancer Centre. It will require close working with the MDT teams and the wider Network to enable the delivery of improvement activities and projects to enable continuous improvement.
The role will facilitate the development and redesign of services in line with local strategies and initiatives. It will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.
Main duties of the job
Project Management
Service Improvement
Partnership Working
Communication
Leadership
Business Development
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
All staff recruited post February 2020 are required and it is a condition of employment that they are also able, to undertake duties at any of the other sites where Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is responsible for delivering cancer treatment activity. It is anticipated that this may include the hospitals at Barnsley, Chesterfield, Rotherham, Doncaster as well as any other sites within the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Cancer Network.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 9 months due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nursing professional educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification to level 7 (or working towards) in relevant subject or demonstrable equivalent gained through a combination of short courses and experience or clinical experience and qualification
- Master’s level qualification.
- Qualification in either Service/Quality Improvement, Organisational Development or Project Management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of using quality improvement methods and techniques.
- Experience of working in a cancer outpatient setting.
- Experience of leading projects.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working on projects that deliver financial improvement.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with individuals on a one-to-one basis and with groups.
- Influencing skills with the ability to present to and engage a wide range of stakeholders in ideas and proposals.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to form positive relationships and coach proactively and cooperatively at all levels.
- Able to act on own initiative, judgement and to make decisions.
- Outcomes focused with strong drive and motivation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nikki Burkhill
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2265231
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