Early Diagnosis and Primary Care Facilitators - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Greater Manchester Cancer is looking to establish a team of enthusiastic and committed Facilitators to work on an exciting and crucial agenda to support the continued development of early cancer diagnosis in Primary Care.

Greater Manchester Cancer (GM Cancer) is a venture that brings together patients, carers and other service users as well as NHS and academic institutions with the aim of securing world-class cancer outcomes and experience for our population.

GM Cancer is the cancer programme of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. Work to improve cancer services within Greater Manchester is being led by the Greater Manchester Cancer Board.

The NHS Long Term Plan includes an ambition to diagnose 75% of all cancers at stage 1 or 2. GM Cancer have an ambitious programme of work in place working across the GM system to achieve this ambition.

GM Cancer is seeking to appoint a team of five Facilitators who will have responsibility for supporting the planning, development and implementation of quality improvement projects in line with the overarching ambition outlined above.

This ambition is supported by GM Cancer's commitment to an extensive training and education programme.

Facilitators will, therefore, also be expected to support the identification of priorities for training and education and the subsequent delivery to Primary Care colleagues utilising established communication channels and prioritising engagement where this has been historically poor.

The post holders will join an established team hosted by and based at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.

Each Facilitator will be expected to work and travel within a designated sector of Greater Manchester working directly with Primary Care Networks (PCNs).

Support provided by the Facilitators will be prioritised through a needs-based and inequalities focused approach which they will oversee.

The successful applicant will have quality improvement, influencing, and excellent communication skills and will be expected to work collaboratively with a range of partners to deliver improvements in cancer outcomes and a reduction in health inequalities.

Successful applicants will also have demonstrable experience of implementing evidence based interventions and supporting the delivery of education and training to drive quality improvement in healthcare settings and be prepared to seek out and share best practice.

This will require a level of political awareness, personal influence and skill.
All posts are full-time, although flexible working will be considered. The contract will be until 31st March 2025 and secondment requests will be considered.

It is important that when required, the post holder is able to travel across Greater Manchester.

About The Christie NHS Foundation Trust & Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year.

We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.

Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance is one of 21 Cancer Alliances in England, operating as the cancer arm of the GM Integrated Care System.

From an HR perspective, the Cancer Alliance is hosted by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Set-up and organisation

Support PCNs, individually or as locality groupings to project manage and deliver specific quality improvement pieces of work as identified as joint priorities, including supporting the development, delivery and engagement by Primary Care with education, prioritising reducing cancer related health inequalities through prevention, and early diagnosis of cancer.
Work with Localities and PCNs to define the scope of the work, need / evidence for the work, resource requirements, monitoring and assurance functions. This will be achieved utilising recognised quality improvement methodologies and GM Cancer programme management documentation.
Coordinate, facilitate and support the administration of meetings to aid the delivery of quality improvement programmes and manage the follow up agreed actions with responsible group members, holding them to account for progress.
Arrange, support and encourage engagement with educational / engagement events where required by Primary Care colleagues and other stakeholders to suppor