Project Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Do you want to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Working in NHS England’s Cancer Programme, that’s just what you’ll do.

Working in the NHS Cancer Programme, you will help set the agenda for cancer care in England. Our goal is to diagnose cancer earlier, help more people survive it, and improve their quality of life and experience of care. We work with people affected by cancer, clinicians, charities, Regions, Cancer Alliances, and trusts, and develop national policy and strategy to transform services for people across the country.

Our work has been reshaping the experience of cancer patients across England and the NHS Long Term Plan gives us the chance to go even further. You will be instrumental in delivering our ambition to improve cancer outcomes.

The Cancer Programme Team takes its responsibility to promote equality and diversity seriously. We respect colleagues from different backgrounds and embrace different cultural preferences in everything we do.

We expect to shortlist and interview for this role in January 2025.

As a Project Manager for the Policy and Strategy team, you will work as part of an exciting, cross-cutting team within the NHS Cancer Programme. The Policy and Strategy team sets the overall direction for cancer strategy and policy across NHS England. We have a broad remit for strategic policy development and implementing key strategic projects to support our ambitions on improved outcomes, from activities to support workforce and capacity to developing and testing new interventions to help find more cancers at an early stage within primary care.

The postholder will play a key role in delivery of strategic policy projects across the Policy and Strategy team, supporting policy development and working with colleagues across the NHS, including Cancer Alliances, on a range of initiatives aimed at improving outcomes for people with cancer.

If you have strong project management skills and are looking for a role to develop your policy skills, working in a fast-paced environment at the heart of NHS policy and decision-making and have a strong commitment to diversity and equality, we would love to hear from you.

The NHS England Board Have Set Out The Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
  
  

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa James Job title: Senior Strategy Manager Email address: lisa.james12@nhs.net