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Contract: 2 year Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 0.5 WTE
Place of work: Norwich, Norfolk with predominantly remote working. Ad hoc travel across Norfolk and West Suffolk will be required.
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 FTE
Interviews will take place w/c 7th September 2026.
Main duties of the job
The NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme is a national initiative designed to detect lung cancer at an earlier, more treatable stage in people at higher risk of developing the disease. Across Norfolk and West Suffolk, the programme brings together primary care, acute trusts, community services and system partners to deliver Lung Cancer Screening, improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a high profile transformation programme that is making a real difference to patients through earlier diagnosis, improved access to care and collaborative working across the Integrated Care System.
Job Purpose:
- Through excellent project management skills, ensure that Lung Cancer Screening projects are well organised and rigorously delivered at pace.
- Lead on the implementation of the Lung Cancer Screening programme within Norfolk and West Suffolk by supporting and informing the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
- The outcomes of the Lung Cancer Screening are key to further programme delivery, which will include establishing the Lung Cancer Screening pathway, which will run seamlessly from community to secondary care safety netting patients for follow up, it will include a robust diagnostic pathway establishing access to low dose CT.
- Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialties, functions and projects.
- Required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams.
- Exercise autonomy in proposing and progressing service change.
- Support the establishment and development of robust commissioning processes, working with providers that will ensure the delivery of high quality, accessible and cost-effective services to meet the diverse needs of the population and which contribute to the delivery of the key targets and priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
- The Lung Cancer Screening Senior Project Manager will provide system wide programme leadership to support the successful delivery of the NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme across Norfolk and West Suffolk. Working closely with the Norfolk and Suffolk ICB, Cancer Alliance, acute providers, primary care, community services and independent providers, the post holder will coordinate the implementation of national policy into a single, coherent local programme.
- The role will lead programme planning and delivery, develop and monitor implementation plans and trajectories, oversee governance and performance reporting, manage risks and issues, and support the development of robust diagnostic pathways and equitable population rollout. The post holder will support local transformation projects and work with commissioners and providers to secure value for money while improving service quality and patient outcomes. Using data and analysis to inform decision making, the post holder will provide assurance against national milestones, support financial oversight, and build effective relationships across partner organisations to deliver high quality, patient centred services. The role will also promote continuous improvement, innovation and the sharing of learning across the system.
Please contact us on [email protected] if you wish to see the full Job Description.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist area, acquired through post-graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters
- level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Experience of researching best practice interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
About us
Norfolk Primary Care Ltd is a Community Interest Company. It was established to:
- Support and strengthen primary care and to promote and assist practices to improve quality by working with and on behalf of primary care in Norfolk.
- Help with challenges identified by practices workload, GP recruitment, sharing best practice.
- Recognise the changing nature of primary care and assist to ensure that the right level of service is provided to address the needs of the local population.
- Provide benefit to patients of primary care, the clinicians and administrators who work in it and practice organisations in Norfolk.
- Work within health systems to provide patient care in innovative and solution-focused ways.
- We offer successful candidates a supportive working environment, competitive salary, excellent working conditions and the benefits of the NHS pension scheme. Other benefits include access to NHS discounts and discounted First Bus travel.
If you are interested in working in an organisation committed to a culture of professionalism, growth, integrity, positivity and kindness then we would love to hear from you.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Pay: £57,528.00-£64,750.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Norwich NR7 0WF
