REGIONAL LEAD CANCER CLINICIAN west of scotland cancer network
CANDIDATES OWN EMPLOYING BOARD
nhsgg&c, nhs AYRSHIRE & arran, nhs forth valley, nhs lanarkshire
INFORMATION PACK
REF: 43837D
cLOSING DATE: 26th august 2016
SUMMARY INFORMATION RELATING TO THIS POSITION
Post: regional lead cancer clinician
west of scotland cancer network (WoSCAN)
BASE: candidates own employing board, nhs greater glasgow & CLYDE, ayshire & ARRAN, nhs FORTH VALLEY AND NHS LANARKSHIRE
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Regional Lead Cancer Clinician for the West of Scotland Cancer Network (WoSCAN).
Applicants will be experienced clinical leaders and managers, with a minimum of 5 years experience as a senior clinician/clinical manager, and currently practicing in the west of Scotland. Successful candidates will be experienced in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and direction and translation into successful outcomes.
As Regional Lead Cancer Clinician you will play a full part in the work of the Regional Cancer Network and share corporate responsibility for the decisions of the Regional Cancer Advisory Group (RCAG). You will also provide advice to the RCAG Chair (Board Chief Executive) on professional issues and lead clinical collaboration within the Network and across west of Scotland NHS Board boundaries, in partnership with other clinicians.
As Regional Lead Cancer Clinician you will provide clinical leadership for the Network; be responsible for developing the regional cancer service strategy and identifying and assessing the clinical implications of the strategy for the region; assuring clinical quality and service performance through clinical audit; driving continuous service improvement; governance and professional conduct; and Lead Clinician MCN/consultant appraisal. You will also be responsible and accountable for leading the development of WoSCAN, formulating a robust business plan that underpins the delivery of strategic organisational objectives, and ensuring performance achievement of services provided by the Network.
As Regional Lead Cancer Clinician you will contribute to the development and delivery of the wider cancer agenda, and the development and successful delivery of other related national strategies and programmes of work. You will be a member of the Scottish Cancer Taskforce.
Applicants will command the respect of Network members and demonstrate commitment to the development and role of Cancer Networks and MCNs in delivering improvements in cancer care across the region. The ability to work across traditional Health Board boundaries and organisations is essential as is the ability to manage change within a complex environment.
Applications, in the form of curriculum vitae with full supporting statement and documented evidence of support from senior manager/Medical Director of employing authority should be forwarded to:
Mary Shepherd
Recruitment Services
Modular Building,1st floor
Gartnavel Royal Hospital
1055 Great Western Road
Glasgow G12 0XH
Email:
Telephone: 0141 278 2647
For Informal enquiries please contact:
Mr Robert Calderwood
Chair, Regional Cancer Advisory Group (RCAG)
Chief Executive, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Telephone: 0141 201 4642
or
Dr Hilary Dobson
Regional Lead Cancer Clinician, WoSCAN
Clinical Director, WoS Breast Screening Service
Telephone: 0141 800 8826
Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 26th August 2016
Interviews will be held onThursday 29th September 2016 (a.m.)
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West of Scotland Cancer Network
Chair of Regional Cancer Advisory Group
(Chief Executive, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde)
West of Scotland Cancer Network (WoSCAN), hosted by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, on behalf of West of Scotland NHS Boards
Corporate Planning and Policy
3 sessions per week
43837D
July 2016
JOB PURPOSE
RegionalAs Regional Lead Cancer Clinician the post holder will play a full part in the work of the Regional Cancer Network and share corporate responsibility for the decisions of the Regional Cancer Advisory Group (RCAG).
The Regional Lead Cancer Clinician will provide advice to the RCAG Chair (Board Chief Executive) on professional issues and will lead clinical collaboration within the Network and across West of Scotland NHS Board boundaries, in partnership with other clinicians.
The post holder and the Regional Manager (Cancer) are the primary representatives of WoSCAN in its interface with territorial NHS Boards, care providers, including local authorities and third sector organisations, and other key stakeholders with whom very close liaison is required to deliver common purposes and goals.
The remit of the postholder includes: the provision of clinical leadership for the Network; development of the regional cancer service work plan and identifying and assessing the clinical implications of the work plan for the region; assuring clinical quality and service performance through clinical audit; driving continuous service improvement; governance and professional conduct; and Lead Clinician MCN/consultant appraisal.
The post holder and Regional Manager (Cancer) are responsible and accountable for leading the development of the West of Scotland Cancer Network (WoSCAN), formulating a robust work plan that underpins the delivery of strategic organisational objectives, and ensuring performance achievement of services provided by the Network. This includes full operational management accountability for WoSCAN, including Network staff, and 10 West of Scotland Regional MCNs, spanning 4 NHS Boards (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Forth Valley).
The post holder will lead development and delivery of a complex regional work programme, promoting and driving service improvement and change in order to deliver the standards of care laid down in various national clinical guidelines and policies through regional planning, service redesign and formulating robust prioritised business cases.
National
The Regional Lead Cancer Clinician is expected to contribute to the development and delivery of the wider cancer agenda, and to work with the Executive Directors in the Scottish Government Health Department, in each of the four West of Scotland NHS Boards, and other NHS, statutory and voluntary sector agencies to ensure effective clinical and organisational collaboration and service delivery both within and across the region.
The post holder will actively contribute to the development and successful delivery of other related national strategies and programmes of work including, for example, Detect Cancer Early, Quality, and Transforming Care After Treatment, ensuring that these consider and take account of both the needs of patients and the service.
The post holder may be invited to lead delegated national workstreams, as agreed by the Scottish Cancer Taskforce and as a member of that body.
DIMENSIONS
Regional
The health care challenge in the West of Scotland is considerable. Most of the deprived communities in Scotland (and in the UK as a whole) exist within the Network’s boundaries. The West of Scotland Cancer Network serves a population of 2,516,142 people (49% of the Scottish population) where 1 in 3 people will get cancer and 1 in 4 will die from cancer. Other significant healthcare issues such as co morbidities (e.g. coronary heart disease) and lifestyle factors (e.g. smoking and diet) of its local population compound this healthcare challenge.
The Network works closely with a diverse range of people and organisations, statutory and voluntary, to deliver effective and efficient services, tackling inequalities, driving up standards of care and improving outcomes. This includes:
- Patients, carers, and their families
- All staff involved in cancer care
- NHS Boards & Local Authorities
- National bodies including Scottish Government Health Department and the Scottish Parliament, plus key organisations such as Healthcare Improvement Scotland, NHS Education Scotland, the national Information and Statistics Division, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, Royal Colleges, professional groups and many others.
- Third sector partner organisations e.g. Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Breast Cancer Care and the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care.
The RCAG Executive provides high-level strategic guidance to constituent NHS Boards and the Regional Planning Group; leads the planning of regional cancer services, ensuring a coherent and equitable approach that takes account of local, regional and national priorities; progresses work on regional priority issues; agrees and reviews annual work programmes with regional MCNs and specialty networks/services; reviews clinical audit data for different specialties, assuring the quality of cancer care provision across the region, reporting directly to Board Chief Executives; and ensures adequate two-way communication and accountability between MCNs, RCAG, NHS Boards and the Regional Planning Group.
Membership includes: Designated Chair (NHS Board Chief Executive); Regional Lead Cancer Clinician (this post); Regional Manager (Cancer), Senior Operational General Managers and Cancer Clinical Leads from each of the 4 West of Scotland NHS Board areas and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre; Director of Regional Planning; MCN Lead Clinicians; and service user representatives.
The delivery of clinical care throughout the West of Scotland is driven by ten region-wide MCNs (detailed below). Each MCN is responsible to the RCAG for their activities and has been developed in line with the guidance noted below. Individual MCN Boards (involving approx. 10-12 senior clinicians, managers and patient/carer representatives) meet every 4 months.
- Breast
- Colorectal
- Lung
- Urology
- Head & Neck
- Haemato-oncology
- Skin
- Primary Care
- Upper Gastrointestinal
- Gynaecological Oncology
Regional MCNs are underpinned by a number of formalised regional specialty networks/regional groups (involving approx. 10-15 senior clinicians, managers and patient/carer representatives quarterly) that span MCNs, for example: Pharmacy, Nursing, and the Scottish Cancer Research Network.
Work identified by the RCAG is also progressed via short life working groups, for example the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Future Service Delivery Group.
National
The Scottish Cancer Taskforce drives the cancer strategy of NHS Scotland and has a significant bearing on how the NHS configures and invests in cancer care. Taskforce sub-groups and their respective work programmes are designed to support NHS Scotland in the delivery of sustainable best practice and improvement.
The post holder together with the Regional Manager (Cancer) is the primary representative of WoSCAN and West of Scotland NHS Boards on the Scottish Cancer Taskforce and actively participates in the work of the Taskforce and its sub groups.
National Services Scotland (NSS) commission services that are best provided on a national basis. Where such services are provided from a number of sites national MCNs have been commissioned. The 3 national adult cancer MCNs are hosted and managed by WoSCAN on behalf of NSS (i.e. neuro-oncology, hepatobiliary cancers and bone and soft tissue sarcomas).
ORGANISATIONAL POSITION
There is a very complex set of relationships underpinning the Network and regional/national working that is difficult to represent diagrammatically, and by necessity not all details are included here.
ROLE OF THE DEPARTMENT
The remit of the West of Scotland Cancer Network is such that the Network must:
- Operate within the context of Scottish Executive Health Department guidance on managed clinical networks (NHS MEL (1999) 10 and NHS HDL (2002) 69 and (2007) 21.
- Demonstrate compliance with NHS HDL (2001) 71, “Regional Cancer Advisory Groups” (RCAGs)
- Ensure appropriate links with generic regional planning structures as per NHS HDL (2002) 10 accepting that regional cancer networks are recognised as the vehicles for planning and investment in cancer services.
The Regional Cancer Network is responsible for driving and enabling the improvement of cancer-related services through development of regional and national cancer MCNs, ensuring that national and local standards are met, that clinical practice is developed consistently and that cancer services are delivered by means of agreed protocols backed up by sustainable tertiary services.
In addition:
- The West of Scotland Cancer Network, through delegated responsibility from the Regional Planning Group, ensures that:
-Cancer services, which require a population in excess of the average Board population (c400,000) to ensure clinical sustainability, are planned and delivered appropriately.
-Robust business cases are developed to underpin investment in regional cancer services, ensuring value for money and benefits realisation.
-The highest possible standard of cancer care, which can be provided within available resources, is available to all residents in the West of Scotland.
-The particular geographic challenges to the delivery of safe and effective cancer care within the region are addressed.
- The West of Scotland Cancer Network, through delegated responsibility from National Services Scotland, is responsible for the ongoing development and management of 3 national adult cancer MCNs. National MCNs require to ensure that:
-The highest possible standard of cancer care, which can be provided within available resources, is available to all Scottish residents. This necessitates coordinating and managing national multidisciplinary team meetings and ensuring robust clinical audit processes are in place, including data collection, analysis and reporting within an agreed national governance framework.
KEY RESULT AREAS
- Fulfill statutory and corporate responsibilities as an Executive Clinical Lead of the Network and ensure that the Network adheres to appropriate policy and practices across all activities.
- Take shared corporate responsibility in the shaping and delivery of the Network’s strategic direction and the development of the Network culture.
- Develop and maintain effective governance through clinical audit and performance review, which will ensure that the Network places patient safety at the heart of its activity, and that systems and processes are integrated into the fabric of day to day Network activity and service provision.
- Establish systems and processes which support the maintenance of outstanding levels of clinical performance, including MCN Clinical Lead staff appraisal.
- Work closely with the Regional Planning Group and West of Scotland NHS Boards in the reconfiguration of clinical services to meet the region’s strategic vision for cancer care, and with Directors of Planning in the provision of coherent and reliable information on clinical activity, quality and performance.
- Lead responsibility for the management of MCN Clinical Leads, ensuring that systems and processes are aligned to the success of the Network and employee relations issues dealt with efficiently and expeditiously.
- Lead the development of a strategy for the education, training and development of clinical leads, which encourages talent management, succession planning and the development of clinical leadership. Maintain effective relationships with key academic institutions.
- Ensure that research remains at the heart of the Network, through collaborative working with the established organisations and departments.
- Maintain effective communications with MCN Clinical Leads, ensuring that the MCNs are actively engaged in the development of services and clinical policy and protocols.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES
CORPORATE AND STATUTORY
- Provide advice on clinical staffing issues, having regard to statutory requirements and national and local policy and guidance.
- Contribute to the corporate development of the Network through the leadership of key areas of work agreed with the RCAG Chair and/or Scottish Cancer Taskforce Chair.
- Monitor the quality of patient care across the region against national/regional quality performance indicators.
- Ensure the efficient and appropriate utilisation of resources.
- Ensure that appraisal for MCN Clinical Leads occurs annually is carried out to a high standard and that clear objectives are set.
- Take responsibility for the strategic direction of the Network, the delivery of agreed work programmes and meeting performance and the financial targets.
- Take strategic responsibility for service and policy development and decisions particularly relating to national or regional initiatives.
- Provide professional leadership for Network staff and Clinical Leads.
- Be responsible for driving forward and shaping a culture of change, innovation and modernisation, to facilitate the implementation of effective clinical leadership and management arrangements, and to support service reconfiguration.
- Advise NHS Boards on the impact of legislation and national cancer policies on their ability to deliver safe, high quality clinical services.