Breast Screening Service Programme Manager

Job overview

An exiting opportunity has arisen to employ a Programme Manager for the Breast Screening Service. The service welcomes applications from both clinical and non clinical backgrounds, who have strong leadership, project management, analytical skills and can work in a collaborative way.

The Breast Imaging Unit at UHCW provides a fully integrated screening and symptomatic clinical service. The Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry Breast screening service has a screening population of 159, 645 (ages 50 – 70), covering the areas of Coventry, Solihull, Rugby, North and South Warwickshire.

The service has been fully digital since 2009 and has three GE Pristina 3D Senoiris mammography units with Tomography and stereotactic capability and four GE ultrasound machines. The team uses a full skill mix, with assistant practitioners and radiographers for mammography, advanced practitioners undertaking film reading and stereotactic biopsies, and consultant radiographers participating in all aspects of breast work including MDTs alongside breast radiologists.

Screening images have been stored on a dedicated Insignia PACS since October 2016, which is able to share images with the hospital Insignia PACS.

• The post holder will manage the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme, (NHS BSP) for a catchment area of approximately 159,646 women across the Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull region.
• To provide highly specialised advice to the Trust on the National NHS Breast Screening Programme and be the main point of contact for all Breast Screening Programme queries.
• To take responsibility for the delivery of a cost effective, safe, high quality breast screening service and supporting waste reduction work.
• To analyse and interpret data from the NHS BSP database to provide written and statistical reports to the Programme Director, Breast Imaging Service Lead, Regional Quality Assurance Office, National Office, UHCW Senior Leadership team, other service managers and healthcare professionals.
• The post holder will work closely with key stakeholders to ensure that the service is consistent and streamlined.
• The post holder will ensure that the service meets the targets of the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
• The post holder will build upon and maintain effective communication with internal and external stakeholders throughout the local health economy covered by the Screening Programme.
• To be responsible for all aspects of line management of the administrative team.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

• Promote a shared vision and culture within the Breast Screening and Symptomatic Service based on a collaborative approach to the delivery of services that incorporates the requirement of patients’, service users and stakeholders.
• Initiate, develop and undertake projects pertaining to breast screening service within agreed timescales.
• Continually develop and review the screening Round Length plan, workforce, and service plans to take account of the changing demands placed upon the service through the impact of national and regional initiatives, the outcomes of relevant internal and external research and customer focused developments.
• Manage consultations on service changes by involving commissioners, SQAS, health and wellbeing boards and other relevant stakeholders.
• Deliver care pathway solutions which remove barriers and improve access to the breast screening programme, working in partnership with other organisations, where outcomes meet the requirements of service specification.

For further details of the job role please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders