An opportunity has arisen in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance to join this dynamic, high profile, busy team, and support in the delivery of the National Cancer Programme priorities within the NHS Long-Term Plan.

As a project support officer, you will work as part of a dynamic team that provides support and expertise to help the Integrated Care Systems (ICS's), West Midlands Cancer Alliance and NHS England direct commissioners deliver their plans. You will be providing effective service and programme management supporting managers and staff to deliver several cancer projects.

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.

Key Functional Responsibilities

Analytical/Judgemental

Undertake complex and detailed information analysis of specific projects/reports

Update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information

Provide coordination of and participate in relevant meetings, providing information advice where requested.

Communication

Work with members of the team and key stakeholders.

Support the development of internal and external communications

Information Management

Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, reporting to enhance decision making processes.

Updating, maintaining, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meet future organisational and team needs by identifying best professional practice

Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems

Key Working Relationships

Maintain good relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be complex and contain contentious information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams.

Work with members of the team to develop and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data

There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you will do.

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.

Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement.

Please see attached Job Description for more detailed information pertaining to roles and responsibilities.

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