The Assistant Director for the Value Improvement Programme will support the development of robust programmes across a range of areas, including the Trust's efficiency plans.
The NHS has a major focus on improving financial sustainability, including a need to ensure financial control, whilst balancing multiple complex and competing priorities across clinical demand, operational activity, workforce changes, and constrained funding.
The Assistant Director – Value Improvement Programme (AVP) will be a key strategic leadership role within the Trust, focused on delivering finance transformational change and financial assurance activities within the Christie NHS FT, by engaging with Divisional stakeholders, as well as with the wider partnership organisations across the Greater Manchester Integrated Care System.
The Key Areas Of Responsibility Include
Championing PMO practices to ensure consistency in the development and design of programme governance.
Internal leadership to drive the Trust's cost improvement programme, known as the 'Adding Value Programme.'
Leadership and delivery of financial transformation and change programmes.
External engagement in financial implications of major service change processes and related cost benefit analyses.
Leading the development of innovative ways of working to support improving the financial position
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year.
We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.
We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.