Overview
Senior Project Manager for Acute Oncology Data – Band 7
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Location: Aintree Hospital, with travel across the Cheshire and Merseyside region. Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum. Closing date: 19/09/2025 23:59.
Job overview
We are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic and experienced Project Manager to work as part of our Project Management team. This will involve working with partners across the system to improve outcomes within cancer services, specifically within the urgent cancer care and acute oncology. The post holder will have a key role in supporting trusts, building strong relationships with stakeholders to support transformation projects. Working with new and established clinical leadership forums, local partners and patients is key to the role. Our core project team needs additional enthusiastic and skilled people to help us in delivering best practice, value, experience and outcomes for patients. The Project Manager post is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is passionate about improving cancer services and reducing health inequalities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who have the skills and motivation to join a busy and energetic team.
The base for this vacancy will be Aintree Hospital with an expectation to travel to trusts across the Cheshire and Merseyside region.
Main duties of the job
The post will focus on the following key areas:
* Data Alignment: Ensuring consistency and alignment of Somerset data fields across all CMCA teams to facilitate comprehensive and accurate data capture.
* Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Developing SOPs and educational tools to guide data capture, submission, and reporting.
* Collaboration and Liaison: Working closely with regional business intelligence and cancer performance teams to support accurate data reporting using Somerset.
* Compliance: Assisting local teams in ensuring alignment with Cancer Outcomes and Services Data (COSD) requirements and ensuring governance through local cancer performance teams.
* Oversight and Submission: Ensuring that Acute Oncology (AO) data is submitted to the AO Clinical Quality Group for further oversight, contributing to continuous improvement in data accuracy.
* Summary: By focusing on these core areas, the project manager will help improve data quality, ensuring that the AO data accurately reflects the scope and scale of interventions. This role will play a key part in the successful development of a regional AO dataset and will contribute to the overall improvement of urgent cancer care services.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Project management and day to day running of one or more large scale complex transformation projects.
Setting up and planning of the project(s) including project steering groups, project assurance function, project teams, project documentation using the LUHFT programme management documentation and recognised project management methodologies.
Identify resources to enable project delivery and assuring delivery on time and to budget.
Ensure that the project reporting adheres to the programme governance framework.
Ensure effective communication to all stakeholders.
Identify and manage the risks associated with each project.
Manage the change brought about by the project effectively and efficiently.
Provide expert project management advice and support to other staff and teams within the CA and partner organisations.
Make a significant contribution to the development of the Programme Management Office (PMO) team as well as leading on specific complex projects.
Maintain knowledge of local, regional and national projects that are current and pending.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Masters Degree or equivalent
* Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects
Experience
* Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
* Experience of managing a team
* Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
* Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
* Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
* Teaching and presentation skills
* Experience of affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
* Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution
* Experience of working in a NHS environment
* A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care
Knowledge
* Specialist knowledge and in-depth substantial experience of working in a project environment
Skills
* Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of staff or public
* Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
* Ability to present project management techniques and tools
* Ability to discuss project management technical details with non-technical users
* Ability to deliver presentations to a large audience
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to internal staff are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
DBS and sponsorship information: trust policy requires cost of submitting and processing the successful applicant's DBS application to be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2 December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependants will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance policy on abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must adhere to safeguarding policies and Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. All employees and volunteers are expected to maintain safeguarding knowledge through mandatory training.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme to support staff experiencing domestic abuse or other violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 to ensure measures can be put in place.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and must be checked via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
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