Description
Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Do you want to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Working in NHS England's Cancer Programme, that's just what you'll do.
Working in the NHS Cancer Programme, you will help set the agenda for cancer care in England. Our goal is to diagnose cancer earlier, help more people survive it, and improve their quality of life and experience of care. We work with people affected by cancer, clinicians, charities, Regions, Cancer Alliances, and trusts, and develop national policy and strategy to transform services for people across the country.
As a Programme Support Officer, you will support delivery of Performance and Pathways Team priorities, including pathway improvement, governance, stakeholder engagement, programme reporting and the coordination of products and meetings that support national and regional delivery.
You will be responsible for:
- Supporting the Performance and Pathways Team with project planning, programme delivery and tracking of key milestones.
- Engaging with stakeholders, such as Cancer Alliances, clinical teams, national subject matter experts, Royal Colleges, charities and patients, to support the design and delivery of Performance and Pathways Team priorities.
- Supporting the governance groups by providing high-quality secretariat support to project meetings, workshops and engagement events.
- Supporting the development of programme communications and products, including preparing slide decks, maintaining action logs, coordinating briefing materials and updating programme documentation.
- Sharing learning, ideas and ways of working across the Performance and Pathways Team and wider NHS Cancer Programme to increase consistency and efficiency.
- Closely managing project documentation to support delivery on time and to agreed governance requirements, including recording actions, risks, issues and decisions.
The Cancer Programme Team takes its responsibility to promote equality and diversity seriously. We respect colleagues from different backgrounds and embrace different cultural preferences in everything we do.
Benefits:
- Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
- Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
- If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).