Job summary
- Main area
- Screening and Immunisations
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Hybrid working: Either Bristol, Plymouth or Taunton NHS England South West base
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 990-SW-6851774-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHS England Office across South West Geography
- Town
- Taunton/Bristol/Plymouth
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Screening and Immunisation Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition,Ìýalthough the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The role of the Screening and Immunisation Manager (SIM) is to bring specific public health expertise to support the Screening and Immunisation Leads (SILs) and Senior Screening and Immunisation Manager (SSIM) in providing effective public health leadership for screening and immunisation programmes across the South West.
Employed by NHSE South West Vaccination and Screening Team with day to day line management provided by the Senior Screening and Immunisation Manager (SSIM).
Individuals in these roles may come from a number of backgrounds, including nursing as demonstrated for example by NMC or PH clinical registration.
Main duties of the job
Support the SILs and the SSIM in ensuring that local screening and immunisation programmes are commissioned to meet the requirements and standards of national service specifications. This will be achieved by:
- Developing relationships with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)
- Incident management, including supporting SILs when required
- Representing SILs at regional and national meetings when required
- Provide the day to day management of workplans, keeping SILs informed of issues/risks/incidents
- Have oversight of specific geographical areas in the SW, including developing strong relationships with stakeholders, inputting into the relevant Maximising Uptake in Immunisations Groups (MUIGs)
- Responding to queries and advising providers, including Immunisation Clinical Advise and Response Service (ICARS)
- Representing SILs at programme boards
- Working with providers to improve performance issues
- Working with Screening Quality Assurance Service colleagues to manage incidents and outcomes of QA visitsÌý
- Leading on specific sections of various reports/papers aimed at internal and external stakeholders was required
- Using health inequalities knowledge to lead specific health inequalities projects
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visitÌýhttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the .Ìý
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The SW Vaccination and Screening Team (SW VaST) covers the South West.
The team leads on the identification of local need, and working with key partners, the development and leadership of evidence based strategies to address those needs, relating to screening and immunisation programmes. The Screening and Immunisation Manager (SIM) provides specialist public health advice to support the commissioning of section 7a programmes.
The SIM uses public health specialist knowledge and skills to identify and advocate for local population needs, supporting providers to implement national programmes and provide professional advice and challenge to commissioners.Ìý
The SW VaST has a key role in developing and maintaining relationships with local systems and providers of public health services (NHS and independent), NHS commissioners, local authorities, and the third sector to identify need, influence and support the delivery of improved outcomes for the public’s health.
This includes the local commissioning of the national cancer screening programmes (bowel cancer, cervical and breast); adult and young people screening programmes (diabetic eye and abdominal aortic aneurysm); routine childhood immunisations and targeted immunisations for maternity, school aged, and adults including influenza immunisation.
You will provide direct support to the Screening and Immunisation Leads (SILs) and Senior Screening and Immunisation Manager (SSIM) across the full range of commissioning activities, as specified in the Section 7a agreement and which are required to ensure that screening and immunisation programmes:
- Meet the needs of all eligible people
- Provided to the highest levels of quality, safety and efficiency
- Meet minimum standards and strive for excellence
- Ensure equity of access and uptake
Depending on the requirements of the team the postholder will have responsibility for specific immunisation and screening programmes and will be expected to work as part of the team to ensure coordinated and integrated delivery of individual programmes and team priorities. Programme responsibilities may change according to the needs of the service.
Overall line management will be provided by the SSIM.
Line managing a team of Screening and Immunisation Coordinators (SICs) who will implement strategies and plans to support continuous improvement of the commissioning and delivery of the national programmes.
Postholders with a clinical background are able to maintain clinical registration within this role.
GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
- Responsible, within the national policy context for the development and implementation of strategies and plans for continually improving the commissioning and performance of the national programmes in your defined area of geographical responsibility.
- Engage with the NHSE screening quality assurance teams and ensure that their advice is considered and that areas of concern are addressed.
- Contribute to facilitation and delivery of immunisation and screening training programmes.
- Ensure that robust systems and processes are in place to collate and analyse data and that this is provided in useful formats to key interested parties in the commissioning board, ICSs, DsPH and Health and Well-being Boards, UKHSA, DHSC, and providers.
Responsible for ensuring that effective plans and systems are in place for the identification of serious incidents and to ensure that they are properly dealt with and that lessons are learnt and acted upon. - Ensure that advice from relevant national bodies e.g. Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and UK National Screening Committees (UKSNC) is communicated and understood by coordinators and are accountable for the implementation of this advice.
OPERATIONAL
- Oversee team members to deliver requirements as above and engage / liaise with key stakeholders.
- Support the delivery of day-to-day activities and projects.
- Manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects.
- Support the identification and sharing of best practice in employee engagement.
- Operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
- Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value-for-money for the current spend through tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
STAFF MANAGEMENT
- Directly manages a team of SICs, responsible for day to day work assigned to team.
- Responsible for the recruitment of team staff, chair of recruitment panels and acting as a recruiting officer.
- Responsible for undertaking appraisal and personal development including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues.
- Forge close positive working relationships, to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHSEs objective.
- Support, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver policies for its workforce.
- Managing third parties (such as consultants / interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget.
MANAGEMENT
- Lead a team of SICs and oversee the implementation of strategies and plans to support continuous improvement of the commissioning and delivery of the national programmes.
- Liaise with contract and finance managers you will lead negotiations with providers in cases of underperformance and support coordinators in developing and implementing remedial action plans.
- Deputise for the SILs and SSIM as required.
- Support the SILs to establish and lead local screening and immunisation oversight groups to ensure effective coordination of the services, share best practice and support the collective improvement of the service.
- Chair meetings as agreed and delegated by the SILs and as determined by local need.
The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by your line manager with appropriate training as required.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of NHSE.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Substantive experience in Public Health ideally in management responsibilities with screening and / or immunisations
- Knowledge of principles and practice of public health including health needs assessment and evidence base strategies to address health inequalities
- Knowledge of health care system especially primary care
- Demonstrable experience of project management skills and leading complex projects. Detailed understanding of immunisation and / or screening programmes and their implementation
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Desirable criteria
- Experience of commissioning public health population programmes
Skills and capabilities
Essential criteria
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individual
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor / Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes / practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Equality and diversity
Essential criteria
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships, both in terms of day-to-day working practices, and in relation to management systems
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elizabeth Luckett
- Job title
- Senior Screening and Immunisation Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825421093
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