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Proton Clinical Outcomes

3 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Christie NHS FT Full time

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced data specialist to lead the Proton Clinical Outcomes Unit (PCOU) at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust and the NHS Proton Registry. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary, data driven team, and be part of the development of the NHS Proton Registry and Evaluative Commissioning in Protons (ECIP) programme.

We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate, who has the necessary qualifications, skills and experience to manage this team, and provide technical leadership, to advance the team, in providing a high-quality service to deliver the national proton data strategy. You will have the skills to effectively communicate with a broad range of stakeholders and have a fundamental understanding of all elements of data and the technologies required to facilitate its use, including collection, storage, processing, quality assurance, and advanced statistical analysis.

This role provides the opportunity to be an integral part of the Proton Therapy Service, leading in crucial outcomes analysis to ensure the best treatments are delivered to patients and continuous developments are made to the service. The PCOU takes pride in facilitating practice changing studies and research, where benefits of joining our team include conference attendance and co-authorship of high-impact publications that can have a huge benefit for cancer care.

This is a permanent position, with the option to work a mixture of onsite at The Christie or from home.

Main duties of the job

Act as technical lead for the PCOU and National Proton Registry, to provide expert advice and oversight to all stakeholders, and deputise for the PBT Clinical Director, to develop and implement the national proton data strategy.

Provide direct line management for PCOU and Registry staff, acting within the Trust's HR polices on all staffing matters.

Manage the development of the NHS Proton Registry, liaise with, and hold to account Digital Services and external suppliers to ensure successful delivery of the Registry and ECIP programme.

Manage the development of local PCOU and Registry governance procedures, in liaison information governance colleagues, and ensure compliance with such procedures and the PCOU and Registry research ethics applications.

Provide expert input into study design and ECIP protocol development, and lead the team in contributing to the planning, conduct and reporting of research and service improvement projects.

Appraise the technology developments of the PCOU and Registry, associated clinical studies and improvement initiatives, in relation to the utility of data.

Act as budget holder for the PCOU and Registry, and lead on business case production in relation to the national proton data strategy.

About us

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 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.

The PCOU forms part of the Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) service, a specialised form of radiation therapy. The Christie PBT Centre is one of two high-energy proton centres that have been developed in the UK, and the developing NHS Proton Registry and Evaluative Commissioning in Protons programme provide a unique opportunity to be involved in novel NHS data and research strategies.

The PCOU is a motivated, multidisciplinary team which values all roles within the team, ensuring commitment to professional development, excellent work-life balance, and effective use of our staff's expertise to deliver a high-quality service.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide leadership within the PCOU and act as a role model and resource for all team members. Direct line management responsibility for non-clinical staff within the PCOU including administrative workload allocation. Responsible for recruitment, retention, disciplinary and grievance, and all staffing management issues in accordance with relevant Trust policies.

Act as a key point of contact internally and externally for the PCOU and NHS Proton Registry, representing both at local and national stakeholder meetings, and lead on reporting at appropriate divisional, departmental, trust and national level meetings.

Act as technical lead for the PCOU and NHS Proton Registry, providing expert advice and oversight to all stakeholders, and deputising for the PBT Clinical Director, as required, in matters related to the national proton data strategy.

Lead and manage PCOU and NHS Proton Registry to provide a professional service as part of the national proton data strategy, to deliver on projects, objectives, requests, research and developments to fulfil the ambition of the unit, and local and national stakeholders.

Development of the NHS Proton Registry by liaising with and holding Digital Services and external suppliers to account to ensure successful delivery of the Registry and ECIP programme.

Development of local PCOU and National Registry governance procedures, in liaison with local and national information governance colleagues, ensuring that others within the team are aware of and adhere to such procedures. Participate in the monitoring of compliance with all relevant standards and ensure compliance with the PCOU and Registry research ethics applications.

Play a key role in the development of the proton outcome research strategy, leading the development and implementation of the strategy, producing a comprehensive plan detailing timescales and milestones for the collection, analysis and monitoring of clinical outcome measures. Help develop national and international benchmarking opportunities, including with other NHS provider organisations.

Provide expert input into study design, including data collection methodologies and technologies, definition of primary outcome measures, calculation of appropriate sample size and the specification of appropriate analytics and statistical methodologies as part of required analysis plans.

Lead the PCOU and Registry in the selection, development, collection, validation and analysis of clinical outcome data, including patient reported and clinician reported outcomes. Lead the team in contributing to the planning, conduct and reporting of research and service improvement projects.

Encourage collaboration and establish relationships with other providers to facilitate the collection and development of comparative outcome measures. Development of mechanisms to monitor data quantity and quality and formulate solutions to collect data efficiently.

Appraise the technology developments of the PCOU and NHS Proton Registry, associated clinical studies and improvement initiatives in their aim, application, benefits, weakness, and risk in relation to utility of data. Co-ordinating expertise as necessary to provide strong and positive advice in the best interests of the PBT Service, Trust and NHS England.

Contribute as a key member of the PBT departmental management team, into the direction and development of the improvement, learning and strategic roadmap for proton clinical outcomes.

Lead the team in using data to inform key system improvements by linking with other disciplines in Digital Services and the clinical teams, to inform the cycle of outcome knowledge, to system information, to data management, to data quality and control, to changes needed to meet the outcome improvement aims.

Oversee the communications within the team in providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information. Liaises with stakeholders, communicating complex concepts and issues, clearly and accurately, and adapting communication style to suit the recipient.

Lead on the review, appraisal, and submission of funding applications applicable to the national proton data strategy. Grants may be entirely led by the PCOU or Registry, or where colleagues require technical detail and support for grants or commercial agreements progressed as part of a wider team.

Responsible for planning, monitoring and delivery of funded projects, programmes, and initiatives, paying close attention to the timely milestones and outputs required.

Assist policy development, including review and appraisal of linked policy or process in the Trust, particularly in the development, governance and implementation of data management, analytics and statistical services, in collaboration with the Clinical Outcomes and Data Unit.

Lead the development of the team to respond to questions or queries from clinicians, researchers, and technologists, by using and adapting complex software and analysis methodologies, providing meaningful, repeatable and understandable scientific outputs.

SUPERVISORY AND MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Undertake performance review and management and act on identified development needs to maintain high levels of performance and quality within the team.

Implement and work within the Trusts HR policies on all staffing matters, including sickness, capability, and disciplinary issues. Take corrective measures if indicated in liaison with human resources and the management team.

Responsible for identifying and managing demand in areas where there are shared and conflicting agendas. Planning, organisation and monitoring of a broad range of complex activities or programmes some of which are ongoing, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategiesTo positively and professionally encourage the team, colleagues, and partnerships to use data to best effect, using best practices, always ethically and ensure privacy is protected, where the benefit to the patient is at the heart of everything we do.

TEACHING AND TRAINING

Provide, contribute and co-ordinate the team in the teaching of data management, analytics and statistical skills to groups associated to the unit along with clinicians, and students, linking to the School of Oncology and associated University programmes, when relevant.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESOURCES

Delgated budget holder for PCOU and Proton Registry fund budgets, monitoring and managing income and expenditure. Provide financial reports to the proton departmental meeting and NHS England when requested.

Lead on business case production for the national proton data strategy, and undertake solution searches and appraisals of supplier proposals for local and national proton data collection, processing, storage, and publication requirements.

RESEARCH AND AUDIT

Lead, oversee and contribute to research with substantial time (> 20%) in progressing research initiatives and the writing of formal academic publications, in relation to studies devised through the Proton Research Committee, Evaluative Commissioning in Protons programme, and those led by the PCOU or Registry directly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Education to postgraduate degree level in a numerate discipline, or an equivalent level of knowledge or demonstrable equivalent experience/skills

Desirable

Evidence of continued professional development Database/dataflow/reporting practitioner certificates SQL, Microsoft server tools etc. Project management qualification Management, leadership or mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential

Experience of leadership in the NHS/healthcare setting Substantial experience in the application of and/or studying/researching Business intelligence & Statistics Experience working with healthcare data in a professional informatics role Experience of data quality/data integrity monitoring and improvement Experience of providing an information management service to requestors assuring quality and robustness of data products and processes, including ethical and legal considerations Significant experience of leading on a range of projects, identifying and managing demand and prioritising resources, to deliver objectives and meet strategic priorities Experience planning and delivering data analytics projects in a sandpit/proof concept environment and planning for promoting tools to production environments, taking the lead in selecting appropriate tools and analytical techniques. Experience of clinical trials/studies, including study design and analysis

Desirable

Experience of audit methodologies Experience of querying databases using SQL to extract datasets, filter, join, create views Experience of projects and change management Experience of coaching individuals and lead a team engendering enthusiasm and commitment

Skills

Essential

Highly developed skills of using a statistical software or package, R, STATA, Python, and/or SPSS Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex, technical concepts, and issues with relevant stakeholders Analytical skills in data extraction, data analysis and report writing with ability to make sound observations and recommendations through formal reporting. Planning and Organisation of a broad range of complex activities or programmes some of which are ongoing, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies Academic writing for publication in high impact journals.

Desirable

Intermediate skills in the use of a data visualisation tool Tableau or Power BI Intermediate skills in the use of databases including database structure and database interrogation tools and SQL. Application of essential skills within NHS environment

Knowledge

Essential

Broad knowledge of statistical techniques and understanding of data collection methods and data analysis Expertise in the application of business intelligence and statistical methodologies, for reporting and research purposes, including data visualisation and survival analysis expertise Developed knowledge of professional standards and information governance in order to ensure quality, value, and compliance for service Knowledge of project or service management practices, tools and techniques Knowledge of NHS datasets and submission of information to external parties

Desirable

Knowledge of relational databases, system integration interfaces and the principles between data exchange between systems Understanding of how services are commissioned within the NHS Knowledge of PBT services, studies and programmes

Values

Essential

Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours

Other

Essential

Evidence of continuing professional and personal development Ability to work flexibly to meet key deadlines