Main area Admin Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working – Combining home working with attendance at our base sites (Northumbria House at Cobalt or North Ormesby Health Village)) Job ref 319-8279295VD-HAS
Site Northumbria House Town Newcastle upon Tyne Salary £49,387 – £56,515 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family’s children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Are you passionate about transforming cancer care and making a real impact for patients? The Northern Cancer Alliance is seeking a dynamic Delivery Lead (AFC Band 7) to drive innovation and value for money in planning, commissioning, and service provision. You’ll collaborate with partners to design and improve services, manage Alliance projects, and champion the interests of patients and the public as part of a forward-thinking team.
This role requires strong project management skills, the ability to build relationships across organisations, and a background in management studies or equivalent experience. You’ll implement best practice, oversee budgets and ensure compliance with standards while leading strategic initiatives within a complex healthcare environment.
This is aNorth East and Cumbria-wide hybrid role, combining home working with attendance at our base sites (Northumbria House at Cobalt or North Ormesby Health Village), as well as attendance at provider and service partner sites across the North East and North Cumbria. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly, balancing home working with in‑person engagement as required to support delivery of the programme.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The role supports the Cancer Alliance business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service provision. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery. The role will work with partners in service design and improvement.
As a Delivery Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Northern Cancer Alliance to improve pathways of care for cancer patients.
The post-holder will support the Programme Manager and the team to ensure that their work stream of projects are planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery:
- To lead the delivery and coordination of designated projects and workstreams in line with national cancer priorities and local objectives.
- Be a champion for service delivery efficiency, innovation and best practice across cancer pathways.
- Support evaluation, benefits realisation and continuous improvement activities associated with programme delivery.
- Day to day liaison with the many stakeholders involved in the NCA projects.
- To work autonomously and flexibly with the needs of the NCA.
- Evidencing effective involvement of the public at all levels of the NCA work plan.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA) represents an integration of all stakeholdersin cancer services for its population of 3.1 million people. The NCA consists of statutory and non-statutory bodies but is not astatutory organisation in its own right.
The NCA adopts a whole-population, whole-pathwayapproach to addressing the ambitions of the Long Term Plan for Cancer.Working across its geographical footprint to transform services and care,reducing variation in the availability of good care and the outcomes oftreatment while aiming to deliver continuous improvement in patientexperience, and reductions in inequality of access.
The NCA recognises the value of meaningful publicinvolvement and acknowledges the interdependency between patientsafety, clinical effectiveness and the patient experience within cancer careand treatment services. The Alliance is fully committed to the involvementof the public in all aspects of its work and embedding a culture whereinvolvement is part of “usual business”.
In order to deliver its ambitions, the NCA Team will bedistributed across its footprint and encompass a central core Alliance teamto drive forward the development and delivery of the Delivery Plan, alongwith resources within local ICB footprint areas to drive delivery at a local level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This Delivery Lead role within the Northern Cancer Alliance is responsible for leading and managing a portfolio of projects to support the delivery of cancer service transformation and improvement. The post holder works closely with programme managers, teams and system partners to plan, coordinate and deliver projects effectively, ensuring risks, issues, performance and finances are actively monitored and managed. The role involves building strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, providing expert advice, analysing performance data, and presenting complex information to support decision-making. It also contributes to strategic and operational planning, ensuring alignment with wider organisational priorities and improving cancer care pathways.
A key element of the role is championing patient and public involvement, addressing health inequalities, and ensuring patient experience informs service development. In addition, the Delivery Lead supports budget oversight, policy and service development, team leadership, and governance requirements, while working with a high level of autonomy to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes in a complex and changing environment
Person specification
1. Qualifications
- Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant e.g. Management Studies subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further specialist training or significant experience in programme management, project management, service improvement or transformation.
2. Experience & Knowledge
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex, challenging and politically sensitive environments.
4. Other
- Valid driving licence and access to a vehicle (or ability to meet travel requirements through reasonable adjustments).
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children’s homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust’s interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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