Deputy Director of Diagnostics and Cancer

Reporting directly to the Director of Planned Care and Improvement the Deputy Director of Diagnostics and Cancer will lead on the delivery of Diagnostics and Cancer strategy and operations at a regional level working in collaboration with, and through the system coordination teams in the operations directorate. The focus of the role will be on assuring the delivery of Diagnostics and Cancer care performance across the region working alongside the national team and our elective improvement team to ensure this is underpinned by a structured approach to improvement; providing subject matter expertise to Regional colleagues, ICB's and to wider systems and ALBs based on comprehensive experience of managing Diagnostics and Cancer performance measures; interfacing with colleagues responsible for elective, cancer, diagnostics, planning, community and primary care services to ensure the interface between services and sectors is configured to support delivery of planned care., The Deputy Director of Diagnostics and Cancer will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across East of England Region. The post holder will

• work with regional and system colleagues and with other ALBs and national teams to ensure that the Diagnostics and Cancer performance standards are met, that systems deliver high quality Services and that this is supported by a structured approach to improvement across health systems.
• work alongside regional colleagues to ensure that systems plan and deliver services which meet operational planning and constitutional commitments.
• provide subject matter expertise to Regional colleagues, ICB's and to wider systems and ALBs based on comprehensive experience of managing Diagnostics and Cancer performance measures, and a sound ability to interpret both performance and activity data
• support a system approach to improvement in elective recovery services, using assets from across the system to improve outcomes, experience and efficiency of services.
• be a part of a team with responsibility for analysing performance against a variety of measures, and from this identify strategies and interventions to support and facilitate necessary improvements, at organisation and system level or across East of England
• develop structures and processes to support the sustainable delivery of high quality elective services across East of England.
  
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