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    This role involves evaluating and reporting on local health initiatives that promote early cancer diagnosis in England. The consultant will support and advise organizations implementing social marketing campaigns, help define stronger evaluation methods, and compile reports on progress. Key responsibilities include ensuring timely evaluation, advising partners, coordinating data collection, and contributing to evaluation expertise at the organization. The ideal candidate has experience evaluating complex health programs, managing stakeholder relationships, and working in public health.

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    This role involves evaluating and reporting on local health initiatives that promote early cancer diagnosis in England. The consultant will support and advise organizations implementing social marketing campaigns, help define stronger evaluation methods, and compile reports on progress. Key responsibilities include ensuring timely evaluation, advising partners, coordinating data collection, and contributing to evaluation expertise at the organization. The ideal candidate has experience evaluating complex health programs, managing stakeholder relationships, and working in public health.

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    This role involves evaluating and reporting on local health initiatives that promote early cancer diagnosis in England. The consultant will support and advise organizations implementing social marketing campaigns, help define stronger evaluation methods, and compile reports on progress. Key responsibilities include ensuring timely evaluation, advising partners, coordinating data collection, and contributing to evaluation expertise at the organization. The ideal candidate has experience evaluating complex health programs, managing stakeholder relationships, and working in public health.

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    Role Profile

    Health Evaluation Consultant


    (Early Diagnosis)

    April 2010
    Role Title: HEALTH EVALUATION CONSULTANT (EARLY DIAGNOSIS)

    REPORTS TO HEAD OF HEALTH EVALUATION AND EQUALITIES, HEALTH


    INFORMATION

    Location London Head Office

    PURPOSE OF THE ROLE


    • Ensure consistent and timely evaluation and reporting across all
    agreed DH funded local activity promoting early diagnosis of breast,
    bowel and lung cancer in 2010/11.
    • Help define ways to strengthen the impact of the work undertaken
    locally through coordination with ongoing work of the National
    Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI)
    • Work with CR-UK team of social marketing managers to provide
    evaluation support and advice to NHS organisations planning and
    engaging in front-line social marketing activity
    • Support Primary Care Trusts to help them to evaluate a variety of
    social marketing and community based campaigns and to work to
    nationally defined evaluation measures
    • Write reports on the impact of local NHS activity supported by CR-
    UK and funded by DH to improve early diagnosis of breast, bowel
    and lung cancer
    • Ensure progress against a national evaluation framework is
    reported on at regular intervals and at year end
    • Contribute to the development of evaluation expertise within the
    Health Information Department.

    KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

    Ensure that initiatives led by NHS organisations and supported by the


    Social Marketing Team (Early Diagnosis) within CR-UK are well supported
    and equipped to evaluate agreed activity.

    Give evaluation advice and support Cancer Networks and Primary Care
    Trust (PCTs) about the evaluation of initiatives designed to improve early
    diagnosis of breast, bowel and lung cancer.

    Ensure that Department of Health (DH) grant funded project partners


    report progress against the national evaluation framework indicators in a
    timely manner.

    Co-ordinate project partner evaluation reports and compile regular high


    level reports for CR-UK and relevant partners, communicating key
    findings, learning and action points and progress made.
    Ensure that relevant evaluation guidance is made available in accessible
    form to partners via the NAEDI hub.

    Contribute to an evaluation resource by identifying and linking the NAEDI


    Hub to useful information via internal sources and external information
    sites as appropriate.

    Gather intelligence about best practice and make this available to


    stakeholders.
    Act as a resource to support the evaluation of other health information
    projects as required.

    Interfaces/Interdependencies

    Key interfaces

    Internal:
    • Head of Health Evaluation and Equalities
    • Head of Health Campaigns and Marketing
    • Health Information Director
    • Senior Social Marketing Manager
    • Social Marketing Managers
    • Senior Health Evaluation Officer
    • Health Information Team
    • Statistics Team

    External:
    • PCTs and Cancer Networks
    • Department of Health
    • National Cancer Action Team
    • Academia
    • Social marketing agencies/consultants

    Person Specification
    Qualifications and Experience

    Essentials:
    • Educated to at least degree level or relevant experience, with good
    experience of health evaluation, preferably of complex
    interventions, and data analysis
    • Excellent communication skills especially in relation to advocating
    evaluation
    • Demonstrable understanding of challenges involved in working with
    multiple stakeholders.
    • Experience of managing stakeholder relationships
    • Experience of influencing across a wide range of levels of seniority
    • Evidence of having used planning and analytical skills to great
    effect
    • Experience of working within a team, and advising and consulting
    on evaluating varied projects.
    • Excellent IT skills
    Desirables:
    • Experience of coordinating evaluation in complex settings
    • Experience of working in a public health environments.
    • Experience of social marketing and communications.
    • Good understanding of challenges involved in progressing national
    health strategies, such as the Cancer Reform Strategy
    • Experience of working in a multi-stakeholder environment
    • Experience of statistical analysis
    • Experience of an NHS informatics environment
    • Understanding of data held by Cancer Registries

    Key personal qualities:


    • Excellent listening, understanding and communication skills
    • Very good writing and presentation skills
    • Well organised, and good time management skills
    • Pays attention to detail, whilst bearing in mind bigger picture
    • Ability to work in a multi-professional team
    • Self-motivation – able to work on own initiative

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