Head of Strategic Partnerships

St Andrew’s Healthcare

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Job summary

Ready for a new challenge leading and driving our commercial activity and external relationships?

You can achieve more at St Andrew’s Healthcare

In this role you will deliver outstanding customer service ensuring our the relationships we have with our external stakeholders and partners are positive and responsive. Working in partnership with commissioners, case managers and referrers, you will ensure that we are operating to maximise positive outcomes for those people we care for and support.

You will ensure we maximise utilisation of current and future service offers and enhance the Charity’s positive reputation whilst becoming the provider of choice for our customers and partners.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Developing and nurturing strategic, commercial and reputation enhancing relationship to meet our critical strategic and financial objectives
  • Developing strategies and plans for our key partners and customers including Providers Collaboratives, Integrated Care Systems and NHS England
  • Promoting the Charity, its service offers and the positive work we do to increase awareness, enhance reputation and optimise service utilisation and new business opportunities
  • Optimising utilisation of services with intelligent and collaborative forecasting and planning, and responding to changes in commissioner requirements and the needs of people
  • Ensuring admissions to our services are made in a timely, customer focussed manner whilst minimising periods of non-utilisation
  • Overseeing and managing the contracts life cycle ensuring appropriate contracts are in place for clinical service delivery and that we fulfil our contractual obligations
  • Managing the annual contractual negotiations with our NHS, CCG and other customers

About us

St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, alongside education and research that help to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs, learning disability or autism.

As a charity, all of our profits are re-invested into new services and new facilities. And because we’re independent, we have the flexibility to make a real difference. Joining us is your chance to make a big contribution to amazing work that is transforming the lives of some of society’s most vulnerable people.

Date posted

07 April 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£62,000 to £77,500 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

B0354-30768

Job locations

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG


Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be an experienced and inspiring leader who can lead and manage teams within complex environments. You will ideally have significant experience of working within mental health and learning disabilities care within the NHS, Social Care or Housing sectors.

You’ll have excellent analytical skills and the ability to take data, information, concepts and ideas to produce credible insights and proposals, as well as a good understanding of the health and social care operating context.

You’ll also have an in depth understanding of the key contractual mechanisms required by the NHS including tender development and submission.

You will have the integrity to challenge the status quo and improve care quality. You will have a strong history of innovation, and the communication and influencing skills to engage with senior internal and external stakeholders.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be an experienced and inspiring leader who can lead and manage teams within complex environments. You will ideally have significant experience of working within mental health and learning disabilities care within the NHS, Social Care or Housing sectors.

You’ll have excellent analytical skills and the ability to take data, information, concepts and ideas to produce credible insights and proposals, as well as a good understanding of the health and social care operating context.

You’ll also have an in depth understanding of the key contractual mechanisms required by the NHS including tender development and submission.

You will have the integrity to challenge the status quo and improve care quality. You will have a strong history of innovation, and the communication and influencing skills to engage with senior internal and external stakeholders.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • St Andrews Healthcare has reviewed its approach to COVID vaccination and our procedure remains that for the safety and wellbeing of our patients and staff, all new starters joining the Charity will be required to provide evidence to our Occupational Health team that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Where there is a medical exemption this will need to be provided as part of the Occupational Health check. New starters to the Charity will not be able to commence work without evidence being provided.
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • St Andrews Healthcare has reviewed its approach to COVID vaccination and our procedure remains that for the safety and wellbeing of our patients and staff, all new starters joining the Charity will be required to provide evidence to our Occupational Health team that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Where there is a medical exemption this will need to be provided as part of the Occupational Health check. New starters to the Charity will not be able to commence work without evidence being provided.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG


Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG


Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Recruitment

Dave Anthony

davidjanthony@hotmail.com

01604616585

Date posted

07 April 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£62,000 to £77,500 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

B0354-30768

Job locations

St. Andrews

Billing Road

Northampton

NN1 5DG


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