Job summary
Your brief will be to support the Associate Director in managing the main NHSE Contract, but you will also negotiate, manage and develop your own portfolio of Contracts. You will work with NHSE/ICBs to establish and maintain close collaborative working arrangements in addition to working closely with Trust Clinical Groups to ensure their involvement in promoting service developments and in defining Contractual quality and performance standards. The role will lead on Commissioner SDIPs and will play a key role in Quality Metrics. The role will also provide comprehensive advice to Clinical Groups on the development of Trust business and will provide business advice to support Clinical Groups in developing business activities.
Main duties of the job
The Head of Contracts and Service Development will lead and manage the Contracts and Service Development function, ensuring the effective development, negotiation, and management of highly complex NHS contracts with commissioners. The post-holder will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to shape and improve Trust healthcare services delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in line with NHS priorities and financial frameworks with strategic oversight of Trust-wide service developments.
As a senior leader, the postholder will negotiate Trust NHS Contracts and be responsible, on behalf of the Associate Director of Finance (Contracting) for negotiating, managing and monitoring a portfolio of Contracts with NHSE, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and other commissioning bodies, fostering a customer-focused relationship with commissioners and ensuring that the Trust's highly complex NHS Contracts are negotiated with the best possible terms to the Trust.
About us
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is the largest and one of the most prestigious Trusts in the country providing a comprehensive range of secondary services to a local cosmopolitan population and tertiary services to more distant patients from 5 main hospital sites, as well as community sites across South East London.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role involves working with NHSE/ICBs/Local Authorities to establish and maintain close collaborative working arrangements in addition to working closely with Clinical Groups to ensure their involvement in promoting service developments and in defining Contractual quality and performance standards. The role will lead on quality issues including SDIPs and Quality Metrics.
To provide highly complex technical expertise, guidance, quality assurance and support to Clinical Groups for all service development and commissioner-related activities. The postholder will act as a key link between the Contracting team and Clinical Groups, engaging clinicians and managers in the financial impact of the highly complex National Payment Scheme and the importance of accurate and timely information capture. The postholder will support Clinical Groups on the development of Trust business (including related to commissioner tenders) and will provide casemix analysis and business advice to support Clinical Groups in developing business activities as well as assessing the financial viability and sustainability of services.
To ensure contract documentation is completed, signed, managed, stored and retained as a source of reference.
To liaise and lobby ICBs, NHSE and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to support the strategic development of the Trust.
Deputise for the Associate Director of Finance (Contracting) and provide professional support to the Contracting team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role involves working with NHSE/ICBs/Local Authorities to establish and maintain close collaborative working arrangements in addition to working closely with Clinical Groups to ensure their involvement in promoting service developments and in defining Contractual quality and performance standards. The role will lead on quality issues including SDIPs and Quality Metrics.
To provide highly complex technical expertise, guidance, quality assurance and support to Clinical Groups for all service development and commissioner-related activities. The postholder will act as a key link between the Contracting team and Clinical Groups, engaging clinicians and managers in the financial impact of the highly complex National Payment Scheme and the importance of accurate and timely information capture. The postholder will support Clinical Groups on the development of Trust business (including related to commissioner tenders) and will provide casemix analysis and business advice to support Clinical Groups in developing business activities as well as assessing the financial viability and sustainability of services.
To ensure contract documentation is completed, signed, managed, stored and retained as a source of reference.
To liaise and lobby ICBs, NHSE and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to support the strategic development of the Trust.
Deputise for the Associate Director of Finance (Contracting) and provide professional support to the Contracting team.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior manager experience in the NHS with demonstrable successful record in staff management
- Significant knowledge and in-depth experience of commissioning, contracting and provision of services
- Detailed knowledge of the NHS Standard Acute Contract and the NHS Payment Scheme
- Advanced knowledge of the NHS internal market, including coding and counting of patient care
Desirable
- Experience of working in a large complex organisation
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development in leadership skills
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal presentation skills. Confidence in making presentations and public speaking
- Numerate, with an in-depth understanding of NHS financial issues relating to funding policy
- Excellent written skills - able to produce reports, business plans and strategic cases without supervision and able to influence their agreement
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior manager experience in the NHS with demonstrable successful record in staff management
- Significant knowledge and in-depth experience of commissioning, contracting and provision of services
- Detailed knowledge of the NHS Standard Acute Contract and the NHS Payment Scheme
- Advanced knowledge of the NHS internal market, including coding and counting of patient care
Desirable
- Experience of working in a large complex organisation
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development in leadership skills
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal presentation skills. Confidence in making presentations and public speaking
- Numerate, with an in-depth understanding of NHS financial issues relating to funding policy
- Excellent written skills - able to produce reports, business plans and strategic cases without supervision and able to influence their agreement
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
