Job summary
Are you a very experienced NHS contract or commissioning manager looking for a new challenge? The University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Group is seeking a dynamic Group Head of Commissioning and Contracting who will be responsible for the Group portfolio of healthcare contracts, including those held as Lead Provider for the Elective Care Collaborative.
WHO WE ARE:
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH) and Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH) formed a hospital Group; University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group (UHN). You will work as the Group Head of Commissioning and Contracting and report to the Group Director of Integration and Partnerships. You will lead an established team of contract management professionals who work across both Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting time to join a team that are striving to deliver integrated care and strong partnerships both across the Group and the system, joining up pathways of care across organisational boundaries.
The Group Head of Commissioning will take overall responsibility for the commissioning and contracting function within the Group, providing specialist expertise and leadership for significant workstreams, including the development of the commissioning and contracting framework for the Elective Care Collaborative on behalf of the Group. Group Head of Commissioning lead an existing team to support operational and clinical teams in the specification of services, works with governance, procurement, finance and quality teams to ensure the effective contracting for services, and establishes robust performance, quality and contract management arrangements for services.
About us
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey.Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
Compassion
Respect
Integrity
Courageous
Accountable
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for someone who can lead the team as we grow and develop new ways of working, new partnerships, and new approaches to the commissioning and contracting of services for our local population.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for someone who can lead the team as we grow and develop new ways of working, new partnerships, and new approaches to the commissioning and contracting of services for our local population.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in commissioning or contracting in a complex NHS environment
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Qualifications in managing/delivering projects and programmes, for example Prince2 Practitioner
Key Competencies
Essential
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- Personal values aligned to the Group's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage
- Highly motivated, hard-working, self-confident, robust and resilient individual with drive and determination to deliver the Group strategic and clinical objectives and the Elective Care Collaborative agenda. Ability to work through ambiguity to create certainty
- Able to establish credibility and build strong relationships working with different professional groups to deliver collaborative solutions
- Ability to demonstrate a coaching style and track record of developing a team
- High levels of emotional intelligence/self-awareness with the ability to keep calm in challenging situations. Able to perform confidently in highly pressured situations
- Integrity and professionalism - politically astute and able to respond to competing priorities in a large complex organisation
- Ability to show personal resilience and deal with ambiguity
- Commitment to personal development and development of staff
- Confident, challenging and questioning and prepared to challenge traditional views using empathy, evidence and curiosity. Can constructively challenge and effectively manage conflict to reach a positive conclusion
- Ability to travel between the Kettering and Northampton Hospital sites and to other sites across the system and region as required
Experience
Essential
- At least five years' experience in a commissioning and contracting role which includes a substantial amount of time within the NHS.
- Demonstrable experience of all stages on the commissioning and contracting cycle, including but not limited to service definition, definition of outcomes, activity planning, procurement, contract negotiation, management of contract documentation, and contract performance management
- Proven track record and significant experience of successful working with staff and stakeholders
- Experience of leading and motivating teams to deliver to a high standard whilst under pressure and when facing changing circumstances.
Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of bidding, tendering and contracting
- Demonstrate effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options, coupled with the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Proven ability to deliver sustainable developmental change rather than just undertaking incremental change.
- Knowledge and clear understanding of the background to, and aims of current healthcare policy in the NHS, with experience of interpreting and applying national guidance across the local health economy.
- Able to empathise and build rapport with clinicians, front-line staff, managers and others, to influence, motivate and engage them into adopting new ways of working to achieve contracted outcomes.
- Demonstrates authoritative and democratic leadership encompassing energy and involvement in planning and managing change
- Effective and adaptable interpersonal and influencing strategies including the ability to persuade others with personal conviction and facts
- Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change.
- Strength of character to constructively challenge providers where areas are not delivering against expected outcomes
- Knowledge and clear understanding of the background to, and aims of current healthcare policy in the NHS, with experience of interpreting and applying national guidance across the local health economy
- Communicate effectively to a range of groups and individuals in both verbal and written form.
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, with ability to manage varying levels of understanding.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in commissioning or contracting in a complex NHS environment
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Qualifications in managing/delivering projects and programmes, for example Prince2 Practitioner
Key Competencies
Essential
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- Personal values aligned to the Group's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage
- Highly motivated, hard-working, self-confident, robust and resilient individual with drive and determination to deliver the Group strategic and clinical objectives and the Elective Care Collaborative agenda. Ability to work through ambiguity to create certainty
- Able to establish credibility and build strong relationships working with different professional groups to deliver collaborative solutions
- Ability to demonstrate a coaching style and track record of developing a team
- High levels of emotional intelligence/self-awareness with the ability to keep calm in challenging situations. Able to perform confidently in highly pressured situations
- Integrity and professionalism - politically astute and able to respond to competing priorities in a large complex organisation
- Ability to show personal resilience and deal with ambiguity
- Commitment to personal development and development of staff
- Confident, challenging and questioning and prepared to challenge traditional views using empathy, evidence and curiosity. Can constructively challenge and effectively manage conflict to reach a positive conclusion
- Ability to travel between the Kettering and Northampton Hospital sites and to other sites across the system and region as required
Experience
Essential
- At least five years' experience in a commissioning and contracting role which includes a substantial amount of time within the NHS.
- Demonstrable experience of all stages on the commissioning and contracting cycle, including but not limited to service definition, definition of outcomes, activity planning, procurement, contract negotiation, management of contract documentation, and contract performance management
- Proven track record and significant experience of successful working with staff and stakeholders
- Experience of leading and motivating teams to deliver to a high standard whilst under pressure and when facing changing circumstances.
Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of bidding, tendering and contracting
- Demonstrate effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options, coupled with the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Proven ability to deliver sustainable developmental change rather than just undertaking incremental change.
- Knowledge and clear understanding of the background to, and aims of current healthcare policy in the NHS, with experience of interpreting and applying national guidance across the local health economy.
- Able to empathise and build rapport with clinicians, front-line staff, managers and others, to influence, motivate and engage them into adopting new ways of working to achieve contracted outcomes.
- Demonstrates authoritative and democratic leadership encompassing energy and involvement in planning and managing change
- Effective and adaptable interpersonal and influencing strategies including the ability to persuade others with personal conviction and facts
- Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change.
- Strength of character to constructively challenge providers where areas are not delivering against expected outcomes
- Knowledge and clear understanding of the background to, and aims of current healthcare policy in the NHS, with experience of interpreting and applying national guidance across the local health economy
- Communicate effectively to a range of groups and individuals in both verbal and written form.
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, with ability to manage varying levels of understanding.
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).
