Job summary
Are you a looking for a new challenge?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Commissioning and Contract Manager to join our Care Sector Team (Care Homes and Home Care) within Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board.
The post holder will contribute to the effective operational and strategic delivery of commissioning and contracting activities on behalf of NNICB. They will be expected to make use of commissioning and contracting tools to support delivery of new and existing services.
If you are educated to degree level or have equivalent experience andare passionate about improving quality for our people, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role include:
- Lead on specific areas of care home and home care (care sector) commissioning, developing knowledge and expertise in those specific areas, ensuring value for money and that compliant services are delivered and are reflected in provider contracts.
- Be responsible for commissioning and managing the contracts with care homes and home care agencies for the provision of NHS continuing healthcare and the health component of joint funded care packages. This involves working collaboratively with the local authority on the procurement and contracting arrangements.
- Support the delivery of the ICB systems commissioning intentions through the planning, negotiation, and performance management of contracts. The contracts will secure agreement to service innovation and reform and the adoption of best practice to deliver good patient experience, outcomes and value for money.
- Establish and maintain constructive commercial relationships with providers with a systematic and proactive approach to the monitoring of contracts and the management of contract compliance and delivery of service standards with a prompt resolution of contractual and customer service issues.
- Ensure a responsive and person-centered approach to the commissioning and contracting of care sector services.
About us
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.
We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).
The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, pleas read the attached job description and person specification document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, pleas read the attached job description and person specification document.
Person Specification
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality; promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work.
- Consistently works in line with ICB values.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves.
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Good analytical skills with the capability to analyse data from varying sources and use to make informed decisions.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
- Ability to work without supervision, often working under pressure to tight and often changing timescales.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, presentation and data-entry skills, capable of constructing and delivering clear and precise information to staff.
- Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence.
- Effective team working.
- Professional, calm and efficient manner with the ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
- Negotiation, networking and persuasive skills.
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in or with the NHS.
- Experience in contract management, particularly performance management and quality assurance.
- Knowledge/ experience of NHS commissioning, or transformation, or providing perinatal health services.
- Experience of managing projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, closure & benefits realization.
- Significant experience chairing, note taking and facilitating meetings internally and externally.
- Knowledge of health and social care issues.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
Person Specification
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality; promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work.
- Consistently works in line with ICB values.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves.
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Good analytical skills with the capability to analyse data from varying sources and use to make informed decisions.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
- Ability to work without supervision, often working under pressure to tight and often changing timescales.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, presentation and data-entry skills, capable of constructing and delivering clear and precise information to staff.
- Very high level of computer literacy & technical competence.
- Effective team working.
- Professional, calm and efficient manner with the ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
- Negotiation, networking and persuasive skills.
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in or with the NHS.
- Experience in contract management, particularly performance management and quality assurance.
- Knowledge/ experience of NHS commissioning, or transformation, or providing perinatal health services.
- Experience of managing projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, closure & benefits realization.
- Significant experience chairing, note taking and facilitating meetings internally and externally.
- Knowledge of health and social care issues.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
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.
