Contracting & Delivery Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsible for negotiation and performance management of all lead and associate contracts and service Improvement for Rotherham place including primary care.

Responsible for compiling long term project plans for service improvement objectives, ensuring implementation, milestones, delivery and improvement outcomes are achieved.

Responsible for the Individual Funding Request process for Rotherham (linking with the central decision making team)

Responsible for budgetary management of contracting and service improvement allocations.

Interpret and act on national guidance and applicable to ICB business.

To conduct themselves in accordance with the ICBs staff values.

Develops Rotherham wide service improvement and policies in in relation to Rotherham contracting and service improvement across all providers.

Setting and holding budgets for the full range of Rotherham contracts across all providers.

Responsible for performance management information systems for contracting and service improvement across primary and secondary care. To deliver effective contract monitoring, providing assurance of quality and actively performance managing contracts.

To lead on the contract and performance management of the portfolio of Local Enhanced Services, National Enhanced Services and Designated Enhanced Services across primary care in Rotherham. This will include creating service specifications for new and existing contracts. The post holder will manage all aspects of these contracted services for the ICB (Rotherham) to ensure there is no interruption to patient care, and that primary care staff have the training and equipment contractually needed. This could involve the organisation and delivery of training events for primary care staff.

Person Specification

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Well-developed data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, with good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Clear communicator with excellent written and presentations skills.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Advanced working knowledge and proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and internet use).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives.
• Able to deal with challenging people and to cope with confidential and sensitive information.

Desirable

• Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools.

Attributes

Essential

• Clear communicator with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
• Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
• Compassionate leader.
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of NHS commissioning data flows; national tariffs and the development of local tariffs to facilitate pathway redesign.
• Knowledge of contract procedures, financial aspects of NHS legislation and NHS finance policies.
• Knowledge of the commissioning function including planning, assessment of needs, service development/implementation, contracting, performance management/service improvement across health and social care
• Experience of working in commissioning across health and social care
• Experience in managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Experience of managing budgets.
• Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
• Experience of managing risks, identifying issues and reporting.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Understanding of public sector contracting (NHS/Social Care).
• Previous experience in similar role in a healthcare or public sector environment.

Desirable

• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
• Experience of working in portfolio and/or programme management environment.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma or equivalent level in project management.
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Programme and Project management qualification (e.g. Prince2 Practitioner; Agile Project Management Practitioner or APM qualification) or equivalent experience.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Nhs Rotherham

Moorhead Way

Bramley

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S66 1YY

Employer's website

https://southyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)