Job summary
This is an important role within the commissioning and contracting function at Rotherham place. Reporting to Anna Clack the post will primarily support the Acute Trust portfolio delivering contracting and procurement processes and requirements.
We are ideally looking for someone with prior NHS experience of working in contracting and be familiar with the NHS Standard contract. Knowledge of healthcare services and/or arranging clinical contracts is also a preference.
Communication and relationships
- Identify key stakeholders and develop effectiverelationships, supporting collaborative arrangements and negotiations with providers, as part of the transformation, delivery and improvement function.
- Manage and advise multiple stakeholders and customers oncomplex issues including delivery ofstrategy.
- Producematerialforandpresentcomplexpresentations to large groupswhichareengaging, influentialandeffectiveindeliveringkeymessages,thecontentofwhichmayinclude highly complex technical, contentious or very sensitiveinformation.
- Attend meetings as appropriate including Boards,Project/Performance Meetings, Team meetings and StakeholderGroups.
- Effectively communicate project/ contract /service expectations to team membersand stakeholders in a timely and clearfashion.
- Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on ownportfolio areas.
Main duties of the job
Analytical and judgement
- Support the identification and monitoring of risk and issues adapting as needed whilst considering a range of comparable options/solutions that can inform the future commissioning of services.
- Ensure that appropriate methods are applied for displaying a wide variety of data in a variety of formats.
- Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
- Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposal, requirement documentation and presentations on projects/services/contracts.
- Using autonomous judgement and initiative, where there may be conflicting views, to respond to communications on complex issues and draft non- standard responses that may include the analysis of technical information.
Planning and organisation
- To support the development and implementation of new/existing services, including planning and needs assessment, development/review of service specifications, participating in the procurement process, issuing contractual documentation, supporting mobilisation and ongoing contract management including improvement and performance of services.
About us
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health
and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our four places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the
strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local
communities to deliver our four key aims of 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.
Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader
health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South
Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the
Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South
Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care
services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP
practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working
across nine NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000
voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work
alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE
partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider
determinants of health in South Yorkshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide the organisation with expert support across all contracting areas. This will include support and advice regarding transformational approaches to contracting, recognising changes in legislation which support transformation and delivery programmes.
- Be responsible for a wide portfolio of contracts (including the Acute Contract)
- Responsible for negotiation and performance management of all lead contracts
- To deliver effective contract monitoring, providing assurance of quality and actively performance managing contracts.
- Support the contractual requirements across providers in line with national requirements and legislation
- Responsible for budgetary management of contracting and service improvement allocations.
- Establish and develop systems for robust analysis of performance to support transformation, delivery and integration, ensuring that material issues are understood, and actions identified, in order to ensure care is provided at the highest quality within resources available.
- Initiate action plans and engage clinical and professional leadership to drive robust, sustainable services.
- Investigate and advise on highly complex contractual issues and provide corporate reports and business planning advice in this area.
- Interpret and act on national guidance and applicable to ICB business.
- To conduct themselves in accordance with the ICBs staff values.
The role will also support the delivery of strategic developments and projects including any associated project plans, reviewing service specifications and act as a key contact for a number of services/providers across health and care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide the organisation with expert support across all contracting areas. This will include support and advice regarding transformational approaches to contracting, recognising changes in legislation which support transformation and delivery programmes.
- Be responsible for a wide portfolio of contracts (including the Acute Contract)
- Responsible for negotiation and performance management of all lead contracts
- To deliver effective contract monitoring, providing assurance of quality and actively performance managing contracts.
- Support the contractual requirements across providers in line with national requirements and legislation
- Responsible for budgetary management of contracting and service improvement allocations.
- Establish and develop systems for robust analysis of performance to support transformation, delivery and integration, ensuring that material issues are understood, and actions identified, in order to ensure care is provided at the highest quality within resources available.
- Initiate action plans and engage clinical and professional leadership to drive robust, sustainable services.
- Investigate and advise on highly complex contractual issues and provide corporate reports and business planning advice in this area.
- Interpret and act on national guidance and applicable to ICB business.
- To conduct themselves in accordance with the ICBs staff values.
The role will also support the delivery of strategic developments and projects including any associated project plans, reviewing service specifications and act as a key contact for a number of services/providers across health and care.
Person Specification
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.
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.
Experience
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.
- Understanding of public sector contracting (NHS/Social Care).
- Previous experience in similar role in a healthcare or public sector environment.
Desirable
- Experience of managing a team
- 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.
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.
Person Specification
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.
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.
Experience
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.
- Understanding of public sector contracting (NHS/Social Care).
- Previous experience in similar role in a healthcare or public sector environment.
Desirable
- Experience of managing a team
- 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.
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.
Additional information
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