Commissioning Manager x2

NHS Sussex ICB

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Job summary

Do you want to be a part of significant changes and improvements to mental health services across West Sussex? If so, we want to hear from you!

As a fixed term appointment until March 2024, this would be a great development or secondment opportunity.

About us

We are a friendly mental health commissioning team, responsible for commissioning mental health services for adults in West Sussex. The team forms part of the Sussex-wide joint commissioning unit with our local authority partners, and works closely with other partner organisations, including the voluntary sector and primary care. We are recruiting two new posts which will focus on the development and implementation of the Community Transformation Programme.

Watch a short animation from NHS England which describes the community mental health transformation: https://youtu.be/8x-WxYcSBo8

Main duties of the job

The key focus of the role is to support the transformation programme to develop multi-agency mental health services in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) ensuring that the portfolio of projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively through collaborative and cohesive working arrangements. The post holder will be involved in the monitoring and implementation of the transformation programme as well as its evaluation, including analysis of complex information and stakeholder management.

The Sussex Mental Health Collaborative Transformation Plan is our local blueprint to support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) requirements/deliverables for mental health to deliver the most ambitious transformation of mental health provision, at the local level.

You will be based primarily in West Sussex and delivery will be focused in that area, but as part of the Sussex wide mental health commissioning team there will also be opportunities to work with colleagues across the county. The team work flexibly, combining working from home with working from the office in Worthing, as well as visiting Primary Care Networks across West Sussex.

About us

NHS Sussex ICB ambition is to create an inclusive working environment which reflects our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity for all groups. We are particularly under-represented in staff from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and disabled communities and actively encourage and welcome applications from these communities. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.

We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scwcsu.recruit@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

Date posted

28 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

D9146-ICB-6468HR

Job locations

Wicker House

High Street

Worthing

BN11 1DJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

A key role in the Mental Health Commissioning Team structure, this role will support the Senior Commissioning Managers in the West Sussex Team to deliver against key priorities and programmes to achieve the Sussex ICB Community Transformation Delivery Plan for mental health as part of the Long-Term Plan for Mental Health.

The post holder will work with the team to ensure that their programme of work streams is planned and managed effectively and will both support and take a lead in the development and implementation of a new multi-agency community-based model of care for mental health. The key focus of the role is to take a lead on this transformation programme to develop integrated mental health services in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) ensuring that the portfolio of projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.

The role will be working with the Teams business support function, including developing and managing the teams business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management. The post holder will support the monitoring and implementation of the adult mental health transformation programme as well as its evaluation by providing high quality analysis of complex information and stakeholder management.

It is expected that the post holder will work in a matrix way across all domains in the team; supporting the senior commissioning managers and the wider team to deliver system and population wide change:

The role will support and as required, deputise for the Senior Commissioning Managers.

Be a team player, to support colleagues in a flexible way by sharing workloads and offering challenge, advice and guidance as required.

Develop good relationships across health and social care ensuring all parties input into and deliver change.

Take a lead on a group of commissioned services across health and social care supporting the monitoring and budget management of these and embedding them in effective pathways.

The role will support the development of individually focussed services, predominantly across the adult pathway as per the requirement of the specific ICB team. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.

The post holder will be required to:

Carry out Project Management and contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas and a portfolio of services and contracts where agreed.

Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested.

To manage workload and time management effectively to ensure the smooth running of the team plans and objectives.

Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function and work across the ICB lead areas to support the wider directorate work as required.

Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions. To investigate findings and lessons learnt to improve team working.

Support risk management and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes.

Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.

Support evaluation of projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.

Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.

Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and work stream success.

Contribute to short, medium and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.

Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to, service or initiative management.

Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.

Have a strong in-person presence as required, across our Primary Care Networks and other partner organisations

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A key role in the Mental Health Commissioning Team structure, this role will support the Senior Commissioning Managers in the West Sussex Team to deliver against key priorities and programmes to achieve the Sussex ICB Community Transformation Delivery Plan for mental health as part of the Long-Term Plan for Mental Health.

The post holder will work with the team to ensure that their programme of work streams is planned and managed effectively and will both support and take a lead in the development and implementation of a new multi-agency community-based model of care for mental health. The key focus of the role is to take a lead on this transformation programme to develop integrated mental health services in Primary Care Networks (PCNs) ensuring that the portfolio of projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.

The role will be working with the Teams business support function, including developing and managing the teams business plan, progress and reporting risk and issue management. The post holder will support the monitoring and implementation of the adult mental health transformation programme as well as its evaluation by providing high quality analysis of complex information and stakeholder management.

It is expected that the post holder will work in a matrix way across all domains in the team; supporting the senior commissioning managers and the wider team to deliver system and population wide change:

The role will support and as required, deputise for the Senior Commissioning Managers.

Be a team player, to support colleagues in a flexible way by sharing workloads and offering challenge, advice and guidance as required.

Develop good relationships across health and social care ensuring all parties input into and deliver change.

Take a lead on a group of commissioned services across health and social care supporting the monitoring and budget management of these and embedding them in effective pathways.

The role will support the development of individually focussed services, predominantly across the adult pathway as per the requirement of the specific ICB team. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.

The post holder will be required to:

Carry out Project Management and contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas and a portfolio of services and contracts where agreed.

Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested.

To manage workload and time management effectively to ensure the smooth running of the team plans and objectives.

Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function and work across the ICB lead areas to support the wider directorate work as required.

Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions. To investigate findings and lessons learnt to improve team working.

Support risk management and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes.

Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.

Support evaluation of projects/function within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.

Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.

Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and work stream success.

Contribute to short, medium and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.

Contribute to the review and development of existing information management systems and contribute to the development of an integrated approach to, service or initiative management.

Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.

Have a strong in-person presence as required, across our Primary Care Networks and other partner organisations

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.

Desirable

  • Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, provider and commissioning organisations.
  • Member of relevant professional body

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
  • Understanding Public Sector.
  • Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
  • Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.

Desirable

  • Demonstrable experience of working in Health Environment.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.

Desirable

  • Must be able to provide and receive 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.
  • Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.

Desirable

  • Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, provider and commissioning organisations.
  • Member of relevant professional body

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
  • Understanding Public Sector.
  • Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
  • Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.

Desirable

  • Demonstrable experience of working in Health Environment.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.

Desirable

  • Must be able to provide and receive 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.
  • Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Sussex ICB

Address

Wicker House

High Street

Worthing

BN11 1DJ


Employer's website

https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Sussex ICB

Address

Wicker House

High Street

Worthing

BN11 1DJ


Employer's website

https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Phil Shackell

Phil.shackell@nhs.net

Date posted

28 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

D9146-ICB-6468HR

Job locations

Wicker House

High Street

Worthing

BN11 1DJ


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