Director of Commercial - Band 9

Job description

Job responsibilities

ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.

The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition.

Our Commercial team sits within the Finance and Estates Directorate of our ICB and the post holder will lead its vision for the future. Working with all system partners we aim to deliver financial sustainability, providing, transparency, efficiency, and value for money for our population.

Our multidisciplinary team looks after all aspects of contracting and finance for the services we plan and buy for our population, from planning to procurement and contracting through to monitoring and reporting. This role will be an instrumental part in delivering our ambition as part of the wider Finance and Estates Directorate. We want to be able to provide our population and our staff with the confidence that resources are being used transparently, supporting the benefit of population health improvement and fulfilling our statutory obligations and duties.

The post holder will lead two teams with the support from Deputy Directors in each area. Our financial performance, analytics and reporting, will be a hub for the exciting developments in train. The team will be responsible for empowering our system through future focused reporting and analytics. Working to support the building blocks required for effective stewardship within the system, the team will also face into the System PMO and System Costing Hub, supporting our significant efficiency and productivity agenda. The team will be instrumental in delivering the system plans and working across the whole commercial team who will be supporting the organisation to bring them to reality. Our Operations team is responsible for delivering the safe establishment, management, monitoring and reporting of all arrangements around the services we require for our population. These teams are multidisciplinary and as such you will be confident in your ability to lead multi-professional technical experts, drawing on the skills within the team and leading the cohesion of the function.

By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital. For this, we need to be able to effectively anticipate and maximise revenue and capital resources, aligning outgoings within the context of our System Financial Strategy and Financial Sustainability Plan.

Developing an understanding of our system cost base and the behaviours of those costs will support us to utilise our system pound to best effect. We want to ensure value for money across the whole system by supporting our Integrated Care Partnership in the establishment and management of integrated fund arrangements, (such as the Better Care Fund) at place and across Health and Wellbeing Boards.

Every member of the Finance and Estates Directorate is expected to demonstrate the values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Supporting openness, transparency and a commitment to continued development and learning.

The Director of Commercial will play a pivotal role in ensuring the ICS can discharge its four key purposes:

• improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
• tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
• enhance productivity and value for money
• help the NHS support broader social and economic development

In addition, the post holder will be key in ensuring that the ICB realises its ambition of making the system distinctive, attractive and successful.

The post holder will support the Executive Director of Finance and Estates and the CEO in developing and articulating strategic direction, providing a compelling vision for the ICS and has a broad role in supporting the ICS strategic ambitions to:

• Reduce health inequalities
• Create opportunities for our residents
• Support health and wellbeing
• Bring care closer to home where safe and possible
• Transform and improve our services

The post holder will be expected to exemplify an inclusive and collaborative approach in the ICS. This will include:

• Demonstrating high quality leadership and supporting clinical and professional leaders across the ICS to also demonstrate the highest standards of leadership through their conduct.
• Leading by example and securing engagement with residents and partners as an integral part of all decision making so that it is embedded as a core value of the partnership.
• Aiming for excellence in everything we do, by influencing, coaching and challenging poor delivery to ensure high standards are achieved for the local population.
• Ensuring delivery for local residents is a principle upheld across the partnership, placing aside personal or organisational agendas for a more collaborative approach.
• Maintaining the highest standards of public accountability for safety, quality, and our use of resources.

All Directors have a collective responsibility for working together to ensure the organisation is well led, successful and managerially supported, promoting integration and delivery

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As Commercial Director

• Provide leadership and responsibility for the delivery of the ICB commercial function.
• Provide expert finance advice to ICB/ICS Executive
• Provide leadership in the development of all strategies and in particular lead on the Procurement and Contracting strategy, working with regulators and key negotiating partners.
• Provide leadership and responsibility for the delivery of critical strategic programmes as prioritised by the ICB/ ICS and defined by the Executive Director of Finance and Estates
• Ensure the delivery of the system vision to integrate system functions, driving efficiency and a common understanding across finance teams.
• Provide Strategic advice and leadership in contract negotiations with partners.
• Seek innovation in our contract arrangements, facilitating the development of provider collaborative contract arrangements. Harmonising and coaching to achieve the right objectives for our population.
• Building and nurturing strong system relationships across peers to support the review and assurance of business cases for investment and efficiency. Ensuring that timely system governance is in place and streamlining where necessary.
• Ensuring the effective management of procurement arrangements.
• Embedding legislative and process changes such as the Provider Selection Regime.
• Leading the safe transition of Specialist Commissioning for our residents during the shadow year and onward implementation. This will require attendance at regional and national meetings working across ICBs to ensure joint arrangements are established where necessary.
• Providing professional advice and leadership across contracting governance and commercial arrangements.
• Act as Deputy SIRO

As a Leader aligned to support the Alliance Directors and Stewards Groups

• Contribute to the Alliance and Stewardship objectives including:

- Promoting the success and culture of the overarching ambition.-Supporting the strategic direction.

- Ensuring the commercial team continue to support arrangements which enhance, Alliances and Stewardship, through effective mechanisms and processes, working to problem solve and support.

- Holding to account Alliances and Stewardship groups to deliver agreed strategic objectives and performance as expected within System agreed plans;

- Ensuring delivery of targets as expected within System agreed plans.

- Identifying and managing risks within the system.

- Providing leadership in support of the NHS Alliance Management team. Actively taking part in and advising on key business decisions.

- Engaging clinicians and public in decisions relating to use of resources (in line with the System Financial Framework) with the ambition of improving population health.

- Supporting the design and facilitating delivery of improvement measures (such as financial & operational) within service lines which have been allocated to Alliances and Stewardship groups.

- Contributing and supporting continual improvement and learning approaches.

- Attendance at relevant system meetings and other key forum.

Please see attached Job Description for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant Masters degree or extensive knowledge, skills and experience to equivalent level
• Demonstrable commitment to continued professional development

Partnership Working / Leadership Management

Essential

• Can demonstrate significant partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to effect population-based solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
• Champions the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the organisation
• Challenges at every level where these principles are at risk of not being upheld
• Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism
• Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Highly developed written and verbal communications skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to influence and negotiate with a wide range of partners across a wide range of media

Knowledge / understanding

Essential

• In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work
• An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
• Demonstrable knowledge of the local health and care system and the requirements of the population

Skills

Essential

• Able to lead the development of policy and strategy to enhance relevant service
• Able to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues and often to changing timescales
• Able to be assertive in negotiation on difficult and controversial issues such as performance and change

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board

Address

Phoenix House

Christopher Martin Road

Basildon

Essex

SS14 3HG

Employer's website

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