HEAD OF PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSIONING AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role will work across the Peterborough Public Health directorate on Public Health commissioned services, working closely with the specialist subject area experts. The Head of Public Health Commissioning and Service Development will also provide commissioning leadership, expertise, governance, monitoring and support to all other public health commissioned services. They will play an active part in the delivery of services across Public Health as part of the Directorate Management Team.

This role is key to assuring appropriate governance including clinical governance, performance monitoring, review and improvement is in place for public health commissioned services. They will represent the DPH and the Consultants in Public Health as appropriate relevant committee / cabinet council meetings, wider system boards, Integrated Care System/Board, appropriate Partnership Boards, and other boards/meetings/fora as requested, relevant to the portfolio.

This role will have accountability for ensuring that robust commissioning and procurement frameworks are in place to fulfil service transformation objectives, resource needs and identify any current and future gaps/shortfalls.

The role will include working strategically and operationally with internal stakeholders and close working with the Assistant Director for Commissioning and Commercial Opportunities, the Head of Adults of Commissioning and the Head of Service Childrens Commissioning as well as other Peterborough City Council directorates. They will advise and report to relevant Joint Commissioning Boards, Adults and Health Scrutiny Committee on the developments within the service.

The role will also work strategically and operationally with key external stakeholders including Cambridgeshire County Council, Integrated Care Board, North Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Care Partnership, District Council and third sector to identify and deliver commissioning opportunities to improve physical and mental health outcomes. It will also involve engaging with local communities and service users to inform commissioning strategy and decisions

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Commissioning and Management - Extensive experience of commissioning services within local government.
• Extensive experience of managing teams within the public sector and motivating them to deliver
• Experience of performance management (including management of poor performance) and undertaking skills audits and action plans.
• Change Management -
• Experience of managing change of using management information to
• analyse and improve service performance
• Experience of influencing change and significant experience of presentation options appraisals and
• recommendations to fulfil commissioning priorities
• Experience of service change through commissioning and managing stakeholders through that change
• Experience of managing complex change involving internally departments and external organisations
• Experience of decommissioning services.
• Budget and Resource Management -
• Experience of delivering within complex, needs led budgets and prioritisation of resource allocation
• within a set of allocated service areas
• Proven track record in achieving reduce costs, savings, cost avoidances or best value for a Council
• Experience of leading or being involved in budget planning and forecasting, as well as identifying and
• delivering on savings agendas and cost avoidances.
• Experience of effectively managing resource allocation via panel processes
• Partnership Working and Collaboration -
• Experience of establishing effective working links with internal and external agencies including
• development and management of partnership boards and provider fora
• Experience of managing cross functional and/or cross organisational meetings and forums that includes
• regional and national bodies.
• Experience of leading market engagement, provider events and consultations
• Experience of working with external agencies such as regulators and unions.
• Project Management -
• Experience of successfully leading and applying project management methodologies to deliver service
• improvement and change within agreed timescales, costs, and quality targets
• Highly defined skills in setting clear priorities, identification of milestones and effective time management skills.

Qualifications

Essential

• First Degree or Equivalent Qualifications in a relevant field - Essential
• Substantial experience of commissioning within a local authority/CCG/Integrated care System in a relevant field - Essential

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Peterborough City Council

Address

Sand Martin House

Bittern Way

Fletton Quays

Peterborough

PE2 8TY

Employer's website

https://www.peterborough.gov.uk (Opens in a new tab)