Job summary
- Main area
- Commissioning
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 144-JW03-COO-25
- Employer
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS Devon ICB, Aperture House
- Town
- Exeter
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Commissioning & Delivery Senior Manager
Band 8b
Job overview
Commissioning and Delivery Senior Manager, Band 8b, substantive
Are you passionate about delivering transformational change and improving healthcare services? NHS Devon Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking a Commissioning and Delivery Senior Manager to join our commissioning and delivery unit..
As part of the Devon Commissioning and Delivery Unit, we are bringing portfolios together to create a single, cohesive team that fosters integration and collaboration across the system. This is an exciting time to join us as we reshape how we work to meet the evolving needs of our communities. In this pivotal role, you will lead the commissioning and delivery of healthcare services across your assigned portfolio, ensuring alignment with the ICB’s strategic priorities. You will drive service transformation and innovation, identifying opportunities to redesign services that improve outcomes and efficiency. Working as part of the new approach to Commissioning and Delivery you will play a key role in embedding a collaborative approach across portfolios, building strong relationships with system partners, including providers, local authorities, and voluntary organisations.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include managing complex programmes and projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard. You will use data, insights, and evidence to inform commissioning decisions and you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of the people of Devon. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced leader with a proven track record of delivering complex programmes, driving system-wide collaboration, and achieving measurable improvements in health outcomes. You should have excellent stakeholder engagement skills, strong project and programme management capabilities, and the ability to think strategically and develop innovative solutions.
If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and help shape the future of healthcare in Devon, we would love to hear from you. For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact James Wenman, Deputy Director for Urgent and Community Care via [email protected]
Working for our organisation
NHS Devon Integrated Care System
As an Integrated Care System (ICS), we recognise now more than ever that we can only provide the care that people really need by working together. Together for Devon therefore represents a partnership where health and care services work together with local communities to improve peoples health, wellbeing and care. It aims to transform health and care services so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.
Our vision is simple: equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives. To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including: Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.
About NHS Devon
As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve peoples health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money. The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve peoples lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.
For more information, visit our website www.onedevon.org.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between provider organisations, NHS England and Improvement and individual care organisations.
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
Analytical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
Management Skills
Essential criteria
- Abilities for financial and staff management.
Autonomy / Freedom to Act
Essential criteria
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
Equality & Diversity
Essential criteria
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
Financial & Physical Resources
Essential criteria
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Other
Essential criteria
- Team working skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Wenman
- Job title
- Deputy Director for Urgent and Community Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
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