Job vacancy: Head of Contracts, Partnerships & Business Development, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Milton Keynes

Job summary

Main area

Business

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Contract

Secondment: 6 months (Band 8B - Band 8C can be considered depending on experience)

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (hybrid working office and home working)

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Employer: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Milton Keynes HQ
Town: Milton Keynes
Salary: £70,417 - £81,138 p.a
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/07/2024 23:59
Interview date: 02/08/2024

Head of Contracts, Partnerships & Business Development

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Stakeholders and Partnerships

Develop a comprehensive network of stakeholder and partnership relationships
Develop a robust stakeholder management strategy in place which ensures:
Comprehensive stakeholder analysis – the identification and engagement of key stakeholders both within and outside the organisation, securing involvement and commitment to local community, mental health and specialist services.
- Ensure that any transformational changes to ways of working are undertaken with the identified stakeholders and reflect pathways across the health economy
- Strong and robust relationships are in place to underpin all contractual discussions.

Transformation

Work across the clinical services to support a broad range of transformation projects that are linked closely to commissioning intentions.
- Development and maintenance of the governance structure for the programme
- Establish a rolling programme of reporting to the programme board
- Provide the leadership and line management to the transformation managers
- Maintain the programme risk and issues logs – report significant variances to the Divisional Management Team
- Manage external consultant support that may be needed for specific projects.

New Business and Tender Management

- Working closely with the contract negotiation team the post holder will provide the local business support for all contracts as required
- Ensure all contracts are based on robust specifications that reflect realistic deliverables
- Work with the leadership team to ensure delivery of both CIP and QIPP schemes as agreed through contracts.
- Working closely with the commercial team at Trust HQ, horizon scan for new business opportunities and manage a tender pipeline for the Division.
- Work closely with services to support them with new business opportunities or service developments.
- Explore opportunities for providing temporary solutions to service and commissioning priorities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Business Management in health or care

Desirable criteria

Project management qualification
MSc/MA relevant to post

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant experience managing contracts
Experience running complex projects
Working with commissioners

Desirable criteria

Supervising staff

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.