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Job overview

Are you a dynamic professional with a proactive approach and a passion for driving service change and transforming care pathways for children and young people? Join us as the Commissioning Lead for children's services. In this pivotal role, you will shape the future of healthcare for young people by collaborating with secondary care providers, community service providers, GP practices, the independent sector, and other health and social care providers/commissioners to implement transformative service changes.

You will lead and manage programmes within the children and young people’s system transformation, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective services. Your role includes collaborating with stakeholders to support service change implementation and transforming care pathways. Additionally, you will optimise resources through financial and activity modelling and monitoring.

This position offers impactful work, allowing you to make a real difference in children's healthcare services. You will develop subject matter expertise and technical skills while working in a collaborative environment with a dedicated team committed to driving positive change. At the forefront of healthcare service development and transformation, you will nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, including national networks.

Main duties of the job

The role supports the business in driving transformation for children and young people services as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service development.

 

The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop strong service delivery.

 

This role is responsible for setting up, management and delivery of projects within the organisations and the wider ICS transformation programmes.

 

The post holder will be the commissioning lead for designated areas of children’s commissioning.

 

The post holder will work closely with the Local Authorities, community service providers, secondary care providers, NHS England and other health and social care providers/commissioners to support implementation of service change.

 

The role will ensure optimum use of resources, including financial and activity modelling and monitoring.

 

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 on-going basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Commissioning team and the Integrated Care Board (ICB).

Working for our organisation

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB is responsible for the healthcare of a population of just over one million people. Our role involves deciding what services are needed for our diverse local populations, ensuring that they are provided and checking that they are delivering what's needed.

The ICB is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

As a strategic commissioner, we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high-quality services. We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed to looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choices. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.