Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Contract Support officer
Band 6
Job overview
To provide support to the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust contracting and finance team by supporting the Data Challenges and Individual funding request application processes. In addition, the job holder will support the team with excellent Excel skills and other data management support.
The main purpose of the role is to provide an analysis and support function to the trust contract team who manage the clinical contract portfolio for the Trust.
Main duties of the job
- To manage the contract challenges process working to a departmental and National monthly timetable
- Manage the recording and process of funding requests relating to the latest national and local guidance.
- Manipulate data in excel and other IT systems to produce financial and performance reports as required. Demonstrate sufficient IT skills to be able to write macros and continue to develop electronic data manipulation capabilities for the benefit of the department
- Work with the finance, operations and information teams to ensure that all opportunities for income gain through improvement of information: capture, coding and reporting are managed and delivered
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DIMENSIONS OF JOB:
To provide support to the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust contracting and finance team by supporting the Data Challenges and Individual funding request application processes. In addition, the job holder will support the team with excellent Excel skills and other data management support.
PURPOSE OF JOB:
To provide an analysis and support function to the trust contract team who manage the clinical contract portfolio for the Trust.
NB: This post is based primarily at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot although some cross site working will be required.
KEY TASKS & Responsibilities:
Contract challenges process
- To manage the contract challenges process working to a departmental and National monthly timetable
- Actively involved in investigating each query, collating, and returning the results in the agreed format.
- Dealing with changes in process or procedure which may come from internal sources or external organisations.
- Tracking all queries through to resolution and taking ownership of issues where possible
Individual Funding Request process
- Undertake impact analyses of changes to Trust IFR and data challenge processes or to proposed commissioning changes, including activity and financial modelling and scenario planning. This will require the post holder to compare and evaluate the activity and financial impact of a range of complex options, and to exercise their own judgement in making recommendations for action which will have an impact upon the Trust's bottom line.
- Manage the recording and process of funding requests relating to the latest national and local guidance.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of knowledge of contracting and/or finance issues derived from working in a financial environment
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NHS contracting and finance
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable, relevant 2 years' NHS experience within a financial/contracting environment or similar
- Demonstrable knowledge of NHS commissioning arrangements MS Office
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge of Excel and the ability to manipulate data Excellent communicator, both written and orally Numerate and accurate
- Strong IT skills, incorporating the input of financial data, creation, and manipulation of spread sheet
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Johnson
- Job title
- Senior Contracts Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07393753270
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