Job summary
- Main area
- Contracts Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-SE-6602527-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Explorer House
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Public Health Contracts Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Hampshire and Thames Valley Public Health Commissioning Team in the South East Region is looking for a contract manager to join our team. Our team’s purpose is to protect the health of our population by ensuring that high quality, cost effective nationally-prescribed screening and immunisation programmes are available and accessible to the whole eligible population. We are responsible for the local commissioning and transformation of these national programmes.
This role will be one of two contract managers who jointly lead on all aspects of contract management for the team, building effective supplier relationships across the acute, community and independent sectors, working closely with specialised commissioning colleagues and PH colleagues in the wider region. The role plays an important part in ensuring national standards are met through regular contract monitoring and the use of contractual levers where necessary. The postholder will ensure service requirements are enshrined in contracts, contract values and payment mechanisms agreed, and providers are paid correctly.
There will be opportunities within the role to lead specific projects and develop skills in project management and commissioning.
Main duties of the job
Duties of this role will include:
· Preparing and managing the annual contracting round
· Monitoring contract performance and taking action as appropriate to ensure improvement
· Developing working relationships across NHSE, and with providers and other key stakeholders to ensure that commissioned services are safe, effective, of good quality and deliver value for money
· Co-ordinating and contributing to the procurement, negotiation and agreement of contracts
· Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making
Working for our organisation
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
The post holder will be a home based worker. The team meets face-to-face mainly in Southampton, with occasional travel to Oxford and London as well as to meetings with stakeholders in a variety of locations across Hampshire and Thames Valley.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description and Person Specification document for detailed description of the role and key responsibilities.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- educated to post-graduate degree level or equivalent level
- qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- experience of contract/supplier management, ideally in relation to clinical services within an NHS setting
- experience of procurement processes for provision of healthcare services
- demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and/or challenging environments
Desirable criteria
- working knowledge of primary care contractual frameworks and NHS standard contract experience of line management
- experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
Skills, Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills
- ability to negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
- numerate and able to understand intricate financial issues combined with good analytical skills
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matt Hardy
- Job title
- Senior Commissioning Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07872814935
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