Contract Information Manager - Community & MH - B8a

Job responsibilities

ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY

The Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a new organisation formed through the consolidation of three ICB areas in response to the NHSs ambition to deliver a more streamlined, strategic and cost-effective model of health commissioning. The ICB will oversee the commissioning of care for the approximately 2 million people who live in Essex. Operating within a reduced running cost envelope and aligned to the new requirements of ICBs in England, the ICB will focus on improving population health outcomes, health equity and smarter resource allocation.

By establishing clear and transparent funding arrangements, triangulated with activity and workforce within our system we aim to support our collective understanding of how resources are allocated across the system for both revenue and capital.

This role forms a key part of our planning and productivity hub for the exciting developments in train as we deliver the ambitions of the 10-year Health Plan, including multi-year planning for revenue and capital. We have a significant productivity and efficiency agenda within the NHS right now. The team has a pivotal role to play in new ways of thinking and delivering over longer time planning horizon. They provide the insights to our collective cost base and behaviours as well as benchmarking opportunities and productivity metrics to produce insights to empower, short, medium and long-term thinking for future shifts and sustainability across health care in Essex.

The Contracting Information Manager plays a pivotal role in safely securing value for money and high-quality services, the insights they will be able to deliver in respect of Activity Planning and monitoring will support the ICBs capacity planning and demand management.

As the ICB transitions to become a leaner, more focused strategic commissioning organisation the post holder will be expected to support the directorate in delivering on the three fundamental shifts set out in the NHS 10-year plan:

• From Treatment to Prevention: Embedding preventative, personalised and population based approaches to commissioning.
• From Hospital to Community: Championing care model redesign that supports community and neighbourhood health.
• From Analogue to Digital: Enabling clinically driven transformation through digital innovation, data analytics and evidence based improvement.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To deliver on the job description set out above, the job holder will be expected to deliver on the requirements set out below:

Policy and service development

• Implement policy and / or service developments related to activity reporting and contracts, interpreting requirements from NHS strategies, including the ICB strategy and the 10 Year Health Plan
• Ensure compliance with relevant ICB policies
• Use research and innovation to inform service improvements or performance management
• Support the organisations understanding of activity, agreeing methods of validation, monitoring and reporting.
• The post holder will need to have a knowledge of national tariff and payment mechanisms and the arrangements required to support the change to new arrangements.

Strategy and analysis

• Use of complex health data sets, including those relating to performance across activity, finance and quality to inform decision making
• Analysis of complex qualitative and quantitative data relating to activity
• Turning analysis into useful insights that can be used to inform decision making
• Present highly complex data, information and insights, including qualitative and quantitative data, through clear and simple written and verbal briefings
• Use of Population Health Management methodologies and tools to inform projects and programmes that will improve outcomes for patients and sustainability of health services
• Deep understanding of the payment mechanism and funding flows being able to expertly advise commissioners where appropriate.
• To provide expert technical and business knowledge, analytical support and clear presentation of activity information to clinical and non-clinical colleagues.

Planning and organisation

• Support the preparation of relevant business cases and ensure they have an objective method of measuring activity impacts leading to a systematic approach to reporting and supporting delivery expected benefits.
• Manage delivery against agreed project plan, ensuring appropriate governance, risk management, escalations and reporting
• Identify service opportunities, by developing an excellent understanding of the activity within care settings.

Communications and Partnerships

• Work collaboratively, modelling inclusive, respectful and compassionate leadership
• Listen effectively to a broad range of perspectives, including staff, patients and the public, to inform decision making
• Present information and training to large groups
• Build strong, trust-based relationships across the ICB, with NHS providers, local government, VCFSE partners and communities as needed ...