Partnerships Manager
Job Description
Job summary
Are you ready to make an impact, lead positive change, and shape the future of patient services?
Do you excel at managing multiple priorities, influencing others, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment?
We are seeking a dynamic and confident Partnerships Manager to join our team, playing a key role in delivering community-based commissioning and transformation across Derbyshire. This position requires travel within the Derbyshire region and offers flexibility with a hybrid work model, combining home and office-based working.
This fixed-term contract or secondment is available until 30th September 2026. If you're driven by purpose and eager to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)is unable to sponsor international applicants in this role.
Interviews will be held on Friday 10th January 2025.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in service transformation and commissioning, coupled with outstanding organisational and project management abilities. In this role, you will take the lead on specific work areas, engaging and collaborating with a diverse range of system partners and stakeholders. You will gain in-depth knowledge in your areas of responsibility, providing oversight for effective service delivery and pathways and fostering improvement opportunities across the system.
Above all, you'll bring enthusiasm, motivation, and excellent communication and influencing skills, along with a genuine passion for enhancing patient experiences and healthcare services across Derbyshire.
Please ensure you have approval from your employer or line manager before submitting a secondment application.
About us
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population. ICSs are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £1.6 billion the ICB has a staff base of approximately 500 people.
At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area;
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent;
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments;
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level;
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment, or similar
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across the region and occasionally beyond.
Values
Essential
- Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team'
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources;
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required;
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board
Address
Council House or Scarsdale
Derby/Chesterfield
DE1 2FS
Employer's website
https://www.derbyandderbyshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
