Senior Contract Lead - Acute ISP In System
Job Description
Job summary
Are you a contracting professional looking to make a real impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment? Join our team as a Senior Contract Lead, where you will play a key role in delivering excellent contract management services to our Integrated Care Board (ICB).
This is an opportunity to develop your career while working closely with senior leaders, healthcare providers, and stakeholders across the system. You will act as a key link across a number of contracts,supporting the ICB in achieving its goals.
Main duties of the job
- As the Senior Contract Lead you are expected to lead the provision of an efficient, effective, and co-ordinated contract management portfolio capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the goals of the ICB.
- This will include leading on the delivery of specific contracts and/or specific portfolio, and support end-to-end processes for provider management and specific contracting responsibilities in driving transformation, as well as value for money.
- This role will lead an efficient, effective, high quality, professional and well-coordinated contract management service for the ICBs acute care contracts across a number of providers and ensure that all statutory, regulatory and NHS contractual requirements are met, and ensure alignment with, and delivery of, the requirements of each individual ICB. This will include relationship management with other ICBs and providing regular and ad-hoc analysis and reporting as required by the individual ICBs.
- The Senior Contract Lead will ensure that ICB standard processes are implemented and maintained, and facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
- A key aspect of this role is to work effectively and proactively with other teams in the ICB, other ICBs and CSU including Finance, Business Intelligence, Quality and Performance.
About us
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the communities of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
We work collaboratively with partner organisations including local government, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and people and communities across the BOB Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
Our key priorities are to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for the 1.7 million people who live in our communities.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Our Values are:
- Respectful we are inclusive
- Impactful we make a difference
- Integrity we are kind and fair
- Leadership we encourage leadership
- Collaborative we work together in a positive way
Job responsibilities
Please find attached the detailed job description for further information on the duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- - Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- - Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- - Experience of contracting and performance management
- - Expert knowledge of NHS National tariff payment system, and associated financial and information flows
- - Experience of working within a complex and challenging environment, and managing demanding contract relationships with multiple stakeholders
- - Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
- - Evidence of planning and delivering programmes, projects and services on time using established project management techniques
- - Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes and achieving financial target
- - Extensive knowledge and experience of using the NHS Standard Contract
Qualifications
Essential
- - Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- - Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Member of relevant professional body
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
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB
Address
Berkshire Health Authority
Bath Road
Reading
RG30 2BA
Employer's website
https://www.bucksoxonberksw.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
