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Job summary

Main area
Commissioning
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
7 months (Fixed Term until 28th March 2025)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
468-HWE376-A
Employer
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kao Park
Town
Harlow
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 per annum plus fringe allowance
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59
Interview date
11/09/2024

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Senior Transformation Manager

Band 8b

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.  

The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.5 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

 It’s an exciting time for us and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

 So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.

Job overview

As a commissioning team we want the most out of local health and care services and make sure that they are good value for money. It’s an exciting time for us and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

 So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to the health and health services in Hertfordshire and West Essex then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Transformation Manager, will be a proactive member of the ICB working closely with the West Essex Health and Care Partnership, to improve outcomes for adults and older adults who experience mental ill health in Hertfordshire and West Essex. They will be responsible for delivering key, high profile, commissioning programmes for Adult Mental Health services and Vulnerable Adults on behalf of Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB and West Essex Health and Care Partnership with a focus on Acute Mental Health services (including urgent care).  This will include managing NHS contracts, leading tender exercises, public consultations and strategy development and priority setting.

If you’re an experienced manager with commissioning experience, demonstrate high standards and share our desire to develop, empower and energise clinicians, staff, local people we want to hear from you.  You’ll have a passion for working with partners (NHS, County Council’s, Voluntary Community Faith and Social Enterprises (VCFSE) and the public to make positive changes to deliver innovative and flexible solutions for health and social care services. 

As part of the application and interview we need you to demonstrate how you have led commissioning and strategic direction.  We are looking for someone who wants to champion programmes of work, is professional, highly organised and is able to respond effectively and efficiently to the changing demand of the role working in a partnership matrix way.

Working for our organisation

Our integrated care board (ICB) is one of two key components of the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System (ICS). The second is the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). They work closely together.

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.  

The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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
  • Project management qualification, skills and/or experience, such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects, with developed partnership working skills.
  • Experience of working in a political environment with an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
  • Proven knowledge and experience of commissioning of services/service development.
  • Good understanding of mental health and related services, including autism and dementia.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to lead multi agency project groups effectively.
  • Experience of performance managing a team/individuals
  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
  • Budget management skills and/or experience, e.g. in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
  • Communicates confidently and clearly delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders to engage, persuade, negotiate, influence and inspire, and positively impacting when interacting with others at all levels.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Anna Hall
Job title
Deputy Head of Adult Mental Health
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438 843043
Additional information

For enquiries please contact Robin Goold  Head of Integrated Health and Care Commissioning via [email protected] or  01438 845 472 

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