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Job overview

The post holder will support the Head of Procurement and Market Shaping to maintain an in-depth knowledge of the market to ensure best value, quality and innovation are secured through the strategic commissioning, contracting and procurement activities of the Directorate. This includes contributing to the organisational and directorate efficiency plans and ensuring we have a robust strategy.

The post holder will support the development and implementation of a procurement strategy that enables us to achieve our corporate objectives and strategic ambitions for improved population health outcomes. The postholder will hold responsibility for coordinating internal audit requirements and ensuring that there are accurate and up-to-date documentation supporting market development, shaping and procurements. This will involve reporting on the progress, impact, and benefits of our market engagement and procurement activities, as well as managing the markets of our service portfolios.

The post holder will be required to ensure market engagement and qualitative/quantitative analysis supports the approach to negotiation and procurements.

There will be a requirement to work collaboratively with other departments to deliver the overarching objectives and to deputise/cover other portfolios during periods of leave or absence.

The post holder will be required to work in one of our central London offices at least once a week and will be able to work flexibly from home on other days of the week.

Main duties of the job

•    Delivery of the Strategic Procurement Support function as set out earlier including the delivery of efficiencies, planning and contracting requirements. This includes the delivery of all procurement related advice, support and leadership required by the directorate and to act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for ICB as required.
•    Development and implementation of a wide range of strategies to improve services commissioned to meet both corporate and population health priorities. This will include strategic approaches to commissioning, contracting, efficiencies or procurements as well as service changes or other matters related to the wider remit of the ICB and NHS.
•    Actively engaging with the market to gain intelligence to inform our approach into the shaping of our markets such as the strategic approach to be taken for out of hospital services or the implementation of our VCS Strategy and others, as well as providing the bridge between the external Procurement Hub and the ICB/ICS.
•    Reporting on the progress, impact and benefits of our strategic market engagement and procurement activities including identifying how these are contributing to the delivery of our priorities and efficiencies.

Working for our organisation

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington.

As an ICB, we’re focused on:
•    improving outcomes in population health and healthcare
•    tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
•    enhancing productivity and value for money 
•    helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

It is an exciting time to be joining NCL ICB – we have commenced an organisational change programme to redesign the structure of the organisation and the way that we work to better meet the needs of our population, our people, our system, and our partners. As part of the organisational change programme, we want to re-launch and re-energise the organisation, embed new ways of working and building the capabilities we need to create a thriving organisational culture.