Job summary
Employer heading
Commissioning Manager - Children and Young People
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The Children’s and Young Peoples Commissioning Manager will be responsible for a range of commissioning activity across the Bromley system, the postholder will hold a flexible and dynamic workplan which will cover elements of community, acute and primary care. The postholder will have a specific focus on delivering preventative services for long term health conditions, as well as focusing on innovation and transformation of existing services to ensure better outcomes for children and young people.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be:-
• Responsible for the delivery of a range of time-limited commissioning projects related to children’s and young people’s services.
• Responsible for commissioning projects in the areas of:
- community health services for children and young people including therapies and community nursing acute and UEC for children and young people’s services in Primary Care Networks (PCNs). Initiating and supporting transformation of services to focus on prevention and management of long term conditions.
• Responsible for commissioning project tasks which will include:
- providing commissioning and commercial expertise at each stage of the commissioning cycle.
- analysing service and population data to inform commissioning projects and, in doing so, identifying trends, issues and risks.
- delivering commissioning project outcomes, including reports to the Associate Director for Children and Young Peoples
- coordinating project meetings of key stakeholders as required to ensure collective work and progress set against each objective.
- to present information that explains the work of commissioning projects in an appropriate way to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
NHS South East London ICB is the statutory body responsible for commissioning healthcare services to south east London’s 1.9 million residents of the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.
The postholder will working within the borough of Bromley, under the ‘One Bromley Partnership’, however there will be opportunities and expectation of work across SELICB where appropriate to work towards greater consistency across all SEL boroughs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for full details of the duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification or management experience or Knowledge acquired through experience or training.
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of children’s commissioning and the specific challenges across children’s services
- Experience of successful commissioning services, including the key processes, within the health or social care landscape
- Working with stakeholders to transform services, better meeting the needs of a specific population
- Demonstrated experience of co- ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments;
- Experience of managing risks and reporting;
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior audience
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- ability to communicate with a range of stakeholders, facilitating challenging conversations
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anthony Harris
- Job title
- AD, Children & Young Peoples Commissioning
- Email address
- [email protected]
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