Job summary
- Main area
- Commissioning
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 942-ICB-6481328
- Employer
- NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB
- Town
- Wellington, Telford
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/08/2024
Employer heading
Senior Strategic Commissioning Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
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Senior Strategic Commissioning Lead About Us This is an exciting opportunity to join our compassionate, inclusive, and values-driven organisation at a time of significant change and opportunity. As a key member of the Commissioning Team you'll have the opportunity to lead and oversee significant programmes of work, working closely with our Local Authority partners with a central focus on improving outcomes for the population that we serve. NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is going through a period of change as an organisation to ensure that we are fit for purpose and able to respond to the local challenges. As a senior manager in the organisation, you will support putting in place the new Operating Model and driving the creation of a workplace where everyone's unique perspectives and talents are celebrated, and where compassion guides our actions every step of the way. If you're passionate about making a difference to local people, working in partnership to drive change and want to be part of a team that truly cares, apply now, and join us in shaping a health and care system that we can all be proud of.
Interviews for this role are scheduled for 8th August 2024 and will be held face to face in Wellington Civic Centre, Larkin Way, Tan Bank, Wellington, Telford, TF1 1LX. For a confidential discussion with Gemma Smith, Director of Commissioning, before applying for this role, please contact Cynthia Fearon via [email protected]
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Main duties of the job
The postholder will work alongside the Head of Commissioning to lead the development, delivery and oversight of the totality of the statutory commissioning function in line with the ICB Operating Model. The postholder will also be required to work collaboratively across directorates within the ICB, specifically with Planning, Performance and BI, Contracting, Finance, Strategy and Development, Quality, Primary Care, Digital, Workforce, Medicines Optimisation and Service Improvement to ensure that the Commissioning Cycle is embedded across the organisation.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:
- Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate.
- National and regional colleagues at NHS England
- ICS partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives
- Non-NHS organisations
- Members of the public and service users as appropriate
- Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual objectives.
- External consultancy, as required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide day to day leadership to the Commissioning Team working with the Head of Commissioning to develop and embed the Commissioning Cycle within the ICB and across the wider ICS.
Be the key point of contact for any commissioning queries.
Demonstrate strong commissioning skills with a specific focus on commissioning for person centred care and use of the PHM approach to develop and embed outcome-based commissioning across all speciality areas
Provider leadership and support for the development of coherent and outcome-based Commissioning Intentions founded in the Joint Forward Plan and System Strategies.
Play a supporting role in the formulation, implementation and ongoing review of major system wide commissioning plans that have impact on the wider population working with partners across the ICS including leading complex and sometime contentious change at significant scale and pace.
Support the review of ICB commissioning plans and ensure these are regularly reviewed against the ICB risk register.
Monitor, interpret and qualify assure progress against deliverables.
Provide support to the team in relation to public engagement and Consultation and the legalities that surround this.
Lead the development of coherent and outcome-based Commissioning Intentions founded in the Joint Forward Plan and System Strategies.
Lead the development of Financial Improvement Plans in relation to commissioning.
Support the successful handover of programmes to the Delivery and Service Redesign team for delivery.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments made on merit. We particularly welcome applications from people who are from groups which are underrepresented at senior levels in the NHS and wider society, and we are a Disability Confident Employer.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Extensive knowledge and expertise of commissioning across a wide portfolio, and substantive service change.
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Member of a relevant professional body
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
Analytical
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
Autonomy
Essential criteria
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales Interpreting national policy for implementation
Management Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills for direct line management and job management.
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
- Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
Equality and Diversity
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.
- Ensures staff for whom the post holder has line management responsibility
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cynthia Fearon
- Job title
- Corporate PA
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01952 580315
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