Job summary
- Main area
- Commissioning
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 256-SH-6781383
- Employer
- NHS Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dukes Court
- Town
- Woking
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum, pro rata plus 5% high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Full Time - Commissioning Manager, Adult Mental Health & LD - Band 8a
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
NHS Surrey Heartlands works in partnership with local health and care organisations – along with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint, supporting the overall objectives of our wider integrated care system; to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area.
To deliver our objectives we need a team of talented, collaborative professionals who share the same vision and are passionate about what they do.
The base for this role is set up as Woking, but The successful post holder may choose a base closest to their home address.
Main duties of the job
• Lead mental health programme of work that delivers the strategic objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan and the developing One System Mental Health Plan
• Work with key partners within the local health economy to develop the strategies, projects and delivery plans that form part of the ICB annual operating plan including the delivery of QIPP savings.
• Ensure joint working across the local health economy within the programme area via local groups to ensure review, action and grip on delivery of commissioned services and project delivery plans
• Implementing commissioning processes including development of commissioning plans, service specifications, key performance indicators including quality outcomes, CQUINs and information reporting.
• Have oversight of contract performance including understanding of impact on service redesign/provision.
• Reporting costs and savings benefits of a portfolio of projects via the Project Management Office (PMO) accurately.
• Collating and interpreting appropriate quantitative and qualitative data in order to prepare reports and communicating complex information to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Co-ordinating hard data and soft intelligence on the detailed financial and service performance of contracts and services and ensuring this is visible to the ICB at all times, drawing on the agreed business intelligence products, and feedback from networks and patients and providing written reports and briefing as and when required
Working for our organisation
Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable place-based partnerships (our Places), each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.
The 4 Place partnerships are known as:
North West Surrey Alliance
Guildford and Waverley Alliance
Surrey Downs Health and Care
East Surrey Place
We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint and to deliver our objectives we need a team of capable, collaborative professionals who share the same vision. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.
We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and the person specification documents attached within this job advert.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Project management qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of NHS and an understanding of social care policy and systems
- Ability to work strategically and translate strategy into commissioned services
- Having an understanding of the commissioning processes, arrangements and care pathways within mental health
- In-depth knowledge of service redesign processes and methodology
- In-depth knowledge and experience in project management techniques and methodology
- Experience of collaborative working across disciplines and organisational boundaries working with a range of stakeholders
- Experience of operating in a highly political and sensitive environment
- Knowledge and understanding of NHS data requirements and well developed skills in manipulating, analysing and reporting complex information from various sources and presenting to different audiences
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of managing a budget and / or being involved in budget setting and have a working knowledge of financial processes
- Well-developed understanding of the policy environment in which CCG’s are working
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult controversial issues and/or
- Ability to present complex and / or sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with colleagues, up to senior level
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and facts and develop a range of options.
- Ability to take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Demonstrated ability to plan over short, medium and long term and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to manage a busy and varied workload
- Be results orientated, demonstrating a desire to improve performance
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing deadlines
- Ability to utilise Microsoft Office and other IT packages for report-writing and project management
Personal Qualities & Management Style
Essential criteria
- Committed to the modernisation and transformation plans of the NHS and local government
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral, with ability to explain highly complex issues to stakeholders in a clear, concise and understandable way
- The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision
- The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Mental Health Commissioning
- Email address
- [email protected]
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