Job summary
- Main area
- Commissioning
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday business hours)
- Job ref
- 990-MID-6734218-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cardinal Square
- Town
- Derby
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Commissioning Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
An opportunity has become available within the S7a Public Health Commissioning Team to cover a 12-month secondment (maternity leave).
The Band 8b Senior Commissioning Manager post will be covering the Midlands (East) Screening portfolio which includes cancer and non-cancer screening programmes.
The role is expected to commence as of December 2024 for 12 months.
The post holder can work from any of our Midlands office locations:
Seaton House
London Road
City Link
Nottingham
NG2 4LA
Cardinal Square
10 Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
County Hall
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicestershire
LE3 8RA
23 Stephenson Street
23 Stephenson Street
Birmingham
B2 4BH
Main duties of the job
The Screening Commissioning Team is responsible for ensuring high quality Screening services are commissioned to meet the health needs of the population. The post holder will work primarily in the East of the Midlands Region, which covers 5 Integrated Care Board (ICB) footprints:
- Joined Up Care Derbyshire
- Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire
- Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland
- Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
As a Senior Commissioning Manager the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Screening Commissioning Team and working collaboratively with other NHSE commissioning directorates and ICB’s in the Midlands region.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following aspects of the Screening portfolio:
- Directly line manage the Screening Contract Managers who will undertake the contractual requirements for all routine Screening programmes
- The development and delivery of transformation programmes
- Oversee the commissioning of all routine Screening services including those nationally mandated.
- Effective programme management including reporting to monitor and measure the progress and feedback accordingly to relevant Screening governance boards and forums.
- Identifying examples of local, national and international best practice and to ensure that the locality benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare;
- Providing expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.
- Working collaboratively with key stakeholders to meet the needs of the organisation and its stakeholders.
- Ensure effective Screening commissioning across the population age groups in accordance with local & national strategies & priorities, management of all associated contracts whether directly held or through associate relationships.
- Lead and support to ensure effective Screening commissioning and contracting is undertaken across the 5 ICB localities and Providers including, independent providers where services are commissioned
- The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery for Screening service
Fixed Term
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area (Public Health/ Screening programmes
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of project management and or equivalent of experience working at a senior level in specialist area
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ellie King
- Job title
- Senior Commissioning Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07730381472
- Additional information
available to discuss the role during working hours Tuesday-Friday
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