Employer: NHS England
Employer type: NHS
Site: Springfields Health and Wellbeing Centre
Town: Rugeley
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/12/2024 23:59
Interview date: 17/12/2024
Commissioning Manager (Health and Justice)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
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Job overview
Do you have commissioning experience and like the challenge of working with a range of stakeholders to commission services for a population with high levels of health inequalities? If the answer is yes, we may have the role for you.
The West Midlands Health and Justice team are responsible for commissioning healthcare services across a range of custodial and non-custodial settings, including prisons, secure children’s facilities, courts, police custody suites and Sexual Assault Referral Centres.
We have a Band 8a commissioning manager vacancy within the non-custodial part of the team, with responsibilities to commission Liaison and Diversion, Primary Mental Health Treatment requirements and Reconnect services within the West Midlands region. This is a dynamic role where there is often a range of developing opportunities to lead on nationally funded pilot/pathway projects.
Main duties of the job
Working with a range of independent sector and NHS providers the post holder will provide operational leadership to a small commissioning team responsible for all aspects of commissioning, contract quality assurance and performance monitoring in the non-custodial portfolio. Non-custodial services have an interface with a range of stakeholders within the wider system and the post holder will be expected to work alongside the Senior Commissioning Manager to develop strong robust relationships with them.
The postholder will be required to undertake hybrid working and the team’s office base is Springfield Health and Wellbeing Centre in Rugeley where several of our meetings are held. Regular travel will be required across the West Midlands region to attend face to face meetings within prisons and as a result basic DBS clearance will be required to enable security clearances to be obtained.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience
* Commissioning and contracting experience
* Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
* Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
* Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
* Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
* Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
Values and behaviours
* Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
* Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
* Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
Other
* Able to travel across various sites (including prisons, courts and custody suites) as required to deliver the role
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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