Employer: NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Civic Offices, Wellington Town, Wellington
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59
Senior Contracts Support Partnership Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The post holder will provide support to ensure the effective negotiation and management of a range of contracts, taking responsibility for a portfolio of contracts, ensuring successful delivery of provider contracts commissioned by the ICB, to time and to budget.
Main duties of the job
1. Work closely with the Contract Management Team (CMT) as an integral part of negotiations and performance monitoring, taking the lead on a defined portfolio of contracts.
2. Support the monthly contract monitoring and management agenda, including:
1. Monitoring performance against contractual targets.
2. The production of timely and validated contract monitoring information - including quality in a user-friendly format.
3. Support the escalation and intervention; taking responsibility for alerting the Deputy Director of Contracting/Business Partner to issues of concern and making recommendations for the actions that should be taken.
4. Coordinate the contract assurance reports for the monthly meeting.
5. Ensure that the contracts, including risks, are actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of ICB & NHS.
6. Review contract performance and recommend remedial action to be taken. Identify areas of risk for the ICB. Work with the Deputy Director of Contracts/Business Partners to advise and recommend how these can be mitigated. Document the advice provided as part of an audit trail/risk assurance process.
7. Provide detailed management and performance reports for inclusion in the monthly corporate reports for the ICB against key performance indicators in a format that enables complex information to be easily understood.
8. Manage a variety of correspondence on behalf of the CMT – including but not limited to provider enquiries; contract enquiries and ICB enquiries.
9. Ensure deadlines are met for the production of information to enable the completion of statutory NHS returns.
10. Support the CMT in ensuring that there is patient and public involvement in any contracted changes to services with the support of the ICB’s Communications and Engagement team, in order to meet the ICB’s legislative responsibility to involve patients and the public.
11. Prepare agendas, take minutes, type and distribute notes of meetings.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of interpreting/developing/implementing policy in an NHS context.
* Experience of managing NHS contracts; policy both at a national and local levels.
* Experience of the Commissioning process.
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent experience.
* Demonstrable understanding of national targets & priorities relating to NHS care.
* Good knowledge of contract management.
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy both at a national and local levels.
Please Note: In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
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