The Hub supports the 7 ICBs in the South West region with delivering their delegated responsibilities of commissioning primary care services. The Pharmacy and Optometry Team is responsible for working with ICBs to support the commissioning and contract management of:
Community Pharmacy
Dispensing Practices
Community Opticians
This includes engaging with ICBs and key local system stakeholders, to ensure commissioned services are responsive to evidenced local need and are in-line with national commissioning guidelines and ICB commissioning priorities. The team are also responsible for quality management and improvement across the network of providers in the South West.
Alongside this work, the team or supporting ICBs in the transformation of the primary care services listed above.., You will manage and lead the team responsible for community pharmacy and optometry commissioning programmes and contracts, responsible for the development of effective working relationships at a senior level with ICBs, contractors, and key stakeholders.
With a focus on the commissioning and contracting of these services,
You will also:
Use knowledge of commissioning and contracting, to inform effective commissioning of services and commissioning development.
Enable and support the delivery of primary care transformation programmes.
Develop effective working relationships at senior level between commissioning, information governance, performance management, service development, finance and clinical governance, to ensure the implications of commissioning decisions are appropriately reflected in primary care commissioning, contracts, and agreements.
Interpret and implement complex national guidance and regulations, ensuring local policies and guidelines deliver these as appropriate.
The role supports the business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning and commissioning. The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills, and to support a partnership working approach with ICBs.
If you are an experienced individual with a relevant background at a senior level, along with the ability to communicate effectively across a variety of mediums and are someone who works well and effectively in collaboration, we would welcome your application.
NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board (ICB), known as NHS Somerset is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for implementing a health and care strategy developed by the Integrated Care Partnership.
We also host the NHS South West Collaborative Commissioning Hub.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. When recruiting, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.
We offer flexible working from your first day of employment and we also have an agile approach to home / office-based working. Please note however, that you will be required to work from one of our offices across the South West for 2/3 days per week and that elements of the role may require you to travel to other locations across the South West, to attend in-person meetings and meet the needs of the service. Please consider this before applying.
Job Share and Secondment opportunities will be considered. If you are seeking an internal or external secondment, please seek advice from your HR teamandyou must also obtain your current line manager's permission to be released on secondment before applying, to avoid disappointment.
We also offer an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.