Employer: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Trust HQ - Priestley Wharf
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/02/2025 23:59
Band 8B Head of Contracting
Job overview
As Head of Contracts, the post holder will lead and work as part of a dynamic team delivering an effective contracting service supporting managers, clinicians, and staff across Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be responsible for leading, coordinating, and managing contracts across a portfolio of Trust health care income contracts, circa £300m.
They will develop constructive working relationships with all commissioners and material sub-contractors and partners, Integrated Care System (ICS) leads, Public Health leads, and wider provider stakeholders, ensuring all contracts are negotiated and managed appropriately to meet the requirements of the Trust and in line with national guidance and local policy.
The post holder will be the management lead within the Trust for providing contracting expertise and advice and will therefore have specialist knowledge in NHS contracting.
The post holder will lead the contracting element of the team and work closely with the wider performance team to ensure all elements of contract and performance are managed to a high standard.
Responsible for:
* Two (2) Contract and Performance Managers
* One (1) Contract and Performance Support Manager
* One (1) Contract and Performance Support Officer
* One (1) Contracts Administrator
Budgetary responsibility for circa £300 million contractual income.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the planning, negotiation, development, and implementation of contracts with commissioners and external organisations, including the developing roles of the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Partnerships predominantly within the Birmingham and Solihull ICS.
2. To oversee and manage local relationships with relevant commissioners ensuring that national guidance and local policy is applied and Contractual income is protected.
3. To take responsibility and accountability for the planning, collation, management, and communication of all documentation relating to contractual negotiations throughout the negotiation period and subsequently ensuring all matters are included in appropriate contract documentation.
4. To take responsibility for developing and implementing clear policy and procedures to ensure the Trust mitigates against contractual risks, including: a contract change/variation/notice procedure, management of an active contract logs, information request procedure, SLA register.
5. To ensure that all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), deliverables, and risks (including mitigating actions) are communicated to all relevant parties within the organisation prior to and post contract sign off.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will have extensive experience within NHS contracting and commissioning roles with direct experience of leading, managing, and reporting on NHS Contracts and an understanding of associated tariffs. You will be confident advising senior managers and their teams and in representing the Trust in Commissioner discussions. You will embody and role model our Trust values and help shape and deliver our strategic objectives.
Person specification
* Educated to masters level or equivalent
* Evidence of management qualification/ Continuous Professional Development
Experience
* Extensive relevant experience operating in a senior contracting and performance management role.
* Relevant senior manager experience of negotiating and working with commissioners in a Health environment.
* Extensive relevant experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
* Extensive relevant experience in the analysis and presentation of complex information.
* Significant experience of preparing papers, reports including Board level reports.
* Significant experience in developing contractual processes to manage contracts effectively.
* Significant experience in the use of PC including relevant applications (Excel, Word, etc.) to manipulate, analyse and present information.
Skills and Knowledge
* Range and level of skills
* Depth and extent of knowledge
Personal Qualities
* Ability to develop productive relationships and influence others to engage fully in relevant work.
* Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long-term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC is an advocate of diversity and strives to mirror the community we serve as much as possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC is striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings), will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
* Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements.
* Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
* Discounts for local and national retailers.
* Dedicated well-being services for all employees.
* Flexible working where possible.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Ashley Murtagh
Job title: Director of Performance, Information & Contracting
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07969 925 089
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