Employer: NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Unex Tower
Town: Stratford
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/10/2024 23:59
Contracts Officer
Band 6
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022. We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements. We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.
Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.
Job overview
We are recruiting to two Contract Officer posts which are based in the Contracts Team that manages clinical service contracts. While the competencies for all four roles are the same, the posts are divided between the parts of the team that deal with Mental Health Contracts, Community Service Contracts, or Acute Contracts.
The main role of the Contract Officer is to be the lead for a small portfolio of NHS, private and third-sector service provider contracts. The value of the contracts will be commensurate with the seniority of the role. The Contracts Officer is the first point of contact between the ICB and providers and acts as the effective liaison between the providers and the commissioners of the service. The Contract Officer is an externally facing role and the post holder will be expected to interact with different providers on a daily basis.
The role of this Contract Officer role is also to provide administrative support to other members of the team who manage high-risk or high-value provider contracts, or who have responsibility for cross-portfolio work areas. The contracts in the portfolio of the Contract Officer can expire at different times of the year, and provider performance or payment issues can arise unexpectedly, and the Contract Officer needs to be able to respond quickly to changing priorities and manage their own workload.
Main duties of the job
1. Support teams to deliver effective contractual management within the Finance and Performance Directorate to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.
2. Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high-quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
3. Ensure accurate and open communication and coordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers and ensuring the management of specific tasks, lead reporting and analysis across a range of specialities, functions and projects.
4. Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally.
5. The job description and person specification is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
Working for our organisation
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022. We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements. We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.
We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further details contact - Sherifah Scott, Head of Contracts
Email address: [emailprotected]
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Person specification
Planning Skills
* Evidence of working to own initiative balancing complex and competing demands
Equality and Diversity
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity. Being aware of how individual actions contribute to, and make a difference to, the equality agenda
Education / Qualifications/ Experience
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
* Experience of contract management acquired through experience or training
* Understanding of the contractual processes within the ICB
Communication Skills
* Be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing complex, sensitive and / or contentious information and secure the agreement of cooperation of individuals or groups through well-developed and persuasive negotiating skills.
Analytical Skills
* Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.
Applicants who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our role profile requirements will be shortlisted for interview. To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances please ensure you quote your application reference number.
Please ensure you check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you. Invitations for interview are sent by email only, so it is important that you monitor your emails once you have submitted an application online. If you have not heard from us within a month of the closing date you should presume that you have not been shortlisted.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process, you may be required to undergo a Criminal Records Bureau check, all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Applications are welcome from job seekers who require Skilled Worker sponsorship and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to this post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post or if we are unable to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test.
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.
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