We are recruiting for a Head of Planning and Contracts who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The role is an unique opportunity to lead the Trust's role in population health management, contract negotiation and management and both short-term and long-term strategic and annual planning cycles. As part of this role, you will work collaboratively across the health and care system, engaging in and influencing the development of system-wide plans and collaborative projects. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Leading the negotiation, development and management of key commissioning contracts and supporting contracts and sub-contracts, ensuring that the terms and contents of any contracts reflect the Trust’s best interests; Providing a high level of technical expertise on contracts, ensuring the latest national health and care policy is communicated and implemented within the Trust; Co-ordinating and leading the development of a coherent series of annual and longer-term strategic business plans; Working closely with Trust colleagues across corporate, clinical and operational teams, and with wider system partners, to ensure plans are aligned and developed in a consistent manner; Developing a strategic prioritisation framework that aligns with the Trust’s agreed strategic objectives, and that allows a consistent approach to the consideration and prioritisation of business cases and provider intentions within the Trust; Engagement in the development of population health management; Day-to-day management of and leadership to other members of the Planning and Contracts team. At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We Run The Following Hospitals The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Moore Job title: Associate Director of Planning and Information Email address: laura.moore22nhs.net Please contact Laura Moore for an informal discussion about the role.