An opportunity has become available within the S7a Public Health Commissioning Team to cover a 12-month secondment (maternity leave).
The Band 8b Senior Commissioning Manager post will be covering the Midlands (East) Screening portfolio which includes cancer and non-cancer screening programmes.
The role is expected to commence as of December 2024 for 12 months.
The post holder can work from any of our Midlands office locations:
Seaton House - London Road, City Link, Nottingham, NG2 4LA
Cardinal Square - 10 Nottingham Road, Derby, DE1 3QT
County Hall - Leicester Road, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA
Main duties of the job
The Screening Commissioning Team is responsible for ensuring high-quality Screening services are commissioned to meet the health needs of the population. The post holder will work primarily in the East of the Midlands Region, which covers 5 Integrated Care Board (ICB) footprints:
* Joined Up Care Derbyshire
* Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire
* Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland
* Lincolnshire
* Northamptonshire
As a Senior Commissioning Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Screening Commissioning Team and working collaboratively with other NHSE commissioning directorates and ICBs in the Midlands region.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following aspects of the Screening portfolio:
* Directly line manage the Screening Contract Managers who will undertake the contractual requirements for all routine Screening programmes.
* The development and delivery of transformation programmes.
* Oversee the commissioning of all routine Screening services including those nationally mandated.
* Effective programme management including reporting to monitor and measure the progress and feedback accordingly to relevant Screening governance boards and forums.
* Identifying examples of local, national and international best practice and ensuring that the locality benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare.
* Providing expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments, and stakeholder knowledge.
* Working collaboratively with key stakeholders to meet the needs of the organisation and its stakeholders.
* Ensure effective Screening commissioning across the population age groups in accordance with local & national strategies & priorities, management of all associated contracts whether directly held or through associate relationships.
* Lead and support to ensure effective Screening commissioning and contracting is undertaken across the 5 ICB localities and Providers including independent providers where services are commissioned.
* The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery for Screening service.
Fixed Term
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only; agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area (Public Health/ Screening programmes).
Skills
* Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
* Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
* Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
* Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others.
* Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values.
Experience
* Demonstration of project management and/or equivalent experience working at a senior level in a specialist area.
* Experience of budgetary responsibility, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes.
* Appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
* Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to the post portfolio.
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