NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB are looking for an enthusiastic and pro-active individual to join the Contracts and Procurement team.
The Contracts and Procurement team has a wide portfolio covering acute, community, primary care, and independent sector contracts. This post will focus on the acute portfolio (NHS Hospital Trusts & Independent Sector Hospital Providers) but may also cover other areas in a flexible matrix approach. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we work closely with our provider partners to maximize value for money and deliver effective care to patients.
The team is responsible for leading procurements to secure appropriate providers utilizing the NHS Frameworks & ensuring the ICB is compliant with the new Provider Selection Regime (PSR). One of the key objectives of the team is to work in partnership across the ICB's directorate teams and wider ICS system partners to facilitate the delivery of the LLR objectives - recovery, sustainability, and transformation.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Contracts Officer to join our friendly and welcoming team. The post holder is a key member of the contracts team whose overarching goal is to enable, promote, and support the effective use of contract data, information, knowledge, and technology to improve, inform, and support a portfolio of contracts and services. The successful individual will provide high-quality contract management support to ensure requirements are met and upheld, promoting quality improvement and best practice through robust contract management. We are looking for someone who can undertake complex and detailed information analysis of specific activities/reports requiring high levels of concentration, which may require comparing a range of options to support projects and the contract cycle.
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job:
* Actively participate in the implementation of new innovative contracting models to support the LLR System in the delivery of the changing strategic commissioning and transformational agenda.
* Ensure that contracts are secured to deliver value for money, service transformation, and the adoption of best practice. Ensure that all agreed contracts contain clear and agreed clinical pathways, service standards, and outcome-based service specifications.
* Establish constructive commercial relationships with Providers with systematic, proactive management of contract compliance and delivery of service standards and prompt resolution of contractual and customer service issues.
* Manage a portfolio of healthcare contracts, analyzing and reporting on delivery, querying variances from plans or targets, working collaboratively in the system to achieve the agreed expected outcomes.
* Contribute to service reviews, service specification development, and pathway redesign to help ensure that the best value for money and highest quality health services are secured within the available resources and specifications comply with contract terms and conditions.
* Produce assurance reports to the ICB's Boards and Committees and other forums as required on the portfolio of contracted services.
Person Specification
Education / Training / Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
* Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
Knowledge & experience
* Experience of providing business support to Senior leaders and managing relationships between senior professionals.
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
* Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
* Good understanding of current and anticipated developments that will affect the health sector.
* Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
* Able to work on own initiative and as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced and pressurised environment.
Interpersonal Skills
* Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
Mobility
* Car driver/owner or reasonable alternative due to travel required across Leicestershire, and other locations as required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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