We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Clinical Contracts Officer, Business Development to join our team. The successful candidate will play a key role in providing IT support to the Business Development team who manage the Trust's clinical contracts and commissioner contracts.
Provide administrative support and data analysis for the Trust's clinical contracts to support contract management and negotiations.
Create, maintain, and operate processes to validate invoices received from external providers.
Collect information and documentation required for inclusion in the Trust’s Head Contracts with NHS England, NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB and associate commissioners, and other clinical sub-contracts.
Fulfil ad-hoc data requests and data analysis on the Trust’s activity, coding and costing data and FOIs.
Responsibilities:
1. Assist the Contracts Managers with collecting relevant documentation and information required for contracts including but not limited to quality compliance and insurance certificates and Trust policies.
2. Provide data analysis for new contract requests such as cost modelling and comparison for trust income versus contract price based on expected activity levels.
3. Act as a primary point of contact to receive Key Performance Indicators from the Trust’s contracted providers. Analyse KPIs versus the contract, query discrepancies and escalate breaches to the Service Manager and Head of Contracts.
4. Support the Divisions when they require ad hoc reports and help with regard to contracting issues.
5. Assist the Head of Contracts with Exit Planning tasks when clinical sub-contracts approach expiry/termination.
6. Be the primary recipient of specialised commissioning circulars. Maintain the tracker and cascade relevant information, queries and responses inside and outside of the trust as appropriate.
7. Assist the trust’s Health Informatics Team with the quarterly data collection and submission of metrics required for the Specialised Service Quality Dashboards (SSQD).
8. Collect and collate weekly data for the Central Diagnostic Centre (CDC) and submit this via the NHS England portal.
9. Perform regular housekeeping of the contracts register – at least once per month produce three lists of contracts to the Business Development Team.
10. For all Business Development contracts, perform a regular audit and check of invoices in and out versus expected contract value.
11. Support the Head of Contracts with responding to general data queries, including Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs).
12. Provide short term cover for the Contracts Managers (for planned and short term unplanned leave).
13. Work unsupervised using own initiative following departmental, trust and national guidance, policies and procedures.
14. Provide and receive complex information, some of which may be contentious or sensitive.
15. Review data reports as required, ensuring that the systems used are robust and data anomalies are identified and investigated.
16. Support Contract Manager with review of current working practices and policies and make suggestions for service development and improvement.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
1. Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
2. On-site Nurseries
3. On-site staff cafes
4. On-site parking
5. Support in career development
6. Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics
For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org
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