Senior Commissioning Manager Contract Full Time - England, United Kingdom - NHS South East London Integrated Care Board

Description

NHS AfC:
Band 7

Main area Commissioning Grade

NHS AfC:
Band 7

Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.The Children's and Young Peoples Commissioning Manager will be responsible for a range of commissioning activity across the Bromley system, the postholder will hold a flexible and dynamic workplan which will cover elements of community, acute and primary care.

The postholder will have a specific focus on delivering preventative services for long term health conditions, as well as focusing on innovation and transformation of existing services to ensure better outcomes for children and young people.

Responsible for the delivery of a range of time-limited commissioning projects related to children's and young people's services.

• Responsible for commissioning projects in the areas of:

- community health services for children and young people including therapies and community nursing
- children and young people's services in Primary Care Networks (PCNs).

• Initiating and supporting transformation of services to focus on prevention and management of long term conditions
• Responsible for commissioning project tasks which will include:

- providing commissioning and commercial expertise at each stage of the commissioning cycle.
- analysing service and population data to inform commissioning projects and, in doing so, identifying trends, issues and risks.
- delivering commissioning project outcomes, including reports to the Associate Director for Children and Young Peoples
- coordinating project meetings of key stakeholders as required to ensure collective work and progress set against each objective.
- to present information that explains the work of commissioning projects in an appropriate way to a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices (operating within 35 Primary Care Networks), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT.

Importantly, the ICS seeks to be connected to the communities we serve (circa 1.92m residents) and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary and third sector groups and organisations in each borough.

Our vision for the ICS is a highly performing, sustainable system that looks after its staff, responds to its communities and takes action to reduce the inequalities they experience.

Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification or management experience or Knowledge acquired through experience or training.
Evidence of continued professional development
Demonstrable experience of children's commissioning and the specific challenges across children's services
Experience of successful commissioning services, including the key processes, within the health or social care landscape
Demonstrated experience of co- ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments;
Experience of managing risks and reporting;
Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior audience
Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2
Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly

Please note that our roles require you to live in the UKdue to on-site elements of the job,and remote working outside of the United Kingdom is not permittedunder NHS data security laws.

Further information is available from Work in the UK Government website.
Name Anthony Harris Job title AD, Children & Young Peoples Commissioning Email address Anthony.