Senior Commissioning Support Officer - Middlesbrough, United Kingdom - South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The Senior Commissioning Support Officer will provide a key supporting role to the Income and Contracting Senior Manager contributing their expertise to the contract management of several major contract areas.

The contract areas cover any or all of the following sectors:
acute, community, third sector, independent sector, mental health and learning disability.

The Senior Commissioning Support Officer has responsibility for the Trust's external contracts and as such must be capable of working across organisational boundaries, as well as negotiating with and influencing senior staff of external organisations.

To work as a member of the Trust's Contract Management and Income Team in the annual negotiation of contracts with commissioners.

To lead the discussions with commissioners on in year contract management issues on behalf of the Trust.

To lead the discussions with commissioners in the annual negotiation of contracts with commissioners.

To support service leads in discussions with commissioners on other commissioning topics such as new services, service developments, service reviews etc.

To support service leads in work with other provider Trusts and independent sector organisations to develop service level agreements and contracts to support clinical services provided by STHT on other hospital sites and provided by STHFT staff to other sites.

To ensure that the Trust develops and maintains effective relationships with all external stakeholders to maintain clear understanding of commissioning intentions, the current provider landscape and the opportunities and threats these present in order to inform strategy development, annual planning, service developments and commissioning strategies.

Ensure that all contacts by Trust staff with stakeholders are used effectively to collect information and intelligence to support the market assessment process and meet our identified information requirements.

To support the development of annual plans as required.

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.

You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.