Portfolio Manager Mental Health | NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | NA, ST18 0BF |
| Company: | Midlands and Lancashire CSU |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6341155/066-ICB-6341155 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity to become a Portfolio Manager for Mental Health within the Chief Transformation Officers directorate has arisen. The post holder will support the Associate Director and the Senior Portfolio Manager to deliver improvements for children and young people, adults and older adults including the implementation of a range of national and system agreed priorities. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated candidate to join us who is willing to go that extra mile and to be part of a successful and effective team.
You will be expected to possess and utilise specialist, in depth knowledge and experience in the areas of strategic commissioning, contracting and procurement, service redesign, programme and project management, provider management, performance management, the management of staff to deliver the key areas of responsibility:
· Responsible for planning activity, designing, specifying and commissioning services across the ICB’s portfolio areas to meet the healthcare needs of the ICB’s population, working closely with the clinical leads, heads of portfolio and senior portfolio managers in doing so.
· Responsible for proposing changes to services and commissioning policies and the development and delivery of service transformation plans, business plans, policy and strategy for areas of commissioned activity.
· Responsible for ensuring contracts with service providers deliver the specified outcomes, perform within the budgets available and are delivered to the required quality.
· Ensuring that services are commissioned and procured in line with competition law, standing financial instructions and local partnership frameworks and ensuring contestability in the way that the ICB commissions and procures services.
See attached job description for full outline of main duties.
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB)is responsible for planning functions; managing the NHS budget and arranging the provision of health services in the geographical area.
Location Home based/hybrid working (most of posts). Travel on occasions to a Hub location with at least 1 days notice
New starters are expected to collect IT equipment, from offices in Stoke-on-Trent, and if based at home are required to have appropriate desk/chair/ relevant equipment in compliance with DSE regulations
Posts at Band 8c and above, will take part in the On-call rota, flexible over 7 days, supporting the System Control Centre, with full training provided.
Unconscious Bias/Invisible Disability Training and Equality Induction are mandatory.
Interviews may take place via MS Teams or in person
We promote a compassionate and inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.
The ICB embrace the principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of their age, disability, gender re-assignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, sex or sexual orientation. It’s important that our workforce reflects the diversity of communities as much as possible.
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB operates a matrix working approach within the Transformation Team. The role will be flexible and adaptable to reflect the matrix working approach and will both lead on major areas of transformational activity as well as complex, time limited programmes and projects.
Working closely with ICS system partners, the postholder will be responsible for the strategic, operational and project management of major areas of Mental Health transformation in line with range of national and system agreed priorities. The post-holder will at all times support the organisational processes for monitoring delivery of transformational schemes and support all staff to do the same.
They will support the interpretation of government and organisational policy, proposing policy or service changes that will determine both day to day work and actions and longer term strategic priorities in their own and other programme’s areas of responsibility.
They will be responsible for compiling ICB business plans and determining services to be commissioned, ensuring their effective implementation, that performance targets and strategic objectives are met and that the required contributions to corporate policies and strategy are made.
They will be responsible for the development of skills, knowledge and capacity within the ICB to achieve core commissioning competencies.
The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
They will develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data and present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to share best practice.
The post holder will be required to manage projects and carry out functional responsibilities including:
· To provide support to the ICB Clinical Leaders and Transformation Team in developing and executing the ICB’s transformation plan, delivery of QIPP and management of contracts
· Lead on key service reviews developing appropriate commissioning solutions across the ICB footprint and wider health economy
· Be a first point of contact for all commissioning enquiries for member practices, ICB staff, external stakeholders and members of the public
· Contribute to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of individual and workstream success
· Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas where agreed.
· Provide coordination of and participate in relevant internal and external working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested
· Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function
· Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
· Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes
The post holder will be expected to manage financial areas of the commissioning function by providing regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective and providing oversight and monitoring of all aspects of Team budgets. There will also be a requirement to evaluate projects and services within the Mental Health portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis
This advert closes on Friday 14 Jun 2024