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Head of Commissioning and Contracting - Provider Collaborative
| Posting date: | 04 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £88,168.00 to £101,677.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £88168.00 - £101677.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 February 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB21 5EF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0126 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. Commissioning: Developing and embedding commissioning strategies, functions, structures, processes, and behaviours that support policy development, strategic planning, service delivery, and transformation. Leading the development of collaborative commissioning relationships with Lead Providers, NHSE, and other functions within the Collaborative. Ensuring that patient, care, and staff voices are heard and influential in setting commissioning objectives and shaping service pathways. Working closely with clinical and political leaders within the Collaborative member Trusts to ensure that commissioning options and decisions are well-informed and appropriately clinically and politically led. Leading the staff within the single commissioning function to develop the technical and behavioural skills and capabilities to enact the shift in commissioning approach. Ensuring that NICE guidance, as well as statutory functions, duties, and responsibilities within the scope of the post, are effectively fulfilled and accounted for. Contracting: Lead on developing and implementing policies and processes for the management of contracts, procuring external legal advice as appropriate, to ensure EoE PC interests are fully reflected, documented, and achieved through robust contract management, utilising all contractual levers to maximise value for money and performance. Ensure the Collaborative has in place appropriate sub-contracts with all service providers for the population, using the NHS Standard Contract, and has robust mechanisms to manage them. Lead and implement effective performance management arrangements for all contracts and business activities, producing regular reports for the Collaborative Board. Ensure that all procurement and contracting activities are carried out in accordance with legislation, health policies and procedures, and principles of good practice, including ethics and probity. Develop and embed an effective Performance Outcomes Framework. Develop, implement, and monitor governance arrangements for the effective management and review of contracts. Support Lead Providers by providing assurance on the financial sign-off of contractual documentation and relevant project initiation documentation. Jointly responsible with Lead Providers for providing contract financial information (year-to-date and forecast) as part of the regular reporting to NHSE, the Collaborative Board, and senior finance colleagues. Develop and embed processes that ensure: - Clinical outcomes are captured, measured, and Lead Providers are supported to make improvements. - Contract surveillance is robust, and any incidents are reported and managed in line with the Serious Incident Framework (SIF). - The performance of contracted services is regularly monitored and reviewed to ensure services are effective, meet statutory requirements, and deliver desired outcomes. - Any performance issues are addressed promptly and in accordance with the contractual processes. - Effective contract documentation is prepared, updated (and version controlled), and is appropriately accessible for operational and corporate directorates. Liaison with, and participation in, national contracting and commissioning forums to ensure best practices and robust contractual arrangements are in place.