Job summary
The Contracts Team is responsible for managing a diverse range of contracts across a range of healthcare organisations, including Integrated Commissioning Organisations and NHS England/Improvement. The Trust is now seeking applications for a Band 8a Contract Services Lead role from an experienced professional ideally with NHS experience who is looking for their next role.
The successful candidate will support the Head of Contracting services in achieving the overall aims and objectives of the Trust's Contracts team and will have delegated lead responsibility for a significant and considerable portfolio of legally binding healthcare contracts with specified Commissioners. The post holder will be responsible for a portfolio of work stream activities and projects. The successful candidate will need excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills as part of this role.
If you would like more information on the role, please contact Nigel Featherstone (Head of Contracting Services).
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job will be related to the management of the Trust's Contracts and Service Level Agreements with Commissioners.
* Negotiation, agreement and lead responsibility management within an agreed framework and in line with Trust Board-approved financial timescales and legal requirements.
* Ensuring all contractual paperwork is up-to-date and in line with departmental, Trust, Local Healthcare economy and National policy.
* To contribute to the management of Contracting team including the workload of Trust Contract Managers and Trainee Contract Managers
The successful candidate will possess:
* Excellent technical knowledge and experience of the NHS contract and NHS contracting
* Persuasive Communication skills to describe complex and sensitive information both verbally and in writing
* Highly developed Negotiation and Influencing skills.
* A high level of numeracy and strong knowledge of computer based software packages.
* Excellent Organisation and Time-Management skills and a keen attention to detail.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Degree Graduate level
- * Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
- * Training in Microsoft Access and Excel to an advanced level or evidence of equivalent knowledge.
- * Experience of effective team working.
Desirable
- * Qualified to Master's Degree level or can demonstrate substantial experience of working at this level within the subject area.
- * Evidence of management training.
Experience
Essential
- * Excellent technical knowledge and experience of the NHS contract and NHS contracting
- * Experience of the Commissioning Process.
- * Experience of performance management and presenting performance information to senior clinical and managerial teams.
- * Understanding of NHS Policy, including the NHS Operating Framework, key targets, and the NHS financial and commissioning processes e.g. Patient Choice and ability to interpret policy for implementation.
- * Familiarity with principles of clinical service redesign.
- * Ability to manage and deliver multiple complex projects within agreed timeframes.
- * Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- * Highly computer literate with software packages including MS Access, Excel and Word.
- * Management experience, including substantial experience at a senior level.
- * Effective communicator with a wide variety of NHS and non NHS organisations that contribute towards healthcare provision
- * Experience of managing and developing staff.
Desirable
- * Knowledge and Experience of the Procurement Process.
- * Experience of implementing NHS Policy and Legislation.
- * Experience of Change Management.
- * A strong understanding of NHS Information systems and Information Governance.
- * Understanding of SQL
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Effective communication and presentation skills both written and verbal.
- * Strong inter-personal skills including the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels from within the organisation
- * Able to understand, disseminate and present complex information, using both verbal and written disciplines.
- * Developed Negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to facilitate a workable compromise and ability to influence others, across the full range of professions and organisations.
- * Effective decision-maker.
- * Close attention to detail.
- * Professional and Positive attitude, tactful, diplomatic, courteous and respectful.
- * Strong Organisational and Time-Management skills and ability to work under pressure.
- * Ability to manage and deliver multiple complex projects within agreed timeframes.
- * Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- * Ability to network and manage relationships effectively.
- * Ability to organise own and others workloads and manage conflicting priorities and agendas.
- * Excellent analytical skills and ability to interpret and communicate complex, controversial and conflicting points articulately.
- * Assessing and judging complex information relating to financial, operational, and corporate performance against all aspects of the Contract, NHSE policy or datasets
- * Comprehensive IT skills including the use of Financial Systems and Databases. Experience with Microsoft Office products/other software packages including the ability to design highly complex spreadsheets, reports and databases.
- * Excellent keyboard skills, including a high standard of analytical ability making best use of the available functionality within Microsoft Software packages.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Degree Graduate level
- * Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
- * Training in Microsoft Access and Excel to an advanced level or evidence of equivalent knowledge.
- * Experience of effective team working.
Desirable
- * Qualified to Master's Degree level or can demonstrate substantial experience of working at this level within the subject area.
- * Evidence of management training.
Experience
Essential
- * Excellent technical knowledge and experience of the NHS contract and NHS contracting
- * Experience of the Commissioning Process.
- * Experience of performance management and presenting performance information to senior clinical and managerial teams.
- * Understanding of NHS Policy, including the NHS Operating Framework, key targets, and the NHS financial and commissioning processes e.g. Patient Choice and ability to interpret policy for implementation.
- * Familiarity with principles of clinical service redesign.
- * Ability to manage and deliver multiple complex projects within agreed timeframes.
- * Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- * Highly computer literate with software packages including MS Access, Excel and Word.
- * Management experience, including substantial experience at a senior level.
- * Effective communicator with a wide variety of NHS and non NHS organisations that contribute towards healthcare provision
- * Experience of managing and developing staff.
Desirable
- * Knowledge and Experience of the Procurement Process.
- * Experience of implementing NHS Policy and Legislation.
- * Experience of Change Management.
- * A strong understanding of NHS Information systems and Information Governance.
- * Understanding of SQL
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Effective communication and presentation skills both written and verbal.
- * Strong inter-personal skills including the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels from within the organisation
- * Able to understand, disseminate and present complex information, using both verbal and written disciplines.
- * Developed Negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to facilitate a workable compromise and ability to influence others, across the full range of professions and organisations.
- * Effective decision-maker.
- * Close attention to detail.
- * Professional and Positive attitude, tactful, diplomatic, courteous and respectful.
- * Strong Organisational and Time-Management skills and ability to work under pressure.
- * Ability to manage and deliver multiple complex projects within agreed timeframes.
- * Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- * Ability to network and manage relationships effectively.
- * Ability to organise own and others workloads and manage conflicting priorities and agendas.
- * Excellent analytical skills and ability to interpret and communicate complex, controversial and conflicting points articulately.
- * Assessing and judging complex information relating to financial, operational, and corporate performance against all aspects of the Contract, NHSE policy or datasets
- * Comprehensive IT skills including the use of Financial Systems and Databases. Experience with Microsoft Office products/other software packages including the ability to design highly complex spreadsheets, reports and databases.
- * Excellent keyboard skills, including a high standard of analytical ability making best use of the available functionality within Microsoft Software packages.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
