Job summary
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West
Integrated Care Board is looking for an experienced and dynamic senior manager
to lead the Strategic Commissioning and Planning team. This complex and pivotal
role involves system wide strategic commissioning and planning, working closely
with ICS system leaders, including Places, provider collaboratives, public
health, primary care, local authorities, voluntary and community sectors, and
residents to ensure that commissioning decisions are evidence-based and
intelligence-led.
Key responsibilities include developing and implementing a
strategic commissioning and planning strategy to create effective and
sustainable care pathways, addressing inequities, and shifting investments
towards prevention, primary, and community services. The role also involves
setting the strategic framework for the annual NHS planning round, ensuring
alignment across various organisations and functional areas.
The successful candidate will lead the strategic
commissioning and planning team, gather input and evidence to inform future
service provision, set priorities, design services, and evaluate their impact.
The ideal candidate will have significant experience in a senior leadership
role, strong strategic planning and commissioning skills, excellent leadership
and team management abilities, and the capacity to collaborate effectively with
a diverse range of stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
This
is a complex and pivotal system leadership role responsible for system-wide
Strategic Commissioning and Planning to ensure the best use of our £3.6bn
resources in the most appropriate and evidence-based way. The post-holder will
lead on developing our strategic commissioning and planning strategy to ensure more effective and sustainable pathways of
care, tackle inequity alongside shifting investment into areas such as
prevention and primary and community services.
The
post holder will be responsible for setting the strategic framing for the
annual NHS planning round within the system, alongside coordinating the
mechanics to ensure alignment across organisations and functional areas. They
will lead the annual planning round and any in-year adjustments, liaising with
system leaders, NHS England and functional area leads across finance,
workforce, operations, quality.
The
post holder will develop and lead a team of subject matter experts across
sector areas and pathways to ensure the ICB is equipped with the right insights
to ensure evidence-based commissioning decisions. This will include population
health management insights, outcome data and quality metrics alongside public and
patient feedback.
The location is flexible within the BOB area
About us
In
the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers
the geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authority
boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and
Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While
overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we
have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our
constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3
acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance
trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of
public money each year.
We
value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for
all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the
communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership
and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and
minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from
people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all
under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
post holder will be responsible for
Leading
system annual and in-year planning working directly with system leaders to
agree the planning strategy and approach. This will require regular engagement
with the ICB and Trust Boards, alongside partnership working across the system.
Develop
the strategy for system-wide resourcing shifts, such as increased investment in
primary and community services, in line with our Joint Forward Plan and
national policy developments.
Lead
an expert strategic commissioning function, providing the ICB and wider system
with a clear view on the drivers of clinical and financial risk, emerging
themes, care solutions and a strategic view on what to implement in the short,
medium to long term to deliver our strategic aims.
Produce
an allocation strategy that is informed by population health, outcomes, health
economic value and public and patient feedback.
Identify
and develop innovative solutions to reduce inequalities, increase productivity
and improve patient outcomes across the ICS.
Leading the ongoing development of the ICBs long
term planning and strategic commissioning activities.
Acting as the ICBs Planning and commissioning expert,
advising the CEO, Board and partner Boards as required.
Manage
the team and develop ICB strategic commissioning expertise.
Role
model working in matrix way across the ICB, for example, with colleagues in
contracting, performance, or quality to support the commissioning cycle.
Liaise
with all partner organisations across the BOB Integrated Care System.
Lead
training and development and recruitment activity across the Department or
Directorate.
Oversight
and management of all aspects of the Department or Directorate budgets.
The
post holder will be placed on the two-tier Strategic on-call Rota for BOB ICB.
Full details of the on-call rota including frequency will be provided to you as
part of your induction arrangements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
post holder will be responsible for
Leading
system annual and in-year planning working directly with system leaders to
agree the planning strategy and approach. This will require regular engagement
with the ICB and Trust Boards, alongside partnership working across the system.
Develop
the strategy for system-wide resourcing shifts, such as increased investment in
primary and community services, in line with our Joint Forward Plan and
national policy developments.
Lead
an expert strategic commissioning function, providing the ICB and wider system
with a clear view on the drivers of clinical and financial risk, emerging
themes, care solutions and a strategic view on what to implement in the short,
medium to long term to deliver our strategic aims.
Produce
an allocation strategy that is informed by population health, outcomes, health
economic value and public and patient feedback.
Identify
and develop innovative solutions to reduce inequalities, increase productivity
and improve patient outcomes across the ICS.
Leading the ongoing development of the ICBs long
term planning and strategic commissioning activities.
Acting as the ICBs Planning and commissioning expert,
advising the CEO, Board and partner Boards as required.
Manage
the team and develop ICB strategic commissioning expertise.
Role
model working in matrix way across the ICB, for example, with colleagues in
contracting, performance, or quality to support the commissioning cycle.
Liaise
with all partner organisations across the BOB Integrated Care System.
Lead
training and development and recruitment activity across the Department or
Directorate.
Oversight
and management of all aspects of the Department or Directorate budgets.
The
post holder will be placed on the two-tier Strategic on-call Rota for BOB ICB.
Full details of the on-call rota including frequency will be provided to you as
part of your induction arrangements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
Desirable
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Autonomy
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
Desirable
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
