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.
Main duties of the job
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 support the Director of Strategic Commissioning & Planning in setting the strategic framing for the annual NHS planning round within the system, alongside supporting coordinating the mechanics to ensure alignment across organisations and functional areas. They will assist with leading the annual planning round and any in-year adjustments, liaising with system leaders, NHS England and functional area leads across finance, workforce, operations, quality.
About us
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and
Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation
responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the
communities of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
We work collaboratively with partner
organisations including local government, the voluntary, community and social
enterprise sector, and people and communities across the BOB Health and Care
Integrated Care System (ICS).
Our key priorities are to
increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for the 1.7
million people who live in our communities.
We value and promote diversity
and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best
employers 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, Asian 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.
Our Values are:
Respectful
we are inclusive
Impactful
we make a difference
Integrity
we are kind and fair
Leadership
we encourage leadership
Collaborative
we work together in a positive way
Job description
Job responsibilities
This
is a key management 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 assist 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 support the Director of Strategic Commissioning & Planning
in setting the strategic framing for the annual
NHS planning round within the system, alongside supporting coordinating the
mechanics to ensure alignment across organisations and functional areas. They
will assist with leading 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 a subject matter expert and work with the Clinical Lead across
Planned Care, Diagnostics and Cancer 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
post holder will lead for collaborating with wider ICS system leaders including places, provider
collaboratives, public health, primary care, local government, voluntary and
community sector, and local people to make real transformational differences
for the population. They will support
to achieve
this by ensuring our commissioning decisions are evidence-based, intelligence
led and provide the best means for us to deliver our purpose and strategic aims
within the resources available.
The
post holder for Planned Care,
Diagnostics and Cancer will be responsible for providing specialised
subject matter knowledge, guidance, and direction to support the strategic
commissioning and planning team which exists to enable the ICB to execute its
strategic role of planning services to meet the health needs of the population.
It does this by gathering input and evidence (population health data; patient
and population feedback; service reviews) to inform future service provision,
working with partners and our population to set priorities, design services and
evaluate impact.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This
is a key management 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 assist 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 support the Director of Strategic Commissioning & Planning
in setting the strategic framing for the annual
NHS planning round within the system, alongside supporting coordinating the
mechanics to ensure alignment across organisations and functional areas. They
will assist with leading 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 a subject matter expert and work with the Clinical Lead across
Planned Care, Diagnostics and Cancer 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
post holder will lead for collaborating with wider ICS system leaders including places, provider
collaboratives, public health, primary care, local government, voluntary and
community sector, and local people to make real transformational differences
for the population. They will support
to achieve
this by ensuring our commissioning decisions are evidence-based, intelligence
led and provide the best means for us to deliver our purpose and strategic aims
within the resources available.
The
post holder for Planned Care,
Diagnostics and Cancer will be responsible for providing specialised
subject matter knowledge, guidance, and direction to support the strategic
commissioning and planning team which exists to enable the ICB to execute its
strategic role of planning services to meet the health needs of the population.
It does this by gathering input and evidence (population health data; patient
and population feedback; service reviews) to inform future service provision,
working with partners and our population to set priorities, design services and
evaluate impact.
Person Specification
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Autonomy
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Analytical
Essential
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
- High level critical thinking skills.
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff
- effectively.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
-
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Member of relevant professional body.
Person Specification
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Autonomy
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Analytical
Essential
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
- High level critical thinking skills.
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff
- effectively.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
-
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Member of relevant professional body.
