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.
The locaiton will be flexible within the BOB area
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
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
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
Mental Health, LDA (Learning Disability & Autism) and Community 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 Mental Health,
LDA and Community 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
Mental Health, LDA (Learning Disability & Autism) and Community 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 Mental Health,
LDA and Community 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
Management Skills
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political 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.
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Person Specification
Management Skills
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political 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.
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
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.
