Funded Contract Manager

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Location: Alcester

Since 1989, we've supported adults of all ages to maintain their independence and stay in the place they know and love. Because, life is better at home.

Helping Hands is the nation's most widely rated home care provider and the only one to be endorsed as a Centre of Excellence by Skills for Care. We have over 150 branches across England and Wales as well as our Support Office in Alcester, Warwickshire. We're now looking for a Funded Contract Manager to join our team in Alcester.

The Funded Contract Manager is a new role which will co-ordinate our work with public sector funders (Local Authorities and NHS organisations) including analyising, negotiating, reporting and monitoring to ensure commercial outcomes for the business and management of compliance and risk.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage contracts and negotiate renewal of existing contracts to maximise revenue for the business.
• Manage and monitor external and internal stakeholder relationships, dealing with confidential information in the appropriate manner.
• Support colleagues in understanding contractual requirements and ensure they adhere to the terms.
• Work with operational teams and finance colleagues to mitigate any risks arising from the contracts.
• Maintain a central robust database of contracts for both services and proactively manage renewals.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of commissioning context for social care and NHS, including understanding of Care Commissioning processes of ICB's.
• Engaging with commissioners within set criterion eg pricing but providing business cases for items of that - potentially signing off contracts in conjunction with Head of Revenue/Finance Director.

About You

To be successful in this role you'll need to have experience of working in contract management in the care sector, specifically contracts that have involved the NHS or other public sector organisations. You'll need to have good commercial understanding and be passionate about person centred care.

We're looking for a candidate who has good planning and organisational skills, strong communication skills and has excellent leadership skills.

Benefits

• Career progression opportunities
• 23 days annual leave, rising to 25 after 2 years of service
• Blue Light Card offering discounts from business and services
• Access to our employee assistance programme
• Refer a friend scheme

Helping Hands is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce as we believe this develops a comfortable working environment for all our staff. All applications will be treated fairly in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy.