Head of Contracting and Commissioning

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Ensure the Trust has in place appropriate contracts with commissioners, clients and business partners.
• In collaboration with the Associate Director establish, manage and develop arrangements for formulating, agreeing and documenting contracts, agreements and schedules in respect of the Trust's health and social care services and other business activities.
• Lead and implement effective performance management arrangements for all contracts and business activities, producing regular reports for the Associate Director or Director as appropriate.
• Ensure that all procurement and contracting activities are carried out in accordance with legislation, health policies and procedures and principles of good practice including ethics and probity.
• To support the partnership working approach with statutory, voluntary and independent sector agencies in relation to contracting issues.
• Ensure that the relationship between activity, cost and performance is made explicit within all contracting activity.
• To support the Directorates in reviewing the performance of contracted services so that they are regularly monitored and reviewed to ensure services are effective, meet statutory requirements and deliver desired outcomes.
• To support the Associate Director in ensuring that effective contract documentation is prepared updated (and version controlled) and is appropriately accessible for operational and corporate directorates.
• Ensure actions from the Trusts various performance meetings are logged and followed through to completion with the operational and management teams.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent professional qualification

Desirable criteria

• Project Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 5yrs NHS experience at a senior level
• Experience of contract negotiations and performance management at a senior level
• Experience of delivering complex statistical reports and messages to a diverse range of people.
• Experience of effective budget and resource management

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Well developed persuasive, influencing and negotiating skills
• Ability to understand, interpret and implement guidance
• Effective team leadership skills
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of contracts management and technical understanding of the NHS Standard Contract
• Knowledge of working in Mental Health and/or Community Trusts
• Knowledge of NHS funding
• Good business sense and commercial acumen

Desirable criteria

• Experience of creative problem solving

Physical Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel across sites in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough area
• Sitting for prolonged periods using a Computer

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel independently across all areas of the Trust
• Ability to work flexibly from the normal working pattern (including out of hours / occasional weekend) to meet service needs.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Documents to download

• JD - Head of Contracting and Commissioning (PDF, 368.6KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)