Principal Contracting Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Subcontractor Management & PSR Compliance:

• Oversee subcontractor arrangements, ensuring compliance with PSR principles including transparency, fairness, and value.
• Lead the negotiation of subcontractor contract values, ensuring alignment with service delivery expectations, financial sustainability, and regulatory requirements.
• Undertake financial monitoring of commissioned services, identifying opportunities for cost savings, efficiencies, and improved value for money.
• Apply appropriate PSR procurement routes (e.g., Direct Award, Most Suitable Provider, Competitive Process) for subcontracted services.
• Ensure subcontractors meet performance standards and contractual obligations.
• Maintain records of provider assessments, exclusions, and conflicts of interest as required under PSR.
• Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of this responsibility.

Escalation Handling:

• Act as the lead escalation point for complex or unresolved NHS contractual queries, including disputes, performance concerns, and financial challenges.
• Coordinate internal responses to escalated issues, ensuring timely resolution and consistent communication with ICBs and other stakeholders.
• Maintain a structured escalation log, tracking issues, actions, and outcomes to support governance and continuous improvement.
• Provide briefings and recommendations to senior leadership on high-risk or sensitive contractual matters.

Section 106 (S106) Funding:

• Ensure timely submission and follow up of s106 funding bids according to legal framework.
• Collaborate with local authorities, planning teams, and ICBs to ensure appropriate allocation of S106 funds to support service expansion and infrastructure.
• Monitor compliance with S106 agreements and reporting requirements, ensuring transparency and accountability.

For further details please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

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Knowledge & Experience

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Skills

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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

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Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 664.3KB)
• Welcoming Candidates with Disability (PDF, 472.4KB)
• Candidate Information (PDF, 880.8KB)