Senior Contracts Manager
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust as Senior Contracts Manager within our Contracting Team.
The post holder will be responsible for managing the portfolio of Forward Thinking Birmingham provider contracts. Key responsibilities will be developing and maintaining appropriate contract governance, negotiating and drafting contracts, contractual management and reporting. The successful candidate will need excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills. For further information please refer to the job description and person specification.
Main duties of the job
We are a friendly and supportive team and look forward to the opportunity to support you in your professional development.
Should you wish to have an informal discussion, please contact Deborah Lane (Head of Contracting & Costing) by emailing deborahlane1@nhs.net
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.
Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level plus further management and commissioning knowledge to post graduate diploma level, or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in accountancy or law
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a health care setting
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Office and Excel including use of pivot tables and other data analysis tools
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring performance of health services
- Knowledge and experience of the NHS Standard contract
- A sound understanding of NHS Finance
- An understanding of NHS activity measures
- Experience of managing complex contracts
- Experience of contract negotiation/ influencing
- Understanding of current NHS policy and commissioning architecture
Professional/Managerial and Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to interpret national policy and apply to local situation
- Ability to use the NHS Standard Contract to document contractual agreements and action contract variations as necessary to maintain an audit trail of any agreed changes to the contract
- Ability to redesign local systems and procedures as necessary, e.g. redesign of internal reporting processes, co-ordination of a central log for Individual Funding Requests (IFRs)
- To be conversant with national data collection systems, e.g. Data Landing Portal
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Ability to interpret financial and non-financial information and use it effectively
- Ability to undertake in depth analysis of highly complex financial/ non-financial information
- Ability to present complex information regarding patient level activity to a wide range of stakeholders
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with both clinical and non-clinical colleagues
- Ability to nurture and maintain key relationships/ networks both internally and externally
- Ability to plan, organise and project manage a broad range of complex activities, e.g. the collation of service development bids, negotiation of contracts, the production of performance reports, etc.
- Ability to liaise and work with senior managers
- Ability to work with accuracy and to meet deadlines
- Ability to work effectively as a team player
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to respond to unexpected demands
- Ability to manage own workload
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to lead, manage, motivate & develop staff
- Ability to lead change and have a positive influence on others
- Ability to set and achieve objectives within realistic time frames
- Ability to understand when to escalate issues to more senior members of the team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level plus further management and commissioning knowledge to post graduate diploma level, or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in accountancy or law
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a health care setting
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Office and Excel including use of pivot tables and other data analysis tools
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring performance of health services
- Knowledge and experience of the NHS Standard contract
- A sound understanding of NHS Finance
- An understanding of NHS activity measures
- Experience of managing complex contracts
- Experience of contract negotiation/ influencing
- Understanding of current NHS policy and commissioning architecture
Professional/Managerial and Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to interpret national policy and apply to local situation
- Ability to use the NHS Standard Contract to document contractual agreements and action contract variations as necessary to maintain an audit trail of any agreed changes to the contract
- Ability to redesign local systems and procedures as necessary, e.g. redesign of internal reporting processes, co-ordination of a central log for Individual Funding Requests (IFRs)
- To be conversant with national data collection systems, e.g. Data Landing Portal
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Ability to interpret financial and non-financial information and use it effectively
- Ability to undertake in depth analysis of highly complex financial/ non-financial information
- Ability to present complex information regarding patient level activity to a wide range of stakeholders
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with both clinical and non-clinical colleagues
- Ability to nurture and maintain key relationships/ networks both internally and externally
- Ability to plan, organise and project manage a broad range of complex activities, e.g. the collation of service development bids, negotiation of contracts, the production of performance reports, etc.
- Ability to liaise and work with senior managers
- Ability to work with accuracy and to meet deadlines
- Ability to work effectively as a team player
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to respond to unexpected demands
- Ability to manage own workload
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to lead, manage, motivate & develop staff
- Ability to lead change and have a positive influence on others
- Ability to set and achieve objectives within realistic time frames
- Ability to understand when to escalate issues to more senior members of the team
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Steelhouse Lane
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 6NH
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