Clinical Contracts Officer, Business Development

at  Ashford St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

1. Administrative Support and Data Analysis for Contracts a. Assist the Contracts Managers with collecting relevant documentation and information required for contracts including but not limited to quality compliance and insurance certificates and Trust policies. b.
   Provide data analysis for new contract requests such as cost modelling and comparison for trust income versus contract price based on expected activity levels. Collecting the relevant information to do this. c. Act as a primary point of contact to receive Key Performance Indicators from the Trusts contracted providers.
   Analyse KPIs versus the contract, query discrepancies and escalate breaches to the Service Manager and Head of Contracts. d. Support the Divisions when they require ad hoc reports and help with regard to contracting issues. e.
   Assist the Head of Contracts with Exit Planning tasks when clinical sub-contracts approach expiry/termination. Ensuring that all contract requirements of termination are tracked. f. Be the primary recipient of specialised commissioning circulars.
   Maintain the tracker, seek advice from the (Head of Contracts/Senior Contracts Manager), cascade relevant information, queries and responses inside and outside of the trust as appropriate. g. Assist the trusts Health Informatics Team with the quarterly data collection and submission of metrics required for the Specialised Service Quality Dashboards (SSQD). Prompt the service teams to provide their quarterly data, track the data requests and responses, assist with the interpretation of the metrics to support accurate data collection.
   h. Collect and collate weekly data for the Central Diagnostic Centre (CDC) and submit this via the NHS England portal. This requires engagement with internal and external service teams, clinicians and ability to extract data from trust sources (e.g. the data warehouse).
   i. Perform regular housekeeping of the contracts register at least once per month produce three lists of contracts to the Business Development Team as follows: where the contract is due to expire within the next 6 months, where the contract status is query (or similarly ambiguous), where the contract has expired. This will require planning and organisation of workload and reflect prioritisation of the wider team. j.
   For all Business Development contracts, perform a regular audit and check of invoices in and out versus expected contract value. For NHS-NHS contracts where ASPH is the Provider this must be annually, for other contracts this may be every two years (or more frequently where the contract is considered high risk). k. Support the Head of Contracts with responding to general data queries, including Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs).
   Identify appropriate data sources, prepare draft responses for review by the Head of Contracts, keep the FOI tracker up to date. l. Be able to provide short term cover for the Contracts Managers (for planned and short term unplanned leave). m.
   Work unsupervised using own initiative following departmental, trust and national guidance, policies and procedures escalating to senior managers, when necessary, n. Provide and receive complex information, some of which may be contentious or sensitive and present it in such a way that it can be understood by the target audience, This may require providing data to colleague who are unfamiliar with data analysis and techniques so will need support and persuasion for the most appropriate way for the data to be presented. Such data includes, but is not limited to, spend and activity information for hospital services to patients including that which is contracted in or out with other partner organisations. o.
   Review data reports as required, reviewing a range of options and analysis, ensuring that the systems used are robust and data anomalies are identified and investigated and then flagged as appropriate. Such data reports include, but are not limited to, trust patient level or service level activity and spend information. p. Support Contract Manager with review of current working practices and policies and make suggestions for service development and improvement in line with national guidance and best practice

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