Senior Contracting and Commissioning Manager - Huntingdon

at  North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Senior Contracting and Commissioning Manager. The successful candidate will play a key role in commissioning within the Trust, taking an active lead in negotiations with our key commissioners.
The successful candidate will be a pro-active, high level communicator with an eye for detail.
Whilst experience of working with NHS commissioning organisations is desirable, this advert welcomes applicants from different backgrounds where transferable knowledge and skills are shared.
This role is challenging and varied, enabling the post holder to work with a variety of internal stakeholders, from supporting service developments with service and clinical leads to negotiating high value contracts.
The Trust’s contracts team is responsible for NHS contracts and Service Level Agreements within the Trust’s contract portfolio which is currently worth approximately £600m in income from patient related activity. Currently there are 3 standard NHS Contracts and approximately 200 Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
The role of the Commissioning Team is to ensure appropriate contractual arrangements are in place with all required organisations, and that these are appropriately managed.
The post holder undertakes all core tasks involved in this work, which include:
Working with colleagues in NHS Commissioning organisations and partner NHS organisations to ensure appropriate governance arrangements are in place and being managed.
Working with Clinical Divisional Business Managers, Financial Business Partners, and Information Services to ensure clinical activity is being correctly recorded and invoiced/ paid.
Understanding changes in national or local commissioning policy and articulating this within the Trust.
Ensuring the Trust compliance with contractual standards, escalating risks and concerns where appropriate.
Seek to maximise the Trusts income through commissioning incentive schemes such as CQUINs.
Management of the Trusts Private Patient function
Management of staff as identified within the team’s organisational structure
We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusivity within our workforce and warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on encouraging those from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, as well as candidates from our local area.
As part of our commitment to supporting our employees we offer a range of benefits including:
Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days and increasing to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, in addition to the national Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);

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