SWLCO05 Ass Head of Commissioning Operations & Contracting

at  NHS South West London Integrated Care Board

We are currently recruiting to Assistant Head of Commissioning Operations & Contracting permanent role within the Commissioning Operations and Contracting Team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead on managing a portfolio of contracts within a fast paced dynamic environment.
Commissioning Operations and Contracting team monitors the procurement and contracting of healthcare provision, goods and services for South West London ICB. We ensure our organisation is supported through decision making with the appropriate governance process in place.

EACH ICS CONSISTS OF TWO STATUTORY ELEMENTS:

an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
enhance productivity and value for money and;
help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people’s health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Please refer to Job Description for full details
Duties and Responsibilities
The postholder will significantly contribute to strategic planning, whilst delivering to a portfolio of contracts and procurements.

• Responsibly to define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice, ensure documentation of those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery .
• Responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Commissioning Operations and contracting team
• Leading on annual negotiations ensuring application and delivery of a robust strategy for a portfolio of high value/profile contracts.
• Work collaboratively across the system to deliver robust business cases for procurements and contracts that support and deliver value for money.
• Leading on co-ordination of procurements ensuring timely delivery.
• Leading on contract monitoring and oversight promoting collaborative approaches to managing risks across the system.
• Support senior leads and provider resilience across the contracting portfolio.
• Providing procurement and contractual advice to support effective commissioning and continuous improvement of services across SWL.
• Take the contractual lead working with Performance, Planning and BI to implement processes to support system oversight and assurance.
• Provide contract expertise to Provider Collaboratives to ensure the alignment of system transformation and recovery to contracting as needed.
• Provide contract and procurement expertise and support to SWL Places
• Provide contract and procurement and advice to teams and programmes to support formal decision making at SWL Contracting and Procurement Group (CaPG)
• Interface with finance leads to oversee the management of budgets through the appropriate scheme of delegation.
• Ensure contracts and procurement details are accurately registered for statutory monthly publication.
• Matrix working to engage and lead on contractual aspects of monthly performance reporting and assurance. (Operating plan delivery, Finance, Quality, and Performance).
• Lead on to the analysis of variances, including a root cause analysis of performance issues, using trend analysis and benchmarking as appropriate, that interprets the data and provides recommendations on next steps.
• Undertake the monthly assessment of risk and performance variances issues with development of appropriate mitigation action plans with providers and communicated.
• Deputies for the Deputy Director of Commissioning Operations