About this role
Job summary
North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and motivated Head of Commissioning to join our Secondary Care Northern Alliance Team.
Reporting to the Senior Head of Commissioning (Secondary Care Northern Alliance), this senior leadership role will lead the development and delivery of effective commissioning and contracting across a portfolio of secondary care services.
Please note this post is only accepting applications from current staff members of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and staff members of North of England Commissioning Support (NECS).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership across a broad range of commissioning activities, ensuring that commissioned services are high quality, financially sustainable and deliver improved outcomes for local populations. Working closely with providers, clinical leaders, and system partners, you will lead programmes of service improvement and redesign as appropriate in line with the critical functions of an Integrated Care Board.
About us
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Job description Job responsibilities
A key aspect of the role will be overseeing complex contractual arrangements, driving service transformation, improving access and quality, and ensuring robust governance and assurance processes are in place. You will support the delivery of strategic priorities across planned care, urgent care and wider secondary care services, whilst contributing to the development of innovative and integrated models of care.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Professional qualification at Masters' degree level or equivalent experience.
Desirable
Formal project management qualification. formal management qualification.
Experience Essential
Leading large scale transformation' accreditation or equivalent experience. Significant experience of commissioning and delivering and leading change to deliver required outcomes at a senior level. Demonstrate experience of leading change in in a complex and sensitive environment, including delivery of the implementation of change. Significant NHS experience in commissioning, procurement or contract management. Experience of developing and implementing national policy. Experience of managing a team of people.
Desirable
Experience of working across organisations and with other agencies / sectors Previous experience in project management and planning
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.
Employer details Employer name North East & North Cumbria ICB
Address Stella House
Goldcrest Way
Newburn Riverside
NE15 8NY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)