About this role
Job summary
North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and ambitious senior leader to take forward a key strategic role within our Commissioning function.Reporting to the Director of Commissioning (secondary care, northernalliance), this post will lead effective contracting and commissioningarrangements, promote integration and improve outcomes for the 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 role will be critical in ensuring that the ICB effectively commissions and contracts all services it is responsible for, ensuring ongoing service evaluation and re-design 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
The postholder will:
Support relevant Boards, Partnerships and Committees, deputising for the Director of Commissioning and multi-professional leadership team as required, co-ordinating relevant input into such meetings. Hold ICB corporate responsibility for the identified sector, covering all required ICB functions and professional inputs. Lead their team, providing strategic leadership and chairing specific meetings as appropriate. This will be within an agreed scheme of delegation with the Director of Commissioning. Be responsible for ensuring statutory regulations, national regulations and other relevant regulations are adhered to relating to the sector. Coordinate the work of the sector team to ensure that the ICB exercises its functions effectively, efficiently, economically, with good governance and in accordance with the terms of the ICB constitution and schemes of delegation. The role includes providing assurance that responsibilities are discharged effectively and economically, developing robust governance arrangements tomanage delegated resources and joint decision making where relevant.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Masters degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable
Prince 2 or Managing Successful Project Qualification
Experience Essential
Significant experience in leading and management of large-scale commissioning and/or strategic contracting programmes Significant experience in leading and management of large-scale commissioning and/or strategic contracting programmes. Experience of leading strategic planning and operational planning in the NHS and or LA. Experience of performance management and improvement approaches. Experience of overseeing the development and maintenance of business plans and strategies across multiple teams or organisations. Experience of development and execution of continuous improvement methodologies and improved outcomes. Experience of developing performance management reports using multiple software systems Significant experience of provision of executive leadership across and within organisations. Significant experience of provision of senior leadership across and within organisations
Desirable
Experience at senior manager, functional head/programme level within an appropriate healthcare setting
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
NE15 8NY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)