About this role
Job summary
Are you highly organised, detail-focused and passionate about supporting healthcare contracts? We are looking for a Band 5 Contracts Officer on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave for 9 months to join our contracts team, providing support for the development, delivery and performance monitoring of healthcare contracts and the monitoring of new outcomes-based contracts.
Main duties of the job
As Contracts Officer the postholder will provide support to the management and performance management of healthcare contracts within the Cluster ICB team. This key role ensures that the day-to-day contract portfolio is managed, customer requirements from contractual performance reviews are delivered and will support and monitor new outcomes-based contract models.
About us
Under the Model ICB Blueprint and the 10 Year Health Plan, ICBs will adopt a more strategic commissioning role, focusing on population needs, reducing inequalities, and delivering the three shifts as defined in the 10 year health plan, all while operating within strict financial limits. The new organisation will operate on a larger scale with a revised vision and purpose, managing a commissioning budget of around £8 billion. Our role as a strategic commissioner is to transform our local NHS through exceptional commissioning and build an innovative health system fit for the 21st century that truly meets our communities needs.
Informed by high quality data and insights, we will radically re-imagine how we operate, making sure that every pound in our system delivers the best possible value for everyone we serve. We will encourage and support our people to grow and develop new skills and embrace new agile ways of working. Everyone is encouraged to contribute ideas, seek feedback, and take part in creating a listening and learning culture where insight leads to improvement. We will work as a team of teams, collaborating across services and professions to deliver the best outcomes for our communities. You will be encouraged, and expected to model inclusive behaviours, valuing diverse perspectives and helping to create a workplace where everyone feels respected, supported, and able to thrive.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role provides essential support for the development, delivery and performance monitoring of healthcare contracts. As new ways of working mature, you will also play a key role in supporting and monitoring of new outcomes based contract models.
Please see job description for full duties of the role.
Person Specification
- Experience
- Essential
- Understanding of contract management
- Previous experience of administrative support
- Organised and detailed in approach to work
- Ability to undertake minutes, action and risk logs and record keeping
- Confident in communicating in verbal and written form with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrable ability to prioritise effectively
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and
- oral or written communication skills
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters.
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise
- Skills for manipulating information
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in
- specialist area
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
- Basic knowledge of project principles.
- Previously worked in a similar position within public sector.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Dorset
Address
NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
NHS Dorset - County Hall
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)