Seinor Contracts Manager

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Senior Contracts Manager to join our Finance Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. This role will support the Associate Director of Finance – Income, Contracting, and Costing.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is accountable to the Associate Director of Finance for the delivery of a wide range of contractual arrangements as set out in the NHS Standard Contract with NHS commissioning organisations. This includes negotiating, monitoring, reporting and billing of contracts with an annual value of £520 million on behalf of the Trust.

The post holder will operate with a high degree of autonomy and will be expected to manage their own workload, priorities, milestones and deadlines.

The post holder will lead and manage the contracts team in supporting the department to meet the Trust’s objectives.

The post holder will assist the Associate Director of Finance coordinate the negotiation, sign off, implementation and management of the annual contract with ICBs, NHS England Specialist Commissioning and other commissioners. This has an approximate value of £520 million per annum.

The post-holder will be the lead contract manager for the contract with NHSE, who represent 90% of Great Ormond Street’s commissioning income, being the named contact point for formal contractual matters, attending formal contract meetings, co-ordinating and supporting the Associate Director of Finance in managing the contract.

The post holder will provide briefings on contracts, evaluating the financial, operational and risk associated with the annual contract and maintaining the contract register.

About us

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

GOSH Culture and Values

• Our Always values
• Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
• Educated to degree level or equivalent or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Qualified Managing Successful Programmes.

Experience/Knowledge

• Experience of managing teams and/or providing professional leadership to colleagues.
• Substantial experience of negotiating and performance management of highly complex service level agreements.
• Expert knowledge of the NHS commissioning/contracting environment
• Expert understanding of the current NHS policies and strategies
• Expert knowledge of the national tariff framework.
• Expert knowledge of the NHS Annual Planning process
• Knowledge of clinical data systems and the use of information and performance data in a contracting environment
• Appreciation of operational issues to enable contribution to discussions with non-financial managers
• Experience of interpreting and implementing policy.
• Sufficient knowledge of medical procedures as to be credible when dealing with clinicians
• Strong experience in managing projects, including major organisational change/service change
• Experience in negotiating NHS acute contracts
• Experience of disseminating and training staff at all levels on contractual and policy issues
• Experience in working in complex cultural environments.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent verbal, written, numeric reasoning and presentation skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex data and make sound decisions based upon this review
• Advanced keyboard skills for manipulation of data with high levels of accuracy and speed
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and communication skills and ability to build relationships
• Excellent management and leadership skills
• Ability to plan, prioritise and meet deadlines, adjusting strategies as appropriate.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information to non-finance managers
• Ability to interpret and apply standards for legally binding contracts.
• Ability to prepare and chair effective meetings.
• Experience of working with senior managers and clinicians in an NHS setting.
• Strong ability to analyse highly sensitive data and deliver the desired outcomes.
• Ability to lead, manage, support and motivate a team by setting clear objectives
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work under pressure
• Strong personal resilience

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.

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