Band 8B Head of Contracting

As Head of Contracts, the post holder will lead and work as part of a dynamic team delivering an effective contracting service supporting managers, clinicians, and staff across Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be responsible for leading, co-ordinating, and managing contracts across a portfolio of Trust health care income contracts, circa £300m.

They will develop constructive working relationships with all commissioners, material sub-contractors and partners, Integrated Care System (ICS) leads, Public Health leads, and wider provider stakeholders, ensuring all contracts are negotiated and managed appropriately to meet the requirements of the Trust and in line with national guidance and local policy.

The post holder will be the management lead within the Trust for providing contracting expertise and advice and will therefore have specialist knowledge in NHS contracting.

The post holder will lead the contracting element of the team and work closely with the wider performance team to ensure all elements of contract and performance are managed to a high standard.

Responsible for:

1. Two (2) Contract and Performance Managers
2. One (1) Contract and Performance Support Manager
3. One (1) Contract and Performance Support Officer
4. One (1) Contracts Administrator

Budgetary responsibility for circa £300 million contractual income.

Main duties of the job:

1. To be responsible for the planning, negotiation, development, and implementation of contracts with commissioners and external organisations, including the developing roles of the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Partnerships predominantly within the Birmingham and Solihull ICS.
2. To oversee and manage local relationships with relevant commissioners ensuring that national guidance and local policy is applied and contractual income is protected.
3. To take responsibility and accountability for the planning, collation, management, and communication of all documentation relating to contractual negotiations throughout the negotiation period and subsequently ensuring all matters are included in appropriate contract documentation.
4. To take responsibility for developing and implementing clear policy and procedures to ensure the Trust mitigates against contractual risks including a contract change/variation/notice procedure, management of an active contract logs, information request procedure, SLA register.
5. To ensure that all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), deliverables, and risks (including mitigating actions) are communicated to all relevant parties within the organisation prior to and post contract sign-off.

(See attached JD for full duties)

About us:
Be Part of Our Team…

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Job description:
Job responsibilities:

You will have extensive experience within NHS contracting and commissioning roles with direct experience of leading, managing, and reporting on NHS Contracts and an understanding of associated tariffs. You will be confident advising senior managers and their teams and in representing the Trust in Commissioner discussions. You will embody and role model our Trust values and help shape and deliver our strategic objectives.

Please see the attached full job description and personal specification.

Person Specification:
Essential:

• Educated to master’s level or equivalent
• Evidence of management qualification/ Continuous Professional Development

Experience:
Essential:

• Extensive relevant experience operating in a senior contracting and performance management role.
• Relevant senior manager experience of negotiating and working with commissioners in a Health environment.
• Extensive relevant experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Extensive relevant experience in the analysis and presentation of complex information.
• Significant experience of preparing papers, reports including Board level reports.
• Significant experience in developing contractual processes to manage contracts effectively.
• Significant experience in the use of PC including relevant applications excel, word etc. tools to manipulate, analyse and present information.

Skills and Knowledge:
Essential:

• Range and level of skills Depth and extent of knowledge

Personal Qualities:
Essential:

• Ability to develop productive relationships and influence others to engage fully in relevant work.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.

Employer details:
Employer name:
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address:
Trust HQ – Priestley Wharf
3 Holt Street
Birmingham
B7 4BN

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