Commissioning Support Manager
Our vision for the future of Northamptonshire’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.
Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Northamptonshire to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.
Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:
- Our patients and our local population come first
- We work together in an open and accountable way
- We trust, challenge and support each other
- We do what we say we will do.
Job overview
Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are recruiting a Commissioning Support Manager. The role will work as part of the Transformation Delivery Directorate and the wider Elective Care System. As a healthcare manager with experience in project management and planning, you will be working within a dynamic team responsible for planning and delivery of the ICB and system’s planned care programme
The role will involve working with senior commissioners, clinical colleagues and stakeholders to deliver the transformation programme across planned care.
The Planned Care programme covers a range of areas and specialties and there will be an opportunity to develop skills, support delivery and enable change for our local population.
This role is an excellent opportunity for a graduate with at least a year’s post graduate experience who would like to develop an understanding of commissioning NHS services.
Main duties of the job
As our Commissioning Support Manager you will:
- provide comprehensive support across the Transformation Delivery Team, with specific focus on the Elective Care and Cancer portfolios.
- support Senior Commissioners and wider team members by providing support to all aspects of programme (s) planning and delivery.
- provide key programme support to the Transformation Delivery Team to ensure that the portfolio of projects/ tasks is planned, managed and delivered effectively. The post holder will also be asked to lead specific work projects on behalf of the team as required.
Working for our organisation
As an integrated care system of health and care partners, we have a shared vision to work better together to make Northamptonshire a place where people are active, confident and empowered to take responsibility for good health and wellbeing, with quality integrated support and services available for them when they need help.
The NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Five-Year Joint Forward Plan sets out how we are working to achieve this vision, linking directly with the Northamptonshire Integrated Care Partnership ‘Live Your Best Life’ Strategy, published earlier in 2023, and also with the Health and Wellbeing Board Strategies for North and West Northamptonshire.
This plan is just the start of a process of working together as health, care and public sector organisations, and with the communities we serve, to achieve our shared vision. We will listen to our communities and ensure their voices are heard as we continue to develop the activity set out in our plan over the five-year plan period.
The successful applicant will be a part of the ICB Chief Operating Officer's (COO) portfolio. The Director of Integration is responsible for Elective care. Line Management will be provided by a Senior Commissioning Manager
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams.
- Work with members of the team to develop and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data
- Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to Project teams, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.
See attached Job Description for full details
Person specification
Your Qualifications
Essential criteria- • Degree level qualification plus further professional or work-based training, or equivalent work gained knowledge and experience
Your Experience
Essential criteria- Project management experience
- Experience of working in a health and social care environment
- Experience of supporting programme management and/or project management at a system level
- Experience of preparing agendas/papers for meetings and taking minutes/ action notes
Your knowledge and understanding
Essential criteria- Understanding of the responsibilities and functions of ICBs and how this role contributes
- • Understanding of and commitment to the principles, practices and promotion of equality and diversity
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria- Excellent communication skills with the ability to understand, interpret and deal with complex situations and issues
- Ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines
- Able to travel between venues to accommodate the needs of the role
- Ability to analyse, report and monitor the processing of data and information
Please note, there is an requirement for all positions at Bands 8b and above to be part of a On Call rota.
All new entrants to the ICB for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.
We are an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be welcomed and considered regardless of a person’s age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates and those applicants need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, including the Job Description and Person Specification, to enable you to pursue your application, providing that you inform us of any special requirements.
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