Commissioning Support Officer | NHS England - ref. d3978023

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and professional individual to join the Public Health Commissioning Team in the East of England.

As Commissioning Support Officer, the post holder will work as a part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across East of England region to deliver the direct commissioning functions for Public Health Section 7A services for the Region.

The post holder is a key member of the Public Health Commissioning team whose overarching purpose is to manage the administrative support needed to facilitate the wider and Public Health team to carry out its functions.

In this way it will have a core responsibility for putting in place processes and procedures to promote and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge, and technology to improve, inform and support a portfolio of projects, services, and initiatives.

• Provide high quality project, service, initiative, and administrative support including information and analysis.
• Undertake reporting and analysis of information to support delivery.
• Be responsible for the smooth and effective maintenance of the administrative function.
• Liaise with a wide range of people, partner organisations and agencies, both internally and externally.
• Be responsible for managing complex and sensitive business and communication on behalf of the Public Health Commissioning Team, solving problems, and responding to unexpected demands.
• Organise meetings / conferences or other events as requested involving internal colleagues and high-level stakeholders including the provision of admin and business support as necessary for a range of meeting types.
• Oversee the appropriate and effective management of business support requests from team members within the Public Health Commissioning Team.
• Manage the delivery of admin support provided by admin support officers working in Public Health Commissioning functions. This includes line management functions for any direct reports where appropriate.

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

You can find further details about the job in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

• Project Management
• Improving Quality and Outcomes
• Enabling patient and public involvement
• Financial and physical resources
• Promoting equality and reducing inequalities
• People management
• Information management
• Partnership and cross boundary working
• Research and development
• Leadership for transformational change
• Planning and organisation
• Using insight and evidence for improvement
• Policy and service development
• Developing an excellent organisation
• Key working relationship

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Jan 2025