Children and Young People's Transformation Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Children and Young People (CYP) Transformation Manager in Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). The role will work as part of the Transformation Delivery Directorate and the wider CYP Health and Care Partnership.
As an experienced manager with a demonstrable commissioning background in health or a local authority, the post holder will be responsible for commissioning integrated services based on best evidence, securing health gain for the child and young person population whilst offering the best value for money.
Working in partnership with stakeholders, the post holder will design, develop, and deliver transformation programmes and ensure children and young people's outcomes are achieved. This includes financial, stakeholder and programme management across children's mental health services and a key delivery role within the Transformation Partnership Programme.
The Northamptonshire Children and Young People's Partnership has a portfolio of large-scale, complex transformation programmes with a view to improving health outcomes for local children and young people and the quality and productivity of the services we commission., The Transformation Manager will be required to:
+ Help to take forward transformational programmes across children's services that will require contribution and governance from system leads and co-production with local children and young people to ensure high standards of delivery and achievement of the NHS Long Term Plan aspirations.
+ Work alongside clinical commissioners and system leaders to lead on the design, delivery and evaluation of locally agreed work programmes for children and young people's services. The post holder will be committed and able to use ambitious and innovative approaches to deliver person-centred, co-ordinated care and support for our local child and young person population.
+ Support the development of children young people and families strategies notably the development of integrated children's services.
+ Support the delivery of major strategic change whilst maintaining the effective engagement and involvement of all key stakeholders in commissioning projects across communities, schools, children's services, voluntary sector groups, primary and secondary care.
+ Deliver a wide range of commissioning projects from initiation to business case and on to implementation and delivery, to include leading time-limited project teams to deliver major service design.
+ Contribute to, and deliver, the strategic and business planning processes to include demand management, service and pathway redesign for the commissioning of children and young people's services.

Working for our organisation
The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It is directly accountable to the NHS and is made up of local NHS trusts, primary care providers, and local authorities.
The ICB is responsible for joining up care services to improve patient experience in the community. The Board includes a chair, the chief executive and representatives from NHS organisations, primary care (GPs) and local authorities (councils).

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.

Please refer to the detailed job description document which can be found in the document section of this vacancy.
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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