Commissioning and Planning Manager | NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

The postholder will work alongside the Strategic Programme Lead to support the development, delivery and oversight of the totality of the statutory commissioning function in line with the ICB Operating Model. The postholder will also be required to work collaboratively across directorates within the ICB, specifically with Planning, Performance and BI, Contracting, Finance, Strategy and Development, Quality, Primary Care, Digital, Workforce, Medicines Optimisation and Service
Improvement to ensure that the Commissioning Cycle is embedded across the organisation.

The postholder will be required to provide support from a commissioning perspective to Place and Provider Collaboratives, identifying priorities and setting intentions to address the improvement in patients outcomes, health inequalities and challenges in relation to rurality. This will also include responsibility for advocating and planning for the allocation of resources to Place and Provider Collaboratives to encourage local commissioning and ownership of delivery.

The postholder will also play a supporting role in whole scale system change, facilitating the delivery of significant programmes of work and ensuring Public Engagement and Consultation in relation to substantive service change is undertaken. The individual will be expected to work across the ICS and with NHSE to undertake this robustly, safely and in line with legal requirements.

The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:

• Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate.


• ICS partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives.


• Non-NHS organisations.


• Members of the public and service users as appropriate.


• Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual

objectives.

• External consultancy, as required.


• Demonstrate commissioning skills with a specific focus on commissioning for person centred care and use of the PHM approach to develop and embed outcome-based commissioning across all speciality areas.


• Play a supporting role in the formulation, implementation and ongoing review of major system wide commissioning plans that have impact on the wider population working with partners across the ICS including supporting complex and sometime contentious change at significant scale and pace.



• Monitor, interpret and assure progress against deliverables including providing planning and performance support to Local Care and Community provision linking to the BI, Planning and

performance function.

• Provide support to the team in relation to public engagement and Consultation and the legalities that surround this.


• Able to evaluate complex information to inform recommendations and decision making.


• Able to support the process for complex and sometimes contentious change and to provide programme support to deliver this at significant scale and pace.


• Ability to develop and deliver robust presentations to a wide audience.


• Solid relationship building skills and ability to work closely with Place and Provider Collaboratives. Including providing the programme management support to planning for delegation.


• Support the delivery successful procurements in line with the NHS Provider Selection Regime.


• Support the development of Financial Improvement Plans in relation to commissioning.


• Support the successful handover of programmes to the Delivery and Service Redesign team for

delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our compassionate, inclusive, and values-driven organisation at a time of significant change and opportunity. As a key member of the Commissioning Team you'll have the opportunity to lead and support significant programmes of work, working closely with our Planning, Performance and BI team with a particular focus upon community services.

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is also going through a period of change as an organisation to ensure that we are fit for purpose and able to respond to the local challenges. As a senior manager in the organisation, you will support putting in place the new Operating Model and driving the creation of a workplace where everyone's unique perspectives and talents are celebrated, and where compassion guides our actions every step of the way.

Interviews for this role are scheduled for 25thSeptember 2024 and will be held face to face in Wellington Civic Centre, Larkin Way, Tan Bank, Wellington, Telford, TF1 1LX.