Head of Contracts & Commercial

An exciting opportunity has opened up for a Head of Contracting and Commercial at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. The senior role would be instrumental in leading the negotiation of the key contracts with commissioners ensuring the most favourable terms both financially and clinically. The role holder will implement the Trust Commercial Strategy and ensure that an effective commercial service is available for the Trust.
The post holder will operate as a visible member of the Trust's senior leadership team, establish collaborative working network with Associate Directors internally / Very Senior Management peers externally and contribute to the delivery of corporate strategy and organisation objectives., Leading the negotiation and monitoring of Healthcare Contracts, working closely to ensure the £800m Healthcare Contract Portfolio of the Trust is effectively negotiated and managed. Managing high complexity time critical negotiations to ensure financial risk management for the Trust.
Support the efficient and effective operational management of the Contracts & Commercial Department, aligning resources with priorities on a regular basis to ensure that the key priorities are delivered on time, with the maximum focus of staff resource into value-adding activities. These duties are critical to system level working and will be highly complex involving very significant technical skills across Statistics, Finance, Workforce and service development.
Working very closely with the Planning team and Key Performance Monitoring for the organisation alongside the maintenance of robust and accurate Contract activity and income forecasting systems. This will require converting complex multi-source datasets into insights for the Trust Senior Management, Trust Exec and System Senior Management., Provision of high quality and timely Commercial support /advice to the Trust Senior Management. Liaising and leading negotiations with Directors from Private Sector organisations managing multi million pound risks for the organisation and developing new business opportunities.
Leading the production of the ICS and Trust Annual Contracts of over £900m including Plan and regular local/regional/national reporting returns and final plans.
Working closely with the Business Support team giving advice on all income transactions, forecasts and budgets relating to commissioned contracts coordinating the completion of mandated templates, submissions and returns as required.
Supporting the achievement of all Contract activity & financial targets.
Provide support to the operational team with various projects and day-to-day tasks where needed. This includes assisting in the implementation of contract-related initiatives, offering guidance on contract management processes, and ensuring that operational tasks align with strategic objectives.
The post holder will be accountable for interpreting changes in government policy and assessing the financial impact of these changes on Trust Finances. They will propose and make changes to Trust policy as appropriate, ensuring that policies and procedures are developed and implemented in line with Trust and contractual requirements and obligations.
Please find attached job description and person specification for detailed information on the main responsibilities.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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