Senior Contract Lead - Acute ISP In System

Are you a contractingprofessional looking to make a real impact in a fast-paced and dynamicenvironment? Join our team as a Senior Contract Lead, where you will play a keyrole in delivering excellent contract management services to our IntegratedCare Board (ICB). This is an opportunity to develop your career whileworking closely with senior leaders, healthcare providers, and stakeholdersacross the system. You will act as a key link across a number of contracts,supporting the ICB in achieving its goals.,

• As the Senior Contract Lead you areexpected to lead the provision of an efficient, effective, and co-ordinatedcontract management portfolio capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory andNHS requirements ensuring alignment with the goals of the ICB.
• This will include leading on the delivery of specificcontracts and / or specific portfolio, and support end-to-end processes forprovider management and specific contracting responsibilities in drivingtransformation, as well as value for money.
• This role will lead an efficient, effective, highquality, professional and well-coordinated contract management service for the ICBsacute care contracts across a number of providers and ensure that allstatutory, regulatory and NHS contractual requirements are met, and ensurealignment with, and delivery of, the requirements of each individual ICB. This will include relationship managementwith other ICBs and providing regular and ad-hoc analysis and reporting asrequired by the individual ICBs.
• The Senior Contract Lead will ensure that ICB standardprocesses are implemented and maintained, and facilitate discussions and advisecolleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of futureprocesses, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee theirdelivery.
• A key aspect of this role is to workeffectively and proactively with other teams in the ICB, other ICBs and CSUincluding Finance, Business Intelligence, Quality and Performance.
  
  Experience
Essential
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Experience of contracting and performance management
• Expert knowledge of NHS National tariff payment system, and associated financial and information flows
• Experience of working within a complex and challenging environment, and managing demanding contract relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes, projects and services on time using established project management techniques
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes and achieving financial target
• Extensive knowledge and experience of using the NHS Standard Contract, Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Member of relevant professional body
  
  NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) IntegratedCare Board is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning anddelivering health and care services for the communities of Buckinghamshire,Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
We work collaboratively with partner organisations including localgovernment, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and peopleand communities across the BOB Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS). Our key priorities are to increase healthy life expectancy and reducehealth inequalities for the million people who live in our communities. We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality ofopportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflectthe communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHSleadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people fromBlack, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, youngercandidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know areall under-represented in these important roles. Our Values are :
• Respectful we are inclusive
• Impactful we make a difference
• Integrity we are kind and fair
• Leadership we encourage leadership
• Collaborative we work together in apositive way