Public Health Contracts Manager

Job description
The Hampshire and Thames Valley Public Health Commissioning Team in the South East Region is looking for a contract manager to join our team. Our team’s purpose is to protect the health of our population by ensuring that high quality, cost effective nationally-prescribed screening and immunisation programmes are available and accessible to the whole eligible population. We are responsible for the local commissioning and transformation of these national programmes.

This role will be one of two contract managers who jointly lead on all aspects of contract management for the team, building effective supplier relationships across the acute, community and independent sectors, working closely with specialised commissioning colleagues and PH colleagues in the wider region. The role plays an important part in ensuring national standards are met through regular contract monitoring and the use of contractual levers where necessary. The postholder will ensure service requirements are enshrined in contracts, contract values and payment mechanisms agreed, and providers are paid correctly.

There will be opportunities within the role to lead specific projects and develop skills in project management and commissioning.

Duties Of This Role Will Include
• Preparing and managing the annual contracting round
• Monitoring contract performance and taking action as appropriate to ensure improvement
• Developing working relationships across NHSE, and with providers and other key stakeholders to ensure that commissioned services are safe, effective, of good quality and deliver value for money
• Co-ordinating and contributing to the procurement, negotiation and agreement of contracts
• Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The New NHS England Board Have Set Out The Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By
• 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.

The post holder will be a home based worker. The team meets face-to-face mainly in Southampton, with occasional travel to Oxford and London as well as to meetings with stakeholders in a variety of locations across Hampshire and Thames Valley.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Matt Hardy Job title: Senior Commissioning Manager Email address: matt.hardy3@nhs.net Telephone number: 07872814+35