Band 8a Commissioning Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

This role gives the opportunity for hybrid working and you will typically be asked to work in a hybrid way, working from your home and also from Trust HQ The Uffculme Centre, or any other agreed site.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• Educated to master's level or significant experience in a senior NHS managerial role in a specialist area relevant to the job description.
• Commissioning experience and competencies across the commissioning cycle.

Desirable

• Experience of collaborative commissioning. Experience working in mental health inpatient settings and/or mental rehabilitation services. Membership of a relevant professional body.

Communication skills

Essential

• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; negotiate with senior stakeholders; and present to large and influential groups, including patient groups.
• Ability to monitor and work with provider leads to ensure compliance with performance targets.

Analytical skills

Essential

• Strategic thinking, including anticipating and resolving problems and analysing service performance to ensure targets are achieved.

Planning Skills

Essential

• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes, develop project plans and allocate resource requirements accordingly.

Desirable

• Ability to develop strategies for integrated pathway across programme area.

Management Skills

Essential

• Ability to respond flexibly, manage competing priorities and work across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to diagnose resistance to change, influence attitudes and motivate individuals and groups.

Autonomy and Freedom to Act

Essential

• Ability to use initiative, determine relevant actions and make recommendations to the sponsor or manager to improve delivery and policy compliance.
• Experience of researching best practice across public, private and international settings and advising on relevant implementation.

Financial and Physical Resources

Essential

• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Putting the long -term health, social care and well - being needs of the population first ("system first"). Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve excellence in everything we do in BSol. Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes. Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times. Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective.

Interpersonal Skills

Essential

• You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times. You are respectful to others and listen to others. You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role. Professionalism and understanding difference is key.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas. Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Yardley Court, Frederick Road

Birmingham

B15 1JD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/