Commissioning Manager

Northumbria Group.; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and pension scheme

Professional development and training

Supportive team environment

Flexible and hybrid working arrangemem

Job summary

North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board in Newcastle Gateshead is seeking an experienced individual for a 12-month secondment to lead and support commissioning priorities. You will turn strategic aims into deliverable plans with autonomy, managing progress, risks and outcomes across Newcastle and Gateshead.

The role offers hybrid working between offices and home, a supportive team, and opportunities for professional development within a large ICB network.

Qualifications

• Education: degree level or equivalent in commissioning; CPD evidence.
• Experience: project management principles, budget monitoring, policy interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support commissioning plans, service reviews and pathway redesign.
• Monitor contracts, expenditure, performance, quality and delivery against outcomes.
• Identify and escalate risks, issues and dependencies.
• Use evidence and evaluation to drive improvement and informed decisions.
• Provide specialist commissioning advice and guidance.
• Build relationships with local authorities, NHS trusts, primary care and VCSE partners.]
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Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget monitoring

Public policy interpretation

Political sensitivity

Education

Degree or equivalent in commissioning

CPD evidence

Job description

Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development.

Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.

Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• Supportive team environment
• Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated individual to join the Newcastle Gateshead Neighbourhood Team on a 12-month secondment.

This is an opportunity to lead and support high-profile commissioning priorities that improve outcomes, service quality and value for money for communities across Newcastle and Gateshead. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you will help turn strategic priorities into deliverable commissioning plans and ensure that progress, risks, dependencies and outcomes are actively managed.

Please note this post is only accepting applications from current staff of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and staff members of North of England Commissioning Support (NECS).

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and supporting commissioning plans, service reviews and pathway redesign;
• Monitoring contracts, expenditure, performance, quality and delivery against agreed outcomes;
• Identifying and escalating risks, issues and dependencies;
• Using evidence, insight and evaluation to support improvement and informed decision-making;
• Providing timely specialist commissioning advice and guidance; and
• Building effective relationships with local authorities, NHS trusts, primary care, VCSE organisations and other system partners

Working for our organisation

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.

The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of commissioning and contracting, experience of delivering projects or service improvement in a complex environment, sound analytical and financial awareness, and excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills. You will be collaborative, organised and confident in managing competing priorities while maintaining high standards of quality and governance.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in commissioning
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience of project principles techniques and tools.
• Experience of estates, premises cost directions and capital funding relevant to sector
• Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
• Experience of operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.

Working Condidtions

• Able to travel across various sites where applicable

The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a riskto the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do nothold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.