Contracts Manager

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Foundation Trust as a Contracts Manager where you'll play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of contracts within a diverse and challenging healthcare environment. We seek an enthusiastic candidate with experience in performance management and strong interpersonal skills, ready to contribute to impactful patient care. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a dedicated team, ensuring high-quality service delivery while fostering professional growth through continuous development initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience of performance management frameworks and/or clinical contract management.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of contracts in a changing environment.
• Develop relationships with stakeholders and manage contractual priorities.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal

Organisational

Negotiation

Project Management

Performance Management

Education

Degree level qualification

Job description

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

Band 7 Contracts Manager - 12 months Fixed Term
• NHS Contract Development experience

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Performance and Contracts Team for an enthusiastic Contracts Manager. The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience of contracts and a willingness to develop these skills. There will be a diversity of challenges and opportunity if you are successful with your application; please read the job description for further information and to confirm your suitability against the person specification.

This post will allow the successful applicant to play a supporting role in the Performance and Contracts team with accountability to the Director of Performance and Contracts. Ideally you will have worked within an NHS environment with a proven track record of developing relationships and working with a range of cross-organisational stakeholders and successfully supporting a team to deliver organisational priorities. You will have or be able to develop the skills of supporting the delivery of contracts in a challenging and changing environment internally and externally.

You should possess good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, with a flexible approach to work and enjoy working as part of a team.

Above all we are looking for a keen, enthusiastic and confident individual who can show determination to the team / individual development and commitment in the role.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

You should possess good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, with a flexible approach to work and enjoy working as part of a team.

Above all we are looking for a keen, enthusiastic and confident individual who can show determination to the team / individual development and commitment in the role.

This post will allow the successful applicant to play a supporting role in the Performance and Contracts team with accountability to the Director of Performance and Contracts. Ideally you will have worked within an NHS environment with a proven track record of developing relationships and working with a range of cross-organisational stakeholders and successfully supported a team/s to deliver contractual organisational priorities. You will have or be able to develop the skills of supporting the delivery of contracts in a challenging environment.

Working for our organisation

Ideally you will have worked within an NHS environment with a proven track record of developing relationships and working with a range of cross-organisational stakeholders and successfully supported a team/s to deliver contractual organisational priorities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will have or be able to develop the skills of supporting the delivery of contracts in a challenging environment.

We look forward to receiving your application.

For further details please contact:

Name: Althea Clarke/SallyAnn Bailey

Email address: [e-mail]

[e-mail]

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification ideally in a numerate discipline or knowledge gained by post-qualification experience and Evidence of continuing professional development

EXPERIENCE:

Essential criteria

• Experience of performance management frameworks and/or clinical contract management and support within healthcare organisations, to include negotiation, schedule development, performance and contract meeting management, business planning, representing your organisation and dealing with conflict
• Experience of financial and information management, reporting, interpretation and presentation of data and Project and programme management
• Using existing templates and modifying templates to suit different contractual arrangements.
• Project and programme management

SKILLS

Essential criteria

• Ability to prioritise conflicting requirements to meet Trust objectives and Ability to deliver to strict deadlines

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe'

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Documents to download

• JD & PS band 7 (PDF, 192.6KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)