Senior Contract Specialist

NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group; Bodmin; Híbrido; GBP 49.000 - 57.000; Jornada completa

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NHS employee benefits

NHS Pension Scheme

Hybrid working arrangements

Descripción de la vacante

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly and NHS Devon are seeking a Senior Contracting professional to lead clinical contracting and procurement across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. You will negotiate complex contracts, manage performance, and provide expert contract advice in a matrixed environment.

The role supports governance, drives service improvements, and requires strong partnership with finance, quality, and commissioners.

Formación

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Relevant post graduate degree or equivalent level of experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Member of relevant professional bodies, if applicable.

Responsabilidades

• Negotiate and performance manage a portfolio of contracted services.
• Support the Senior Contracting Lead and Head of Contracting.
• Provide supervision to Assistant Contract managers.
• Collaborate with Commissioners, Finance, Patient Safety & Quality (PSQ) and Performance colleagues.
• Analyse very complex contractual issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Contribute to performance improvement in the team.
• Lead to ensure contracts deliver constitutional standards and meet Public Contract Regulations.
• Coordinate assurance and monitoring processes across ICB contracts.
• Develop new contracting approaches to meet ICB needs.

Conocimientos

Budget setting

Confidentiality

Professional demeanor

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Postgraduate degree

CPD - continuing professional development

Member of professional bodies

Descripción del empleo

Site Bodmin, Exeter or Truro Town Bodmin Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum (Pro Rata'd to hours worked) Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly and NHS Devon are responsible for planning, funding and improving NHS services for the people of Devon, Plymouth, Torbay, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

With an annual budget of around £5 billion, our purpose is to improve health, tackle inequalities and ensure services remain sustainable for future generations.

Since 2025, our two organisations have been working together, with a shared board, leadership team and staffing structure. While both ICBs remain separate statutory organisations, we operate as a single team to address some of the biggest challenges facing health and care across the peninsula.

At the heart of our work is partnership. We work closely with NHS trusts, primary care, local authorities, universities, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, and many others to develop local services.

We also involve people with lived experience to shape services around the needs of communities across Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Through these partnerships, we support innovation, improve access to care and help create healthier places where people can thrive.

Covering a diverse geography of cities, towns, rural communities and island populations, we stand together with a shared purpose: to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.

Main duties of the job

The clinical contracting and procurement team provide a comprehensive contract management(including performance management) and procurement function on behalf of the ICB across Devon,Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly for all clinical service contracts. The team support all clinicalprocurements.

The team provides advice, including advising on risk, for areas in their scope. Theyproactively manage the procurement workplan. They ensure necessary governance is in place and iseffectively managed for all areas of their responsibility, negotiating (including finance) contract details.

As part of this role, there will be a requirement to work in a matrix and flexible way across multipleareas/teams to support business needs. The objectives of the role will be regularly reviewed to align to organisational priorities.

Working for our organisation

We’re looking for people who share our commitment to improving health, reducing inequalities and making the best use of public resources.

Whatever your role, you'll be working alongside colleagues, partners and communities to help shape how health and care services are planned and delivered.

We offer the opportunity to work across a large and diverse geography, drawing on the expertise of colleagues from across the peninsula and collaborating with a wide range of NHS, local authority, voluntary sector and community partners.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, supported and able to contribute.

We offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements, opportunities for personal and professional development, and access to a range of NHS employee benefits, wellbeing support and the NHS Pension Scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job description for more details regarding this post

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

• A key part of this role will be responsible for independently negotiating and performance managing a portfolio of complex contracted services, which deliver high quality acute and non-acute care services within available resources, escalating, as appropriate.
• Supports the Senior Contracting Lead and Head of Contracting in ensuring that all contracts promote services which meet the needs of service users and effectively protect the health of local populations.
• Provide supervision to Assistant Contract managers.
• Works closely with Commissioners, Finance, Patient Safety & Quality (PSQ) and Performance colleagues, as part of a dynamic team, providing contract expertise and advice, which ensures the delivery and performance management of clinically commissioned service contracts.
• You will analyse very complex contractual issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Contribute to performance improvement in the team, taking a lead for identified areas.
• Leading to ensure that contracts deliver Constitutional standards, such as patient choice, and meet the requirements of the Public Contract Regulations.
• Works closely with finance colleagues, taking the lead to ensure that Non-ContractedActivity (NCAs) is actively and robustly managed, in line with national and ICB policies and procedures.
• Leading to coordinate assurance and monitoring processes across the ICB contracts inaccordance with guidance and ensuring equity of approach.
• Support the Senior Contracting Lead and Head of Contracting in developing newcontracting approaches that will meet the needs of the ICB.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Relevant post graduate degree or equivalent level of experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Member of relevant professional bodies, if applicable.

Knowledge

• Ability to support the budget setting for a department and/or service.
• Standard keyboard skills, with the ability to learn/use of a range of software.
• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
• Professional calm and efficient manner.

Experience

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
• Experience of managing risks and reporting.
• Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level.
• Experience of business planning processes.
• Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
• Used to working in a busy environment.
• Strong adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.

We positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of sexual orientation, sex, racial origin or disability. We are committed to equal opportunities.

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Name Barbara Jones Job title Deputy Director : Contracting & Procurement Email address [e-mail]