Job summary This is an exciting opportunity within the ICB (Integrated Care Board) for a permanent Band 8A Commissioning Manager within the Local Delivery Directorate in North Cumbria.
The post is full time; however, we are willing to consider part time or other flexible arrangements.
The successful candidate will live by our Values and Behaviours and help to achieve the ambitions and key priorities of the ICB.
You will also contribute to shaping the future across newly formed teams.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all our communities.
It has a wide range of functions including promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities.
Main duties of the job The Commissioning Manager will have a key role working as part of the ICB, ensuring that both ICB and locally agreed place-based priorities and objectives are met to deliver the overarching aims of the ICB.
The postholder will be a key member of the North Cumbria Local Delivery Team (LDT) and will deliver effective, high quality and sustainable services by supporting managers and staff within the LDT and where applicable across the ICB.
About us 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 £ 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.
Job description Job responsibilities The role supports the ICB in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning, and service delivery.
The role is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.
The post-holder will support and lead on some areas of locally agreed placed based priorities, ensuring that key national and local policy areas are addressed, and national and local targets are delivered.
The main priorities for the post holder are supporting commissioning of integrated community services some examples of this (albeit not inclusively) are virtual wards, ageing well, end of life and frailty services.
The post holder should have a commitment to working in partnership, co-production and to tackle health inequalities.
They should be able to use local knowledge of the area and contractors to inform effective commissioning of services.
Person Specification Training and Experience Essential Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in the primary care commissioning and transformation area Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) Extensive knowledge of Mental health, Learning Disability and Autism/Neurodiversity, children's, community and out of hospital commissioning and transformation areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy