Job summary Are you ready to make an impact, lead positive change, and shape the future of patient services?
Do you excel at managing multiple priorities, influencing others, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment?
We are seeking a dynamic and confident Partnerships Manager to join our team, playing a key role in delivering community-based commissioning and transformation across Derbyshire.
This position requires travel within the Derbyshire region and offers flexibility with a hybrid work model, combining home and office-based working.
This fixed-term contract or secondment is available until 30th September 2026.
If you're driven by purpose and eager to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)is unable to sponsor international applicants in this role.
Interviews will be held on Friday 10th January 2025.
Main duties of the job The ideal candidate will have a strong background in service transformation and commissioning, coupled with outstanding organisational and project management abilities.
In this role, you will take the lead on specific work areas, engaging and collaborating with a diverse range of system partners and stakeholders.
You will gain in-depth knowledge in your areas of responsibility, providing oversight for effective service delivery and pathways and fostering improvement opportunities across the system.
Above all, you'll bring enthusiasm, motivation, and excellent communication and influencing skills, along with a genuine passion for enhancing patient experiences and healthcare services across Derbyshire.
Please ensure you have approval from your employer or line manager before submitting a secondment application.
About us NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population.
ICSs are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area.
Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £ billion the ICB has a staff base of approximately 500 people.
At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA.
We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job description Job responsibilities PLEASE NOTE: To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area; Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent; Experience Essential Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments; Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level; Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment, or similar Other Essential Ability to travel independently across the region and occasionally beyond.
Values Essential Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team' Skills Essential Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources; Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required; Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.