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Ref: 495-ICB-5938TG Vacancy ID: 6989543

Programme Director for Specialised Commissioning

Closed for applications on: 21-Feb-2025 00:00

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 21-Feb-2025 00:00

Location

Site: South East Region
Town: Surrey
Postcode: SL4 3DP
Major / Minor Region: Surrey

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £105,385 - £121,271 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 9)

Specialty

Main area: Programme Director

Interview date: 28/04/2025

NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.

The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, people and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will manage the relationship with the six ICBs and NHSE in delivering effective and efficient collaborative commissioning functions within the region. This includes leading activities through the commissioning cycle, including understand need, identifying best practice and co-designing services, contracting, monitoring performance and quality assurance of those services that the teams cover and working through dedicated commissioning teams.

They will support the Chief Executives of the six ICBs in delivering an effective collaborative operating model. The post holder will work with the ICBs and NHSE in the region to improve quality and performance and secure the delivery of high quality, effective, efficient and integrated services through excellent commissioning.

The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of at scale benefits across the range of specialised commissioning functions.

A copy of the full job description is attached.

Please note: this vacancy will close once a suitable number of applications have been submitted.

We make every effort to contact all candidates to let them know the outcome of their application. However, if you haven't heard back from us within 2 weeks after the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful.

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Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in large and complex organisations.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

Subject matter expertise and a high level of relevant professional, technical and demonstrable experience across a number of key areas relating to Specialised commissioning in healthcare and the provider sector.
Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
Significant evidence of continued professional development.
Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements.
Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring colleagues to work together to achieve a common objective.
Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
Experience of Policy development across large scale complex organisations or sectors often with a national impact.
Experience of developing commissioning specifications and managing large commissioning budgets.

Skills, Abilities & Attributes

Essential criteria

Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations.
Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
High level critical thinking skills and the ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making.
Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to management of the portfolio.
Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects, and learns from the contribution of others.
Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and can take actions which support and promote this agenda.
Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.