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NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
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Contact
- Address
- Aperture House
- Pynes Hill
- Rydon Lane
- Exeter
- EX2 5AZ
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JobsContract Specialist
Accepting applications until: 31-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 31-Oct-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- NHS Devon ICB, Aperture House
- Address
- Rydon Lane, Pynes Hill
- Town
- Exeter
- Postcode
- EX2 5SP
- Major / Minor Region
- Devon
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Contracting
Job overview
Band 6 Contract Specialist, 1 WTE, 12 Month Maternity Cover Secondment
We’re delighted to offer an excellent opportunity for a Band 6 Contract Specialist to join our friendly and supportive team on a 12-month secondment to cover maternity leave. As a Contract Specialist, you’ll be at the heart of shaping healthcare for our community, taking the lead in planning, managing, and delivering a diverse range of contracts that underpin essential NHS services across Devon. You’ll be the go-to expert for colleagues in Commissioning, Finance, Patient Safety & Quality, and Performance, offering specialist advice to ensure every contract not only meets regulatory standards but also empowers patient choice and drives service excellence. Your days will be varied and rewarding, overseeing the smooth administration of contracts and meetings, guiding negotiations, and building strong relationships with both internal teams and external partners. You’ll thrive on the challenge of navigating complex communications and finding solutions that benefit patients and providers alike. Your commitment to maintaining clear, comprehensive records and championing best practice will be key to our continuous improvement, as you help us deliver on our promises to NHS England and our local community. By working collaboratively within a supportive, multidisciplinary team, you’ll make a real impact raising standards, sharing knowledge, and helping to ensure that healthcare in Devon is the very best it can be.
Advert
We are looking for someone who is not only organised and detail-oriented, but also driven by a genuine desire to contribute to the future of healthcare. Whether you already have experience in contract management or are looking to bring your transferable skills to a new challenge, we welcome your interest.
We understand the importance of flexibility and work-life balance, which is why we offer hybrid work arrangements for this role. You’ll have the opportunity to work remotely for part of the week, while spending a couple of days in our welcoming office at Aperture House, Exeter. This approach allows you to collaborate in person with your team, while also providing the flexibility to manage your work in a way that suits you best.
If you are ready to embrace this exciting challenge and contribute to the success of our healthcare services, we encourage you to apply! For any queries or further information about the role, please contact Lee Jordan, Head of Contract Efficiencies via [email protected]
Working for our organisation
NHS Devon Integrated Care System
As an Integrated Care System (ICS), we recognise now more than ever that we can only provide the care that people really need by working together. Together for Devon therefore represents a partnership where health and care services work together with local communities to improve peoples health, wellbeing and care. It aims to transform health and care services so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.
Our vision is simple: equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives. To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including: Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.
About NHS Devon
As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve peoples health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money. The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve peoples lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.
For more information, visit our website www.onedevon.org.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Eligibility to Work in the UK – Important Information
NHS Devon does not currently hold a sponsorship license to support visa applications. We have been able to successfully meet our recruitment needs without the requirement for visa sponsorship. As such, we are only able to consider applications from candidates who already have the appropriate legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce and welcome applications from all qualified individuals who meet this requirement. Thank you for your understanding.
Person specification
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Experience of stakeholder management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management.
- Expert knowledge of MS packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Further training or significant experience in specialist area.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
Analytical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action.
Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills for manipulating information.
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software.
Autonomy / Freedom to Act
Essential criteria
- Ability to work without supervision.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own and others workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Skills to be able to independently manage appropriate projects and tasks.
Equality & Diversity
Essential criteria
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Other
Essential criteria
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Strong adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Strong effective organiser.
- Demonstrate a desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lee Jordan
- Job title
- Head of Contract Efficiencies (CIP Programme)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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