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Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB
About
Contact
- Address
- Omega House
- 112 Southampton Road
- Eastleigh
- Hampshire
- SO50 5PB
- Contact Number
- 0300 561 0200
Digital Commissioning Business Partner
Accepting applications until: 17-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 17-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Omega House
- Address
- 112 Southampton Road
- Town
- Eastleigh
- Postcode
- SO50 5PB
- Major / Minor Region
- Hampshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Digital, Data & Technology
Job overview
Please note this organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require sponsorship.
The Digital Commissioning Business Partner is a senior member of the Digital Commissioning team, acting as the key link between commissioners and digital services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. The role plays a pivotal part in ensuring that commissioning priorities are translated into effective digital solutions, data capabilities, and system improvements that support better outcomes for patients and communities.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced digital, informatics, commissioning or transformation professional who is passionate about using digital innovation, data and technology to improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities and deliver sustainable improvements across the Integrated Care System.
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Success in this role will depend on your ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders, and work collaboratively across organisational boundaries. You will act as a visible advocate for digital transformation, helping to build digital capability across commissioning teams and ensuring that digital solutions enable the NHS shift from analogue to digital, hospital to community, and treatment to prevention.
Working for our organisation
We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.
We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.
We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.
Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:
· 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
· NHS pension scheme
· Sick pay policy
· Occupational health services including staff counselling services
· Flexible working and family friendly policies
· Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
· Health Service Discounts – offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working closely with commissioning, clinical, operational and digital leaders, you will provide expert advice on how digital technology, information, analytics and interoperability can support evidence-based commissioning, pathway redesign, service transformation and improved system performance. You will help commissioners maximise the value of digital investment by ensuring services are designed around the needs of patients, professionals and the wider health and care system.
You will have a detailed understanding of commissioning priorities, challenges and opportunities across a range of portfolios, including urgent and emergency care, planned care, mental health, community services and continuing healthcare. Using this insight, you will shape digital roadmaps, influence strategic decision-making, and ensure that digital capabilities directly support commissioning cycles, from planning and procurement through to service review and evaluation.
You will lead engagement with commissioners, providers and partners to identify opportunities for digital innovation, service improvement and pathway optimisation. This includes supporting the continued development and adoption of shared care records, digital commissioning tools, interoperability solutions and data-driven approaches that enable integrated care and population health management.
You will require a strong strategic focus, with responsibility for supporting complex digital programmes and workstreams. You will contribute to business cases, option appraisals, benefits realisation activities and investment decisions, helping the organisation understand the value and impact of digital transformation.
Please see the job description for full details and responsibilities.
Please note the following before applying:
1. We reserve the right to amend the closing date based on the volume of applications received. Vacancies attracting a high volume of applications may therefore close earlier than advertised.
2. In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
3. As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. As an ICB, we value diversity and are committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.
4. If you are successful and are joining from a non-NHS background, there will be an expectation that you will be engaged from the bottom of the pay band. If you would like to review the Agenda for Change pay scales in more detail and to view other benefits of working in the NHS, please visit the Agenda for Change website for further details.
5. New employees to the ICB will be subject to a probationary period of six months (some exemptions apply, please refer to the ICBs policy for full details).
We encourage and support our staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as this remains the best way to protect ourselves, our families, our colleagues, and patients from the virus.
We recognise that some candidates for accessibility reasons may use software to support their application. At our Organisation, our selection process ensures we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. We monitor applications and remain alert to misuse that misrepresents abilities including the inappropriate use of AI.
Person specification
Qualifications and/ or experience
Essential criteria
- Master’s level qualification or equivalent experience in digital, analytics, or business analysis.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Senior experience working in digital transformation, health informatics or supporting NHS commissioning.
- Experience influencing at senior levels and delivering complex digital programmes.
- Procurement, Finance and Information experience. Primary Care experience.
- Experience of drafting persuasive evidence-based narrative/documentation.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of the opportunities and challenges of commissioning within the NHS.
- Thorough understanding of the value of information in driving improvements in patient care.
- Strong understanding of benefits analysis techniques such as cost effectiveness analysis, real options analysis, multi-criteria analysis and value management techniques.
Communication and interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
- Embraces change viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Promotes organisational values.
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Essential criteria
- Innovative thinker – ability to take a creative approach to tackling challenges. Must be able to gather robust insight from qualitative data, taking account of bias.
- Expert in modelling benefits to lead on the development of business cases, in particular options appraisal, financial modelling and strategic planning within complex programmes.
IT and digital literacy
Essential criteria
- Some proficiency in digital tools relevant to commissioning (e.g., Power BI, Excel, SQL based tools, reporting platforms).
- Understanding of system interoperability, data standards and digital architecture concepts.
Project management
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan and manage multiple complex digital or data projects in parallel.
- Experience producing documentation such as business cases, project plans, resource assessments and benefits realisation statements.
- Ability to assess risk, manage interdependencies and ensure delivery against timelines.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Glen Wale
- Job title
- Associate Director of Digital Commissioning
- Email address
- [email protected]
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