Associate Director - Children & Young People Integrated Commissioning
Job Category : Interims
Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £400.42 per day
This is a six month interim role working on children’s health and care commissioning. Work priorities will include:
a) Review of community paediatric services and support new models
b) Finalising specifications for commissioned children’s community health services
c) Implementation of change to children’s SLT and OT services
d) Working across agencies to agree priorities for joint working on children and young people services
Duties and Responsibilities
The post holder will:
⦁ Work closely with colleagues in the ICS and other key partners and stakeholders across the local health & care system in all areas of work.
⦁ Lead and co-ordinate commissioning in all assigned areas as part of the Children and Young People’s Integrated Commissioning Programme.
⦁ In all assigned areas, the post holder will undertake:
⦁ development of strategy, including commissioning strategies to agree and improve outcomes for children, young people and families of Bromley.
⦁ ensure appropriate needs assessments are undertaken and that commissioning strategies are evidence based.
⦁ pathway redesign.
⦁ development and implementation of relevant service and quality specifications and associated contracting mechanisms.
⦁ development and implementation of performance and outcome measures, and relevant evaluative frameworks.
⦁ children and families and public engagement, working with the communications & engagement team to ensure effective stakeholder engagement in assigned areas of commissioning responsibilities.
⦁ coproduction of service design and service outcomes with children, young people, parents and carers
⦁ be the responsible officer for ensuring good value for money across services and lead on projects to achieve financial efficiencies and better outcomes for children and their families.
⦁ take commissioning responsibility for both the CCG & LBB in managing joint funding processes for individual service users, acting within agreed protocols.
⦁ support relevant provider market development and procurement initiatives.
⦁ support relevant CCG and LBB governance and assurance processes
⦁ Co-ordinate contract management and performance arrangements for assigned commissioned services with relevant internal and external colleagues, stakeholders and partners (e.g. CCG Contracts Team and LBB Placements and Brokerage Service).
Education / Qualifications
Educated to masters level with additional in depth professional knowledge in own discipline over a
significant period
Evidence of ongoing professional and personal development
Management qualification
Experience
Experience of leading and helping to develop an integrated commissioning function and/or care service at a local level, working across multiagency settings, including within a health commissioning organisation and a local authority.
Senior management experience of commissioning health and/or social care across settings of care e.g. primary, secondary and community care
Experience and understanding of priorities attuned to children’s and family services with an acute awareness of safeguarding issues that children’s services manage day to day with the complexities and the high demand that this can place upon services provided to children.
Proven experience of planning, policy and development at senior level
Experience of successfully managing commissioning budgets and
negotiating service agreements
Experience and knowledge of public and service user involvement to influence service development.
Specialist knowledge of policy, redesign and contractual requirements across a broad range of commissioning areas
Evidence of delivering on ideas and concepts
Experience of change management and quality improvement in a complex environment
Experience of delivering financial and service benefits in change management
Experience of managing, supporting and developing staff at different levels
Significant experience of dealing with a variety of people and range of
professionals in an appropriate manner
Knowledge of NHS and local authority service development, improvement agendas; relevant quality standards and practice guidance
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