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Gillingham, Gb

Gillingham, Gb

Bromley, England, United Kingdom

• Lead on relationship management for NHS Commissioned community services, reviewing business planning processes, ensuring they meet regulations and priorities.• Responsible for annual budget cycle for out of hospital & urgent care services with an annual budget of circa £95 million, identifying cost pressures, producing cases to support change, managing the overall community budget, mitigating overspends & forecasting year end positions.• Ensure robust contract management circa 100 contracts, leading complex negotiations, chairing formal contract boards, holding providers to account for delivery against specification & requirements, utilising contractual levers.• Lead on commissioning for community & End-of-Life Hospice services, including contract negotiation, management, service review & transformation. Interpreting & enacting guidance / policies including Fuller, Neighbourhood working, Primary Care Networks & Primary Care / Community Care sustainability.• Responsible for various commissioning & transformation schemes, ensuring proposals are fully worked up with clear impact assessments on proposed changes to aid clear pathways, reduce duplication and identify efficiencies.• Programme lead ensuing compliance with contract & procurement regulations, developing commissioning / procurement pipeline processes and end-to-end commissioning cycle process.• Responsible officer for procurements in Bromley, including Urgent Treatment Centres - circa £6m per annum and Bromley community services circa £50m per annum, responsible for leading the end-to-end process, liaising with subject matter experts, ensuring the projects were successfully delivered.• Subject matter expert, providing strategical contract & procurement advice to senior leaders, managing the local annual commissioning cycle including production of local System Intention letters.• Member of Bromley Senior Management Team, line managing a team of staff, along with matrix management on various projects.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Managed the independent sector acute contracts on behalf of clients, including contract negotiation, creation and routine contract management.• Produced monthly performance reports on client’s acute activity, identifying trends and advising on relevant mitigating actions that could be enacted.• Supported the annual contracting process, liasing with other supporting functions including finance and Business intelligence to negotiate contractual terms.

• Client relationship manager across 5 clients (CCGs).• Led contract negotiations on behalf of clients for community and acute contracts across East Kent. Managing the annual contracting cycle.• Drafted and maintained contractual documentation.• Contract managed providers on behalf of clients, ensuring adherence to Key performance indicators, utilizing contract levers including performance notices as appropriate.• Analysed and interpreted community and acute datasets, identifying trends / issues and agreeing mitigating actions with providers.

• Established and maintained relationship and governance management between Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) and client (CCG).• Ensured monthly delivery of performance metrics, so that client understood Acute contracting position.• Ensured compliance with standard operating procedure between CSU and client (CCG).• Supported client in contract negotiation with acute providers, producing formal contractual documentation.• Undertook contract management business support on behalf of the client.• Analysed and interpreted acute datasets, summarizing key themes and trends and highlighting variances.

• Established and maintained an integrated performance management process, ensuring comprehensive un-derstanding of performance as measured against national, Trust-wide and locally agreed targets. • Monitored, analysed, interpreted and manipulated complex performance information and activity on a regular basis, highlighting variances and advising accordingly.• Liaised with senior management on identifying and enacting improvement plans.• Represented the directorate at contract and performance meetings, validating the current position to commissioners.

Diploma In Management, Managing Performance And Change

Ba Hons, Business Studies