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Job summary

Main area
Administration
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-COF10665-Y
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Great Dover Street
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 inc HCA per annum (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/03/2025 23:59

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Contract Monitoring Developer

NHS AfC: Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

We are currently recruiting for a new Contract Monitoring Developer within our Contract Monitoring team.  The post holder will work with the Development Manager to manage the Contract Monitoring System to enable internal and external reporting at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospitals.  

We are seeking an experienced Contract Monitoring Developer with excellent technical and interpersonal skills.   The successful candidate will have demonstrated excellent knowledge of NHS Data and database management tools. They will also have  strong analytical skills working with large and complex data sets.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder is responsible for providing technical support to the Contract Monitoring team in assuring and reporting the Trust’s contractual position to external and internal audiences, with a monthly value of approx. £200m.

The Trust has implemented a new Contract Monitoring System (CMS), which the post-holder will maintain. Using sound technical skills, the post-holder will work with the Contract Monitoring team, and stakeholders, to standardise data and transform it into information useful to all end users.

The post-holder is responsible for delivering the technical development of the CMS by:

·         Ensuring the current rules for assigning activity groupings and tariffs are accurate as well as the rules for determining the appropriate commissioner

 

The post-holder will provide advice and guidance to colleagues on:

·         HRGs, tariff structures, PSS allocation rules

·         NHS Clinical Information 

to enhance the understanding of Trust activity by both internal and external audiences.

 

The post-holder will support delivery of the Trust’s contracting strategy by:

·         aligning Contract Monitoring with the Trust’s income plan;

·    developing and maintaining master look-up files that determine how contracting information is presented and categorised.

As part of the Contract Monitoring management team, the post-holder will be expected to contribute to the broader information management agenda of the Trust.

Working for our organisation

Our Values

Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that we all understand and reflect these values in our work. We are:

Caring – we put patients first

Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence 

Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The attached job description and person specification documents contain the detailed requirements and responsibilities for this role.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Graduate with high level of numeracy
  • Degree in informatics-related discipline, or equivalent experience within the area of information management
  • Knowledge of current NHS issues relating to acute hospital contracting information management including national tariffs, HRGs, SUS, contract monitoring

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of NHS data including its structure, definitions and relationship to clinical activity recording
  • Experience of working with contract monitoring and experience of working with contract monitoring software suppliers
  • Broad experience of using information derived from large and complex data sets
  • Considerable post-graduation experience required in a post with a significant analytical component
  • Experience in collection, management, reporting and presentation of financial and activity data
  • Experience of managing staff, including staff development

Skills/ Knowledge / Ability

Essential criteria
  • Mature and confident manner capable of negotiating and influencing clinical and managerial staff
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work as part of a team and operate effectively in a multidisciplinary environment
  • Demonstrable ability to interpret meaning of numeric reports and explain complex concepts to a lay audience
  • Excellent organisational skills with a demonstrable ability to balance competing demands and priorities
  • Good information presentation skills, evident in use of graphics and design of reports
  • Advanced Excel skills including macros
  • Self-motivated with genuine interest in subject-matter
  • Specific experience of Power BI and Qlikview
  • Demonstrable aptitude for SQL and techniques of database design, management and interrogation. Including the use of Sequel Server Integration Service (SSIS) from Server Data Tools (SDT)
Desirable criteria
  • Advanced knowledge of a range of report development software and techniques
  • A high standard of written skills, evident in report writing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Daniel Chiu
Job title
Contract Monitoring Development Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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