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Job summary

Main area
Offender Healthcare
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (The post is initially for one year but is expected to be extended to two years or permanently)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-site 2/3 days p/w and home based. Travel across region and nationally occasionally)
Job ref
277-7337577-KENT
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Western Jetfoil and RAF Manston
Town
Ramsgate
Salary
£66,455 - £76,896 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/08/2025 23:59
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H J Senior Commissioning Manager

Band 8b

Job overview

This post will work under the direction of the NHSE Health and Justice SE team. The SE Region Specialised Commissioning and Health & Justice team is responsible for managing a significant number of contracts, with a budget of £3.2 billion.

The team is also responsible for all Health & Justice functions in the South East which includes:

·       HM Prisons (Category B-D)

·       Young Offenders Institutions (prisons for 15-21 year olds) 

·       Immigration Removal Centres (IRC) (Holding centres for foreign nationals awaiting decisions)

·       Secure Children’s Homes (provide care and accommodation for young people who have been placed by local authorities)

·       Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC) (one stop location where female and male victims of rape and serious sexual assault can receive medical care and counselling, assist the police investigation, including undergoing a forensic examination)

·       Liaison and Diversion (L&D)

·       CYP Agenda

NHSE will work in collaboration with the Home Office to deliver healthcare services at the Western Jetfoil and RAF Manston sites. The post is initially for one year but is expected to be extended to two years or permanently.

***This role will be hosted by Oxleas however the successful applicant will work under the direction and supervision of NHSE London. NHSE London will be responsible for the day to day management of the post holder***

Main duties of the job

Key aspects of this role will be:

 Improving quality and outcomes

  • Ensure that the services that are commissioned demonstrate efficiency, productivity, sustainability and value for money continuously proving the quality of care.
  • Develop systems within the contracting process that clearly identify the level of expected performance against contracts, monitor and take appropriate action to address variation or poor performance. 

Enabling clinical leadership

  • Ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all NHS England/NHS Improvement activities.
  • Work collaboratively across the NHS England and NHS
  • Improvement matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio with the Domain Leads. 

Enabling patient and public involvement

  • Act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England.
  • Ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.
  • Embed patient and public involvement within NHS England at all levels of decision making.
  • Set up processes and systems to receive regular patient feedback to inform the commissioning process

Working for our organisation

 
 
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for full details. 

Key Functional Responsibilities 

Operational

  • Support procurement of scoping work on health services and resilience and translate outcomes into plans.
  • As senior work stream lead working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost effective way.
  • Operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
  • Support the portfolio of programmes in demonstrating value for money for the current spend through tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits. 
  • Deputise for the Head of Commissioning – Health & Justice, if required. 

Promoting equality and reducing inequalities 

•       Uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.

•       Create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action to ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.  

 

You will need to provide: 

Proof of right to work documentation 

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation 

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. 

 

Address History: 

5 years address history will be needed.  

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. 

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

 

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to a degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a CCG or Regional level in specialist area.
Desirable criteria
  • Project management qualification e.g. Prince2.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
  • Extensive knowledge of specialist areas (e.g. offender healthcare), acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to degree level equivalent.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy as it relates to health and justice, and appreciate the implications.
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.

Skills and Capabilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience and/or understanding of the (South East) Health Economy
  • Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
  • Developed written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
  • Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
Desirable criteria
  • Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice in their specialist field.
Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer. Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthPride In Veterans

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
Lisa Briggs
Job title
Head of Health and Justice
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07714777018

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