Job vacancy: Senior Commissioning Lead, Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board, Warwick

Job summary

Main area: Commissioning
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: 6 months (This is a 6-mth fixed term post. The role is open to secondments.)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 105-7369467

Employer: Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Shire Hall
Town: Warwick
Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/08/2025 23:59

Senior Commissioning Lead

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be a key role within Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (CWICB) in respect of transforming and commissioning children’s physical services. Working closely with partners in the Local Authorities (including public health), NHS Trusts, NHS England, Designated Clinical Officers, clinical networks and third sector organisations the role will be pivotal in the planning and transformation of Children’s health, care, support and services to ensure a joined-up approach across the universal and targeted 0-19 pathway, including for those with complex needs and disabilities 0 – 25 (including transition), and to enable the best possible outcomes for children and young people within the resources available. The role excludes SEND work.

The post-holder will provide subject matter expertise in relation to all children’s physical health services, including long-term conditions such as asthma, epilepsy and diabetes, as well as general paediatric services (acute and community). Work may also span areas and topics such as health inequalities, early years, urgent and emergency care, tier four obesity, the personalisation agenda, palliative care and oral health.

The post-holder will ensure adequate input from clinical colleagues, children and young people service users, parents, families and communities to support needs assessments, priority setting and work programme development, including service redesign.

Taking a population health approach that considers the wider factors that affect health such as culture, housing, education, environment and lifestyles, the post-holder will work collaboratively with communities and the third sector as well as statutory agencies and clinicians, to deliver the NHS England care bundles for children and young people and the ambitions of the Coventry and Warwickshire integrated care system.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a similar level in specialist field
Evidence of continued professional development
Proven knowledge and experience of national children’s health policy and national factors affecting direction of children’s health and care transformation programmes and services
Proven extensive commissioning, strategy, service development and redesign experience within children’s health arena and significant knowledge and experience of a multi-agency children’s health or social care environment
Proven ability to effectively, tactfully and diplomatically communicate, influence, negotiate and build stakeholder relationships in a political environment around children’s work
Proven ability to undertake needs/gap analyses, identify future risks, develop, collate and analyse quantitative and qualitative information from a range of sources, create and assess options even with incomplete information, draw conclusions and make sound recommendations with rationale
Proven high-level of planning and organisational skills; able to prioritise work from a wide range of varied work across multiple workstreams and develop programme and project management plans with milestones and deadlines
Proven ability to lead and drive projects, working effectively between strategic and operational activities where required, and proven experience of positively managing relationships with partners, stakeholders and colleagues
Significant experience of using Microsoft Office Suite tools including Excel, Word and Powerpoint with excellent keyboard skills and ability to engage in physical activities that include sitting for long periods of time due to this being predominantly a desk-based job
Demonstrable commitment to organisational values of: Aspirational, Open and Honest, Inclusive and Welcoming

Coventry and Warwickshire ICB are committed to supporting all employees to work flexibly. Flexible working is an arrangement which supports an individual to have greater choice in when, where, and how they work. Employees can request flexible working from your first day with us. The option to request flexible working is offered regardless of role, banding, or reason for wanting to work flexibly. If you are interested in this vacancy and would want to consider a form of flexible working, we would encourage you to reach out to us to discuss further.

We aim to be a great place to work and have many initiatives in place to support staff. In line with the Equality Act 2010, our organisation has an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group which meets on a monthly basis and has representation from a wide range of staff groups and supports a fairer and more diverse workplace for everyone.

The ICB has a Wellbeing Warriors group which has recently received Bronze level accreditation for Thrive at work and is working towards Silver accreditation. The Wellbeing warriors focus on physical, mental and emotional health of all staff providing tips, resources and webinars to support and educate staff from senior management to administrators about their wellbeing.