Children and Young People's Commissioning Officer

NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group

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Job summary

As a Children and Young People's (CYP) Commissioning Officer you will provide a key supporting role across a range of strategic projects on behalf of the Children and Young People's Team. This post involves strong partnership working across trusts, local authorities, primary care networks (PCNs) and voluntary sector organisations with a key focus on children and young people. The post holder will have a key role and focus in respect of the commissioning agenda including the NHS Long Term Plan and will be the key driver to deliver valuable project management support across the Children & Young People Commissioning Portfolio.

Main duties of the job

The Commissioning Officer will:

Be the lead for agreed work area. This will include the development and delivery of the CCG’s operational plans including working with colleagues to lead the identification, assessment and presentation to CCG members of options relating to commissioning strategies and intentions and ensuring the plans take into account public and user views.

Ensure the outcomes of service improvement and redesign are accurately represented in contract documentation, ensuring that the contractual agreement reflects the developmental work on redesign being taken forward.

Support the Head of CYP Commissioning to build upon the work to undertake a detailed mapping exercise to identify any commissioning gaps and service variation across the system and review the Specialist Children's Services Service Specifications to ensure these are up to date.

About us

The North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (NYCCG) is responsible for commissioning health care services for a population of 425,000 people across North Yorkshire, including primary care services, hospital care and mental health care. Passion, commitment and innovation drive the CCG’s ambition for a collaborative, responsive and modern healthcare environment fit for the 21st Century. This can only be achieved through the collective talents and capabilities of our professional, cross disciplinary workforce.

Nationally, proposals have been made for legislative changes to the structure of both commissioning and provision of NHS services from April 2022, leading to the creation of new organisations including Humber, Coast and Vale Integrated Care System. As result, employment with the CCG may be subject to organisational change. If you have any queries relating to these proposed changes and the potential impact on the recruitment please email nyccg.recruitment@nhs.net

Date posted

06 January 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£32,306 to £39,027 a year Agenda for Change Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

D9857-NYCCG-050

Job locations

Unit 1, St James Business Park

Grimbald Crag Court

Knaresborough

North Yorkshire

HG5 8QB


Elders Street

Scarborough

North Yorkshire

YO11 1DZ


Wetherby Road

Harrogate

North Yorkshire

HG2 7SA


Station Rise

York

YO1 6GA


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Commissioning Officer's functions will include (but not be limited to):

Lead for agreed work area. This will include the development and delivery of the CCG’s operational plans including working with colleagues to lead the identification, assessment and presentation to CCG members of options relating to commissioning strategies and intentions and ensuring the plans take into account public and user views.

Ensure the outcomes of service improvement and redesign are accurately represented in contract documentation, ensuring that the contractual agreement reflects the developmental work on redesign being taken forward.

Lead on any and all projects as assigned. This includes managing multiple, and at times competing or interdependent, projects as required.

Support the Head of CYP Commissioning, SEND and Children's Continuing Care to build upon the work to review the Specialist Children's Services Service Specifications to ensure these are up to date and appropriate processes for monitoring are in place.

Build upon a detailed mapping exercise to identify any commissioning gaps and service variation across the system and making suggestions of change to policy within their own area and beyond, potentially impacting on other service provision.

Develop, implement project plans, exception plans, action logs and maintain risks logs.

Schedule, plan and record key work-stream meetings and following agreed processes for reporting, escalating and responding to changing project priorities.

Utilise National and Local data to help inform service review and planning.

Contribute to the re-design of pathways.

The Children & Young People’s Team works at pace and the post holder will be required to prioritise and re-prioritise tasks as appropriate.     

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Commissioning Officer's functions will include (but not be limited to):

Lead for agreed work area. This will include the development and delivery of the CCG’s operational plans including working with colleagues to lead the identification, assessment and presentation to CCG members of options relating to commissioning strategies and intentions and ensuring the plans take into account public and user views.

Ensure the outcomes of service improvement and redesign are accurately represented in contract documentation, ensuring that the contractual agreement reflects the developmental work on redesign being taken forward.

Lead on any and all projects as assigned. This includes managing multiple, and at times competing or interdependent, projects as required.

Support the Head of CYP Commissioning, SEND and Children's Continuing Care to build upon the work to review the Specialist Children's Services Service Specifications to ensure these are up to date and appropriate processes for monitoring are in place.

Build upon a detailed mapping exercise to identify any commissioning gaps and service variation across the system and making suggestions of change to policy within their own area and beyond, potentially impacting on other service provision.

Develop, implement project plans, exception plans, action logs and maintain risks logs.

Schedule, plan and record key work-stream meetings and following agreed processes for reporting, escalating and responding to changing project priorities.

Utilise National and Local data to help inform service review and planning.

Contribute to the re-design of pathways.

The Children & Young People’s Team works at pace and the post holder will be required to prioritise and re-prioritise tasks as appropriate.     

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent qualifications or
  • equivalent experience
  • Post Graduate Diploma level qualification
  • Project management qualification or sound theoretical and experience of project and change management processes.
  • Knowledge of project management methodologies and or qualification

Desirable

  • Evidence of additional personal or professional development,
  • through gaining relevant specialist qualifications

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable NHS or public sector experience in a project
  • support /manager role
  • Experience of working with a range of stakeholders and
  • organisations
  • Experience of developing strategies, policies and procedures linked to project work
  • Evidence of managing projects and delivering to timescales
  • Experience of managing and influencing staff and promoting a culture of learning and development, where staff may be in other parts of the organisation or external to it

Desirable

  • Significant experience working with and supporting senior
  • roles in a complex organisation
  • Experience of promoting and awareness raising of issues to make the care for projects to staff and other stakeholders

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Experienceofworkingwithandinfluencingcolleagues, including those in other organisations
  • Ability to work autonomously within the remit of the role and
  • Projects
  • Ability to manage and deal with sensitive information
  • Experience of recording, processing and coordinating data in accordance with organisational and audit/external assessment requirements
  • Ability to compile reports and updates using IT packages to monitor, manage and report on progress within projects and to present these reports. Good Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • Demonstrable research skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Abilitytoworkwithstafffrom a variety of
  • organisations from a wide range of backgrounds
  • Ability to work on a number of interlinked projects at one time
  • Ability to travel independently to meet the requirements of the post
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent qualifications or
  • equivalent experience
  • Post Graduate Diploma level qualification
  • Project management qualification or sound theoretical and experience of project and change management processes.
  • Knowledge of project management methodologies and or qualification

Desirable

  • Evidence of additional personal or professional development,
  • through gaining relevant specialist qualifications

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable NHS or public sector experience in a project
  • support /manager role
  • Experience of working with a range of stakeholders and
  • organisations
  • Experience of developing strategies, policies and procedures linked to project work
  • Evidence of managing projects and delivering to timescales
  • Experience of managing and influencing staff and promoting a culture of learning and development, where staff may be in other parts of the organisation or external to it

Desirable

  • Significant experience working with and supporting senior
  • roles in a complex organisation
  • Experience of promoting and awareness raising of issues to make the care for projects to staff and other stakeholders

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Experienceofworkingwithandinfluencingcolleagues, including those in other organisations
  • Ability to work autonomously within the remit of the role and
  • Projects
  • Ability to manage and deal with sensitive information
  • Experience of recording, processing and coordinating data in accordance with organisational and audit/external assessment requirements
  • Ability to compile reports and updates using IT packages to monitor, manage and report on progress within projects and to present these reports. Good Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • Demonstrable research skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Abilitytoworkwithstafffrom a variety of
  • organisations from a wide range of backgrounds
  • Ability to work on a number of interlinked projects at one time
  • Ability to travel independently to meet the requirements of the post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group

Address

Unit 1, St James Business Park

Grimbald Crag Court

Knaresborough

North Yorkshire

HG5 8QB


Employer's website

https://www.northyorkshireccg.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group

Address

Unit 1, St James Business Park

Grimbald Crag Court

Knaresborough

North Yorkshire

HG5 8QB


Employer's website

https://www.northyorkshireccg.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Assistant Commissioning Specialist

Lorna Galdas

lorna.galdas@nhs.net

07872423618

Date posted

06 January 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£32,306 to £39,027 a year Agenda for Change Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

D9857-NYCCG-050

Job locations

Unit 1, St James Business Park

Grimbald Crag Court

Knaresborough

North Yorkshire

HG5 8QB


Elders Street

Scarborough

North Yorkshire

YO11 1DZ


Wetherby Road

Harrogate

North Yorkshire

HG2 7SA


Station Rise

York

YO1 6GA


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