Job summary

We are looking for a Senior Mental Health Commissioning Manager to jointhe Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Commissioning team in NHSSussex. This role provides an excitingopportunity for you to accelerate improvements in local children and youngpeoples emotional wellbeing and mental health support and care, and support thedelivery of our ambitious plans in Sussex.

Main duties of the job

You will undertake both locality and at scale commissioning of mentalhealth services for children and young people.You will be responsible for delivering key priorities and programmes tosupport the delivery of system wide strategy for children and young peoplesemotional wellbeing and mental health.The post holder will be the commissioning lead in Brighton and Hove andwill primarily take responsibility for delivery in the locality, but will workclosely with mental health commissioners across Sussex and as such lead Sussexwide programmes of work.

For moreinformation about the role, and for an informal chat, please contact JaneTaylor, Senior Mental Health Commissioning Manager or 07785 344326 Lizzie Izzard, Head of Children and YoungPeoples Mental Health Commissioning or 07407 434480.

About us

NHS Sussex ICB recognises the positive valueof diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination and welcomes applications from people of diverse backgrounds and identities. Weparticularly welcome applications from disabled and ethnically diverse candidates as these staff groups are currentlyunder-represented throughout our organisation currently. We have also made a positive commitment to employing people from the Armed Forces Community,

We are also committed to enabling team membersto work in an agile, more flexible way, recognising that this will lead to moreeffective and efficient ways of working. We will empower our people to workwhere, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to optimiseperformance and delivery of results. Smarter working is not just related toworking from different locations or at different times. It is about gaining thebenefit of utilising technology to change work practices and to workdifferently which should increase the effectiveness of the service and deliverbenefits to ICB business.

NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net ZeroCarbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged andsupported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.

Workingfor us – Sussex Health and Care

Date posted

14 April 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£48,526 to £54,619 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

D9146-ICB-6417SP

Job locations

Wicker House

High Street

Worthing

BN11 1DJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Thisis a key role in the Children and Young Peoples Mental Health CommissioningTeam.

Theteam has ambitious plans to develop children and young peoples emotional andmental well-being services and support across Sussex. The role supports theHead of Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Commissioning to undertakeboth locality and at scale commissioning of mental health services for childrenand young people to ensure delivery of the plans.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Thisis a key role in the Children and Young Peoples Mental Health CommissioningTeam.

Theteam has ambitious plans to develop children and young peoples emotional andmental well-being services and support across Sussex. The role supports theHead of Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Commissioning to undertakeboth locality and at scale commissioning of mental health services for childrenand young people to ensure delivery of the plans.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
  • Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, Integrated Care Boards, Integrated Care partnerships and provider and commissioning organisations.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
  • Understanding Public Sector
  • Demonstrable experience of working in Health Environment
  • Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects

Desirable

  • Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
  • Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement

Other

Essential

  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
  • Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
  • Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
  • Professional calm and efficient manner
  • Effective organiser, influencer and networker
  • Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.

Desirable

  • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
  • Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, Integrated Care Boards, Integrated Care partnerships and provider and commissioning organisations.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
  • Understanding Public Sector
  • Demonstrable experience of working in Health Environment
  • Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects

Desirable

  • Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
  • Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Knowledge of Financial Systems monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement

Other

Essential

  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
  • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
  • Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
  • Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
  • Professional calm and efficient manner
  • Effective organiser, influencer and networker
  • Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.

Desirable

  • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales