Senior Contract Manager inEastbourne inEastbourne PUBLISHED 23 DEC 2023

Income

• Support senior managers, clinical and associate directors across the Trust and externally to ensure that service changes are appropriately considered both from an income and also contract perspective, and to ensure any business cases have realistic income assumptions.
• Ensure all contractual requirements are met, including meeting regulatory requirements for Overseas Visitors

Service Line Reporting / National Costing:

• Support to the wider Contract, Income and Productivity team
• The post holder will help drive an analytical led approach to ensure trust collects all relevant contracted income, in particular through support to internal service level reporting.

Please refer to the job description attached.

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The Senior Contract Manager will be the Trust lead and subject matter expert relating to our contracts for healthcare provision and leading the day to day relationship with key commissioning members.

The post holder will manage our contracts team providing support to the Head of Income, Productivity and Contracts as well as the Chief/Deputy Chief Financial Officer.

The main focus is the contract portfolio, however as part of the wider Income, Productivity and Contracts team they will provide peer support to the Income (of which a fundamental understanding is required) and Service Level Reporting Team.

The Senior Contract Manager will work with service leads and commissions when new services are being implemented to ensure the contractual implications are understood and appropriately actioned. In a similar way, they will act as a first point of contact for commissioning issues raised to or by the Trust services.

Contracting

• Trust lead on contract with Local ICS (Sussex), with an annual contract value of £475m.
• Oversee the work of the Contract Team, with responsibilities for NHS England contracts, other commissioner contracts, and Provider to Provider contracts
• Through the Contracting and Income teams the post holder coordinates the process to resolve all contract queries and disputes with commissioners and the process to ensure a prompt and fair settlement is received.
• Assessing the impact of emerging local, regional and national strategic contracts issues on the Trust and working with colleagues and partner organisations to coordinate and implement local strategies and policies.
• Oversee the management of Service Level Agreements for services' relating to patient-care, including contractual agreements for the supply or receipt of services from other NHS organisations and non-NHS healthcare providers

Income

• Support Head of Income, Productivity and Contracts in the tactical management of the Trust's clinical income management with the ICBs, NHS England and Other Trusts including key support to Deputy Director of Finance with negotiations in the annual contracting process.
• To identify any contractual risks to income, and to work to manage and mitigate these risks

See Detailed job description and main responsibilities for more.