Band 7 Commissioning Support Manager - Uffculme Centre inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
FRI 8 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include leading initiatives such as the children and young people's transformation program, addressing health inequalities, and enhancing mental health support in schools and crisis care. The ideal candidate is expected to utilize data to inform decision-making and foster collaborative relationships with various stakeholders, including service users, healthcare providers, and local authorities, to improve mental health outcomes and ensure tailored care for the Birmingham and Solihull population.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Provider Collaborative's Commissioning and Transformation Team. We are a friendly team working to commission all-age mental health services. This role is predominantly working in the children and young people's space with opportunities to work in adults as well.
This is an excellent and exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to develop further their leadership skills and to work with clinical leads and senior managers across Birmingham and Solihull as the Integrated Care System (ICS) continues develops over the next year.
The NHS Long Term Plan set the context for the future of how NHS organisations, in partnership with local councils and others, take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population they serve as an integrated care system.
The ICS will enable local services to provide better and more joined-up care for patients by working more closely together. For staff, improved collaboration can help to make it easier to work with colleagues from other organisations. By making better use of data to understand local people's health, the system will be enabled to provide care that is tailored to individual needs..
The post holder will support the development of strategy, planning, redesign, policy, commissioning and performance management of mental health services across Birmingham and Solihull as a member of the Mental Health Provider Collaborative.
You will have responsibility for support and at times leading delivering key elements of the Commissioning and Transformation teams workplan such as:
- Children and young people's transformation programme
- Health Inequalities
- Mental health support teams in schools
- Crisis care
- Talking therapies
You will join a team comprising experienced commissioners from a range of professional backgrounds. We are committed to developing effective relationships with key stakeholders such as: children and young people, parents and carers, Acute Mental Health Providers, NHS England Specialised services commissioning, place based partnerships, GPs and Primary Care Networks, Local Authority and Public Health teams, other provider Trusts, voluntary and community based organisations and other third party partner organisations, to support positive working.
The ideal candidate will be able to use data effectively to explore key lines of enquiry and develop proposals which are evidence-based. They will work in a collaborative manner drawing upon diverse perspectives including those of people who use and deliver services.
Most importantly they will be committed to supporting improvements in mental health across the population of Birmingham and Solihull.
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For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
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