Senior Commissioner (Public health)
Newham is an exciting place to work with a young, vibrant and diverse population. We have an opportunity for an experienced and skilled Senior Commissioner to join the strategic Public Health commissioning team.
Senior Commissioner (Public Health)
The post is permanent.
£51,309 pa– £62,697pa
The London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Redbridge are collaborating to form a ‘back office’ sexual health shared service. The post holder will contribute to the ongoing development and performance management of the shared service, specifically the lead commissioner functions. This exciting opportunity will allow the post holder to shape how this service delivers sexual health services to our residents.
The post holder will work within the shared service and act as the lead commissioner for the north east London integrated sexual health service provided by Barts Health, a five year £60-80m contract which commenced in late 2017. The role involves working with directors, public health consultants and heads of commissioning within the shared service boroughs to enact collective decisions and actions pertaining to sexual health services.
The post holder will represent the shared sexual health service boroughs at a range of London collaborative meetings.
The portfolio of the role may expand over time to cover wider public health, health and social care responsibilities.
There may be direct line management responsibilities within the wider Public Health Commissioning Team. The post-holder will work closely with the external provider of our Business Intelligence systems which are Power BI based. The post will be managed by the Head of Commissioning – Public Health Commissioning
This will be a challenging role with an expectation of fast paced delivery and an adaptable approach on the part of the post holder. Stakeholder management will be a key asset given the cross borough working. Candidates must have:
- Experience of leading a complex Public Health related procurement through a commissioning cycle.
- Experience of managing contracts within health and local authority environments, including as part of partnership commissioning arrangements with health and/or local authority partners..
- Experience of complex tariff based provider remuneration, activity analysis and spend controls.
The London Borough of Newham is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and meet the essential criteria as specified in the Job Profile will be guaranteed an interview.
Priority consideration on all advertised roles will be given to London Borough of Newham Redeployees.
The London Borough of Newham is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Please be aware that a Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) check will be required for any position with access to these groups under the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In addition, the Authority reserves the right to request employees undertake a basic disclosure check (Disclosure Scotland) where required for the role this includes anyone who has access to (or information obtained directly from) a government database, or has a GCSX account. These posts will be required to have a Basic Disclosure Scotland check as per the requirements of BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standards).
Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Help Desk on: 0203 373 0909.
The post-holder will be based at LBN’s Stratford office.
For informal enquiries please contact Fiona Hackland Fiona.Hackland@newham.gov.uk