Senior Contracts Manager

Job overview

The Trust’s Contracting Function is embedded within a very well-led Finance Department that offers fantastic opportunities for training and career growth. The team provides a highly effective and responsive contracts management service to the Trust, ensuring Trust compliance with contractual requirements, identifying and mitigating contractual risks (to minimise Trust’s exposure), whilst delivering its operations in line with Trust’s values and objectives.

Day-to-day team function involves developing, negotiating and agreeing NHS patient-treatment contracts on behalf of the Trust, providing ongoing contract management by proactively monitoring and managing contract performance to ensure maximum income recovery (on income generating contracts) and value for money (on expenditure contracts).

To bring a high level of expertise to the management of the Trust’s contracting process and act as the main interface with Commissioners. To ensure that the Trust’s Executive is made aware of developments with regard to national and local commissioning. To ensure Trust compliance with all contractual obligations and to interpret, advise and implement national guidance in respect of the National Tariff. To manage complex and challenging discussions with Trust clinicians with regard to a range of contractual requirements, such as the implementation of clinical Service Specifications.

Main duties of the job

Develop and implement a Trust Contracting Strategy in conjunction with the Head of Contracts and colleagues across the Trust.

Responsible for the negotiation of the Trust’s legal Contracts with clinical commissioners.

Be the Trust’s expert on commissioned Services, The National Tariff and the NHS Operating Framework ensuring that key staff are fully briefed, and implement, where required, changes mandated by national guidance.

Interpret and implement national and local Commissioning policies and business intentions.

Responsible for the production of Contract proposals and that subsequent sign off with commissioners is in line with national timetables, ensuring that funded activity levels are robust and enable the Trust to meet national Access targets.

Ensure timely production and distribution of monthly contract monitoring reports to Commissioners and, working with Operational leads, to respond to issues from commissioners on contract performance.

Develop contract workshops for key Trust user groups to improve the levels of understanding, increase transparency and improve engagement of NHS Contracts.

Manage and co-ordinate communication over policies and performance targets between commissioners and Trust clinical services, including understanding the clinical implications of managing particular services and making judgements about when activity management is appropriate.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD; B rilliant people, O utstanding care, L eaders in Research, Innovation and Education, D iversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.