JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:Commissioning Officer

Grade:Band 2

Reports to:Assistant Manager - Commissioning and Performance

Responsible to:Associate General Manager - Commissioning

Base/DepartmentSummerfield House / Finance Department / Commissioning Team

Main tasks/overview of responsibilities

Trust Values & Behaviours - Responsibility for upholding the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour

Patient & Customer Focus / Communicate effectively with patients, families and colleagues and proactively personalise the service, connect with patients and carers whilst adopting the ethos of Safe, Clean and Personal.
Continuous Improvement / Identify opportunities to reduce waste and inefficiency and look at ways of measuring and auditing improvements and proactively develop goals and objectives in support of the Trusts vision.
Accountability / Recognised and accept and display personal accountability beyond the job role and towards problem solving and act with integrity and focus on results.
Respect / Be considerate of others, their contribution and needs, support and empower staff involvement and act as a guardian of the Trusts reputation and resources.

The Commissioning Officer’s main role is to support the NHS commissioning process from a provider perspective. The post holder will interact with a wide range of staff across the Trust that will include developing working relationships with consultants, specialist nurses, service managers, senior executives and support staff.

The successful applicant should be enthusiastic, demonstrate a willingness to learn new skills, be able to communicate well at all levels and be a competent user of IT packages, in particular Microsoft Excel and Word. Excellent training and a variety of experiences within the health service will be gained from joining this Commissioning team.

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Ownership of the Trusts bariatric referral process with responsibilities for: ensuring patient funding is secured; monitoring patient activity; and liaising with key internal and external stakeholders
  1. Collating and sharing activity data with external organisations
  1. Requesting approval for specific high cost patient treatments by liaising with service management teams, consultants and external organisations
  1. Reporting high cost activity and charges to the Trusts Income team
  1. Horizon scanning of tender opportunities which the Trust may be interested in as a service development
  1. Helping to secure funding for patients who live in areas not covered by a contract
  1. Collecting information for the Trusts monthly Corporate Performance Report
  1. Servicing various committees (including minute taking)
  1. Support contract negotiations with external organisations
  1. Take care of their own safety and others who may be affected by their actions or omissions. Adhere to Trust and department health and safety policies and use any equipment in accordance with the operating instructions
  1. Any other duties consistent with the grade and main purpose of the role, which may from time to time, be allocated to the post holder

This job description will be subject to periodic review and amendment in accordance with the needs of the Trust.

Student Placement – Commissioning Officer 1 of 213/09/2018