Job summary
If you are a highly experienced Contracts Manager with a passion for making a difference in mental healthcare, we invite you to join our Charity, St Andrew's Healthcare.
Together, we can advance our mission of providing exceptional care and support to individuals with complex mental health needs.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity working for a national specialist provider. You will be an energetic and enthusiastic, detail-orientated and highly skilled and experienced contracts manager, ideally with mental health or community services provider experience.
You will be supported to further develop your skills, knowledge and experience using a mixture of mentoring, access to webinars, online and other training opportunities, and expected to keep up to date with NHS and local authority guidance and all other contract-related developments.
About us
We are St Andrew's. We are a national mental health Charity and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.
We provide care across a number of specialist services, including medium and low secure mental health inpatient and specialist rehabilitation, PICU and acute services, acquired brain injury, CAMHS low secure services, Neuropsychiatry, ASD and Learning Disabilities with a mission to support our patients on their recovery journey from inpatient through to community-based services.
Our charitable purpose is to relieve suffering, give hope and promote recovery. We achieve this by focusing on six core areas: Quality of Care; Delivering Value; Buildings and Information; People; New Partnerships; Innovation and Research.
Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work with a wide range of service and clinical leads, service development, data and analytics, finance and other enabling functions colleagues across the Charity to ensure that all contract requirements can be delivered, and that high quality performance reporting is produced. We manage a wide range of contract types with NHS and local authority commissioners, trusts and other funding bodies across the UK and internationally.
There is also the opportunity to get involved more widely in the work of the commercial directorate, for example, marketing, service development and bids and tenders.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- We are seeking a dynamic and experienced professional with significant NHS mental health or community contract management experience. You will be highly skilled in contract writing, performance reporting and have an in depth understanding of national reporting requirements and datasets.
- You will have an excellent eye for detail, be able to analyse complex issues and produce clear solutions and plans. Working in a fast-paced environment you will bring a passion for mental healthcare and a commitment to our mission of transforming lives.
- Our patients, their carers and your colleagues will expect you to lead and live the St Andrews CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
St Andrew’s Healthcare
Address
St. Andrews
Billing Road
Northampton
NN1 5DG