South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust & George Eliot NHS Trust has a 12 month secondment opportunity for the role of Senior Contracts Manager. As an essential member of the Income & Contracting team you will be responsible for providing a comprehensive contracting management service, including ongoing management and monitoring of all contracts to ensure compliance, development of service specifications and coordination of key information to support contract performance.

Technically strong, with in-depth contracting experience and an appreciation of the current NHS regimes. Due to the complexities of the information that you will be dealing with, it is essential you have the capabilities to understand, interpret and convey financial concepts clearly and persuasively to finance and non finance colleagues. Strong Communication skills, both verbal and written will be essential.

If you would like further information please contact Ravi Basi, Deputy Chief Finance Officer on [email protected]

The Post of Senior Contract Manager is responsible for the contact management and negotiation of a portfolio of contracts on behalf of South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) and George Eliot NHS Trust (GEH).

This is a senior leadership role within the health community and the post holder will be accountable for ensuring the appropriate level of scrutiny of contracts to drive performance and support the provision of monthly reports for commissioners.

To provide the main interface for both Trusts with CCGs on Contracting queries ensuring compliance with all requirements of the contract. The portfolio of contracts will include Acute, Non Acute Contracts and Provider to Provider SLAs.

To be responsible for the management and performance of a small team of staff.

This work requires a significant degree of independent working as well as close working with senior professionals both within and outside the organisations.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ravi Basi Job title: Deputy Chief Finance Officer Email address: [email protected]