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Job requirements
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Planning Skills
Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes, develop project plans and allocate resource requirements accordingly.
- Analytical skills
Strategic thinking, including anticipating and resolving problems and analysing service performance to ensure targets are achieved.
- Management Skills
Ability to respond flexibly, manage competing priorities and work across multiple workstreams.
- Management Skills
Ability to diagnose resistance to change, influence attitudes and motivate individuals and groups.
- Communication skills
Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; negotiate with senior stakeholders; and present to large and influential groups, including patient groups.
- Communication skills
Ability to monitor and work with provider leads to ensure compliance with performance targets.
- Interpersonal Skills
You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times. You are respectful to others and listen to others. You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role. Professionalism and understanding difference is key.
- Skills and Abilities
Putting the long -term health, social care and well - being needs of the population first (“system first”). Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve excellence in everything we do in BSol. Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes. Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times. Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective.
- Autonomy and Freedom to Act
Ability to use initiative, determine relevant actions and make recommendations to the sponsor or manager to improve delivery and policy compliance.
- Autonomy and Freedom to Act
Experience of researching best practice across public, private and international settings and advising on relevant implementation.
- Financial and Physical Resources
Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas. Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Educated to master’s level or significant experience in a senior NHS managerial role in a specialist area relevant to the job description.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Commissioning experience and competencies across the commissioning cycle.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Planning Skills
Ability to develop strategies for integrated pathway across programme area.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Experience of collaborative commissioning. Experience working in mental health inpatient settings and/or mental rehabilitation services. Membership of a relevant professional body.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Provider Collaborative's Commissioning and Transformation Team. This role is predominantly working with Urgent and Emergency Care Services, transforming existing provision and supporting alternatives to admission.
The post holder will lead on strategy, planning, commissioning and performance management within a life course approach to mental health and will ideally demonstrate a level of subject matter expertise within Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care.
The ideal candidate will work in a collaborative manner drawing upon diverse perspectives including those of people who use and deliver services. Most importantly they will be committed to supporting improvements in mental health across the population of Birmingham and Solihull.
Main duties of the job
- Identifying and addressing key risks and areas of over/under performance in relation to mental health contracts.
- Ensuring that the value of joint commissioning is realised and understood by all key stakeholders.
- Leading and supporting the implementation of key elements of the joint commissioning strategies for mental health.
- Leading business planning and maintaining systems that enable the commissioning team to respond effectively to policy and contractual changes, including new provider models, GP commissioning and personal budgets.
- Undertaking specific scoping work within the commissioning team to inform future planning and commissioning.
- Driving transformation and value for money across planning, commissioning and service delivery.
- Building the subject-matter expertise and technical capability needed for effective service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to be on site across Birmingham and Solihull at least one day a week to attend team meetings and events. We invite applications from candidates who are genuinely interested in proceeding to interview. It is advised that your application is submitted promptly, as the vacancy may close early if a number of suitable applications has been received.
As part of the interview, candidates will be asked to deliver a 10-minute presentation – details of the presentation will be shared beforehand.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
This role gives the opportunity for hybrid working and you will typically be asked to work in a hybrid way, working from your home and also from Trust HQ The Uffculme Centre, or any other agreed site.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Band 8a Commissioning Manager with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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